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The Organisation
The Transport Accident Investigation Commission's visionary goal is “No Repeat Accidents – Ever!”. In pursuit of this goal, the Commission (TAIC) inquires into significant transport accidents across the three modes of aviation, rail, and marine, with a view to avoiding similar occurrences in the future.
TAIC's multi-disciplinary teams investigate and analyse the circumstances of these occurrences, supporting the Commission to consider the facts, and make findings and recommendations to improve transport safety, rather than to ascribe blame.
Digital Channels Coordinator
- Support TAIC's digital publishing
- Apply your technical and visual digital channel skills
- 12 month fixed term and central Wellington based
A fabulous opportunity to use your digital expertise in supporting the delivery of our digital-first approach and assisting our content delivery and frameworks.
The role
This role will support TAIC’s work by converting investigation reports to digital format and working through our back catalogue of reports to get them online and accessible. As our digital go-to, you’ll develop digital style guides, image libraries, load content and prepare visual graphics and content to support our work. You’ll ensure that there’s consistency and an appropriate framework that supports a well-structured, easily navigated site that aligns with brand and copyright requirements.
Skills and experience
Our ideal candidate will have experience in digital publishing or content management and will have skills in visual content creation and editing.
In addition, you’ll have:
- solid understanding and experience in setting good digital structure and navigation
- in HTML and web publishing including working to accessibility and usability standards
- ability to post, monitor and report on social platforms
- in creating visual content such as infographics, diagrams and video
- to good process frameworks and adherence around copyright, image libraries and branding
- reporting skills including a strong understanding and application of Google Analytics
- high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- communication and collaboration skills
This role will give you the opportunity to collaborate with others in the organisation and drive the conversion of current and back-catalogue reports to digital format on a new website, and provide all round support by way of lifting the digital contribution to the team’s work, and putting appropriate guidelines in place for digital, copyright and visual library integrity.
Do note you may be exposed to accident reports and images that highlight evidential aspects from accident scenes, so a level of personal maturity and resilience is necessary.
In return you’ll be part of a caring and collaborative team and play an important part in supporting the movement to a Digital First approach for the delivery of the Website Upgrade project.
How to apply
For a full job description or to chat about this role, please contact TAIC's consultants at at Talent International:
- Jacaleen Williams on 021 732 996
- Nicci McQueen on 027 297 8705
To apply, please do so online at Seek.co.nz -- click the Apply button, attach your CV and an impressive cover letter outlining your suitability.
Applications close 5pm on Sunday 14 September 2025.
To be eligible for this role you must already have the right to live and work in New Zealand. For advice on obtaining a New Zealand work or residence visa visit www.immigration.govt.nz.
Senior Researcher
We're seeking a Senior Researcher/Analyst to provide robust research and analysis that will further inform our work and assist our focus on evidence-informed decision making.
A new role, this is a rare opportunity to seize the day, fully immerse yourself in the role and make it your own! Your work will have impact as it will directly integrate into our broader work from an investigation, safety system, and organisational perspective.
The role
You will provide a regular, systematic review of national and international information on transport safety, across our modes of interest (marine, rail and aviation). Your work will provide the team and Commission with developments, trends, behavioural patterns, risks, and international academic literature on transport safety.
Your findings will assist our work across investigations and the wider safety sphere, provide contextual information, identify safety themes, have input into broader and systemic safety issues, improve investigation analysis, and champion our evidence-informed decision making culture.
You'll also provide research and analysis organisationally, in terms of performance reporting, our influence on safety systems, and input into Commission responses to Ministerial and other State Sector agency requests.
Skills and experience
To be successful in this role, our ideal applicant will have:
- a research based degree in applied or social science
- experience in a research and analysis role
- a sound degree of competency in relational database manipulation using SQL, Power BI and other tools
- a passion for data analytics and data warehouse/lake development and improvement
- strong technical and business writing skills
- the ability to easily convey in plain language what might be complex and technical findings
- excellent attention to detail and time management skills.
- Ideally, you'll have experience from within the transport sector too.
NB: You may be exposed to accident reports, data and information which highlight evidential aspects from accident scenes, so a level of personal resilience and maturity is required.
You'll be joining a caring and collaborative team who have a one-team ethos, care deeply about their work, and are focused on influencing strong safety outcomes in line with the Commission's vision of 'no repeat accidents - ever!'
How to apply
For a full job description or to chat about this role, please contact our recruitment consultant at Talent International, Jacaleen Williams on 021 732 996.
To apply, please do so via seek.co.nz: click the Apply button and attach your CV and an impressive cover letter outlining your suitability.
Applications close 5pm on Sunday 14 September 2025.
Please do note, to be eligible for this role you must already have the right to live and work in New Zealand. For advice on obtaining a New Zealand work or residence visa visit www.immigration.govt.nz.
The accident investigation role - general
Accident investigation is specialised and time-critical work that requires broad proven expertise and skill, including:
- Excellent communication, both verbal and written
- Logical and analytical capability, with very strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to anticipate risk and identify mitigations
- Problem solving
- Project teamwork
- Relationship management
- Energy, diplomacy and tact.
The Accident Investigation team is small and close-knit. Investigators attend accident sites throughout New Zealand. They undertake thorough site examinations and evidence collection, review, research, and analyse the evidence, before drafting inquiry reports, findings and recommendations for consideration by the Commission. Each investigation process leads to a detailed final report outlining the findings and safety recommendations to the sector.
Accident investigation work is interesting and varied and involves engagement with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders. Investigators need to be able to work collaboratively and positively with like-minded professionals, and have high levels of diplomacy, tact, and professionalism, particularly when deployed to accident sites.
It can be demanding work that necessitates medical and physical fitness (accident sites can be anywhere) and resilience in stressful and emotionally difficult circumstances.
While relevant investigative qualifications are desirable, the successful candidate will undergo extensive, world class specialised training in accident investigation. This is part of TAIC's supportive and development-focused environment. A typical job description for a Transport Accident Investigation Commission Investigator is available in the Document Downloads box.
Investigator positions are based in Wellington, New Zealand, and involve travel and overnight stays.
Only people with the right to work in New Zealand may apply. For advice on obtaining a New Zealand work or residence visa visit www.immigration.govt.nz.