Emerging Professionals Programme – Te Reanga Pito Mata

Our Emerging Professionals – Te Reanga Pito Mata programme brings some of the country’s top emerging talent together with the best people from across the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi. We offer a unique opportunity for people to go places you never expected within our organisation to help deliver our customer promise – a land transport system connecting people, products, and places for a thriving Aotearoa.

Our work spans everything from helping a new driver to complete their licence application to participating in discussions on how cities plan and fund their transport needs, from promoting safer vehicles to reducing deaths and serious injuries to investing in infrastructure.

What the programme offers

As an Emerging Professional, you'll benefit from:

• a permanent position with NZTA
• a two-year rotational programme focusing on the area that you have studied
• opportunities to contribute to meaningful work that makes a real difference to New Zealand
• access to ongoing learning and development opportunities that will set you up for the future
• a deeper understanding of how a complex public sector organisation operates
• support through a mentoring programme and monthly communities of learning.

Who we're looking for

We’re looking for adaptive learners that are early in career who can think outside the box and pick things up quickly to join our Emerging Professionals – Te Reanga Pito Mata programme. It’s not so much about what you look like on paper - we’re after people who offer diversity of thought when it comes to developing solutions to keep New Zealand moving.

If you’ve completed studies or are in the process of completing your studies at a bachelor level or higher in any of the below areas, we would like to hear from you.

We'll be looking for those who have studied and are interested in:

• civil, construction or environmental engineering
• data analytics, data science, statistics or research
• digital and technology
• business or policy
• media, communications or political science
• project management
• property.

Eligibility

To join the programme, you must be:

• in your final year of tertiary study or within your first three years of your professional career and have studied in one of the above-mentioned areas
• legally able to work in New Zealand for the full duration of the programme (international students must provide evidence).

Interested in joining?

Recruitment process for our engineering and project management streams has now closed.

However, if you are interested in joining via one of our other streams, express your interest and we will be in touch once we advertise our next tranche:

Express your interest in the Emerging Professionals Programme – Te Reanga Pito Mata(external link)