Co|creator | Content Writer |20 hours per week

We’ve got great news. There’s a baby on the way! That means there’s an opportunity for you to join our team (and not on a maternity contract)! After our team member has had some special time with their new family member they plan to return to the paid workforce in a part time capacity. We have split their current full-time role into two part time roles to make this happen. They will return as Co-creator - Marketing, Communications & Projects, and you could be our new Co-creator - Content Writer.

The Eldernet Group is New Zealand’s leading information provider about services for older people and has the lofty goal of making life better for them. A lot of this involves providing information via our websites, such as eldernet.co.nz and retirementvillages.co.nz, and the hardcopy, region-specific, handbook Where from here He ara whakamua. These platforms are designed to support older people (and those supporting them) to make well-informed decisions about what’s coming next.

This role has two main components:

First, constantly learning as much as possible about our (ever-changing) older people - their experiences, the policies that impact on them, their interactions with the health and welfare system, research for them and about them etc. via a wide variety of channels…

And then…

Using this intel to build a fantastic, timely and accurate knowledge of what’s happening now and what’s likely to happen in the future of ageing and putting that into words.

You will then work collaboratively with the Co-Creator Marketing, Communications & Projects to create amazing resources which can be used across our platforms for all those involved in the sector and most importantly for seniors themselves.

We can promise your working day will never be boring! This role requires someone who can manage multiple projects at various levels. It’s not multi-tasking, but skilled ‘juggling’ – keeping deadlines, check-ins and timelines in mind, whilst ensuring a constant delivery through multiple workstreams on multiple platforms. But most importantly you need to be able to work in a true role-sharing capacity – leveraging the skills and experience you bring whilst maximising the awesomeness of your co-worker.

We are casting the net wide for this role as we want to find someone with a real passion for older people, the retirement and aged care sector and the passion to make a meaningful difference to older people’s lives – we want to continue to lead from the front!

Our ideal candidate will have:

An interest or knowledge of the ‘older persons’ journey (including retirement villages, community-based support services, the health sector and aged care) and most importantly a passion to share what’s amazing about it, a willingness to disrupt the stuff that’s not, a desire to connect and collaborate with others and an endless desire to make it better.