Team Administrator

• Bring your coordination, organisation, people skills and financial acuity
• Support a busy national team doing varied work to enable NZs energy future
• Interesting, growing, and evolving sector, with critical NZ infrastructure

Our core purpose is to empower the energy future for New Zealand – a future that delivers a net-zero carbon economy and a reliable and secure electricity system.

Transpower owns and operates New Zealand’s National Grid – the high-voltage network that moves electricity from where it is generated to the distributors and lines companies who take it to towns, cities, homes, hospitals, and businesses across the country. As New Zealand electrifies more of its economy, and electricity demand increases, our work and how we achieve it becomes even more important.

About The Team

Our Grid Development division of : 200 engineering, technical and economic specialists, looks ahead to understand what New Zealand’s electricity network needs will be over the next 20 to 30 years. The team considers things like growing electricity demand, new generation, how the existing Grid can meet that need and what needs to change to remain reliable and fit for the future. It is thoughtful, long-term work that helps shape investment and infrastructure decisions for Aotearoa.

About The Opportunity – Due To Lateral Promotion

Located in our Wellington head office, this role provides highly effective and professional administration support to the Grid Development team. Varied and fast-paced, it involves anticipating needs, coordinating moving parts, and helping busy managers and specialists stay organised, connected and on track.

You will be involved in a broad mix of work, including:

• Coordinating meetings, workshops, and team logistics, including agendas, papers, minutes, room bookings, catering and technology setup.
• Supporting onboarding and offboarding, travel bookings, office coordination and general team administration.
• Providing financial administration support such as purchase orders, invoice processing, accruals, contract administration and budget information.
• Maintaining accurate records, filing, team information and shared resources across systems such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint and financial systems.
• Building positive working relationships with managers, administrators in other teams and our EA’s, internal teams, suppliers and other stakeholders. You’ll look for ways to improve workflows, keep things running smoothly and strengthen team effectiveness.

What will you bring?

A positive and solution focused approach! You enjoy variety, work well with multiple priorities, and take pride in delivering high-quality support. You won’t need to come from the electricity sector, but you will be curious, adaptable and confident in learning new systems, acronyms, and context.

Your CV and cover letter will demonstrate

• Proven experience in an administration, coordination or office support role supporting multiple managers and/or teams.
• Strong organisation skills, sound judgement, attention to detail and the ability to work at pace while managing expectations. You can context switch, spot issues early, follow through and have helped improve processes over time.
• Clear, professional written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative, customer-focused approach.
• Confidence using Microsoft Office applications and picking up unfamiliar tools quickly; experience with SharePoint and financial systems will be an advantage.

Join us at Transpower!

Aotearoa is powered by the people who work here. This is your opportunity to join us on a mission that affects all New Zealanders every day and will for generations to come.

With over 28 nationalities, our people bring diverse perspectives, knowledge, and experience which they love to share. We offer a supportive environment, meaningful work, flexible daily start and finish times for this office-based role, and a range of employee health and wellbeing benefits including generous insurance cover.

Next steps

To join a future-focused team doing important work for New Zealand, please review the position description and submit your application with a cover letter outlining your interest in the role. We’ll review applications as they arrive and may interview early to support handover.

Role closes Tuesday 7th July however we will review applications as they arise, and we may interview early to support handover.

Existing eligibility to work in New Zealand is required.