Senior Project Coordinator | Wellington | Permanent
Date: 8 Jan 2026
Location: Wellington, NZ
Company: Ministry of Social Development
- Fast paced project environment with meaningful impact
- Hands-on coordination across multiple diverse service categories and stakeholder groups
- Variety, and room to grow
Help shape a high impact commissioning work programme by providing coordination support across the team.
About our team | Mō te tīma:
The Disability Support Services (DSS) Group is responsible for commissioning, funding, and stewarding high-quality services that support disabled people, their families, and whānau.
We’re building leadership and management capacity across our teams to deliver both change and business-as-usual effectively.
We work closely with providers, stakeholders, and communities to ensure services are fair, consistent, transparent and sustainable. With a strong focus on performance monitoring, data, and insights, we’re committed to continuous improvement and evidence-based decision-making.
It’s an exciting time to join DSS as we strengthen our systems and expand our capabilities.
We’re looking for passionate people to help us achieve our goals and make a meaningful impact.
About the role | Mō te tūnga:
As the Senior Project Coordinator in the Commissioning team you’ll provide senior coordination support across a complex commissioning programme, ensuring plans, records and events are well organised and actioned.
Working closely with Commissioning Leads and managers, you’ll keep timelines on track, information accurate, and follow ups clear so delivery stays on track and risk aware.
Key responsibilities include:
- Maintain accurate records across projects and workstreams, ensuring data integrity and audit readiness.
- Support Commissioning Leads to develop and maintain timelines for the wider commissioning work programme.
- Coordinate events and webinars, including logistics, collateral, hosting support, and capturing action points from meetings with clear owners and due dates.
- Prepare succinct programme updates, dashboards and packs, ensuring documentation is version controlled and quality assured.
- Track actions, risks, issues and dependencies, escalating where needed and keeping stakeholders aligned.
- Drive meeting cadence and coordination (agenda, invites, minutes, follow ups), and help continuously improve tools and processes.
We value diversity and welcome applications from disabled people and those who have lived experience with whānau, or the disability community.
Please contact us if there is any support that we can provide to ensure the recruitment process is accessible to you.
What you bring | Ōu pūmanawatanga:
- Attention to detail, with the ability to multitask and prioritise your workload effectively.
- A strong track record of providing strong coordination support across complex programmes of work.
- Excellent prioritisation, initiative, and resilience and comfort working under pressure and meeting deadlines.
- Excellent relationship management skills to establish, build and maintain respectful, effective working relationships with all stakeholders to accomplish goals.
- Strong and effective communication skills including written.
- Experience using Microsoft Excel and project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Planner, Smartsheet, or similar) in a comparable role.
- Ability to collaborate across the wider organisation to meet project requirements within timeframes.
Position Description | He Whakaahuatanga Tūnga:
A copy of the position description can be found here. Senior Project Coordinator, position description.
Salary | Utu-ā-tau: $68,660.00 - $83,003.00
Applications close | Ka kati ngā tono hei te: Friday 23 January 2026.
About us | Mō mātou:
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is a people-centred organisation. We’re in communities across the motu, working with partners to help New Zealanders be safe, strong and independent.
We provide social policy and advice to government and assistance, including income, employment and housing support to people of all ages, families, whānau and communities.
Our people are as diverse as the communities we serve. We care about the wellbeing and success of our people and provide a supportive and inclusive working environment where people can thrive and be who they are.
How to apply | Me pēhea te tuku tono:
To apply, click the 'Apply Now' button to upload your CV, cover letter and complete the online application form.
Note: Your cover letter will be a key part of our assessment process, so please highlight how your experience relates to the key responsibilities listed in the position description.
All applications must be made online. If this is not possible or if you have any queries, please contact us at jobs@msd.govt.nz
Internal MSD Employees – please apply through your myHR portal at work. This will ensure that your myHR employee profile is visible as internal candidate.
Joining us | Ko te hono mai:
Joining MSD means being part of a whānau that celebrates the diversity each individual represents.
We show manaaki, we care about the wellbeing and success of people and want everyone to thrive and be who they are in a supportive and inclusive working environment. We work together to make a difference for communities while doing the right thing with integrity. You can find out more about our values here.
If you have any support or accessibility requirements, we encourage you to tell us when you apply so we can assist you through the recruitment process.
