Director of Campaigns

2 weeks ago

Carlton, Victoria, Australia Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Full time $70,000 - $120,000 per year

Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa: The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is the lead professional union for nurses. Our job and responsibility is to represent more than 60,000 nurses, midwives, students, kaimahi hauora, and health workers in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. We represent the interests of nurses on professional and employment related matters. We are affiliated to the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU). NZNO embraces Te Tiriti o Waitangi and works to improve the health status of all people of Aotearoa/New Zealand through participation in health and social policy development.

Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa: The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is looking for a Director of Campaigns to lead and oversee the direction, design, and implementation of our campaigns.

We are looking for an experienced leader with demonstrated success in designing and leading comprehensive campaigns.

Our campaigns run across a wide range of subject matter – industrial, bargaining, resourcing, political and professional issues. These campaigns involve a wide range of strategies and tactics that work across both the private and public sectors. These include bargaining, digital, communications, legal, capital, political, community as well as the successful integration of organising strategies to continually grow our membership, member activism and leadership.

The role will build our campaign team and campaigning in all sectors and be responsible for the design of whole of union campaigns and sector strategies and campaigns.

The role is part of the senior leadership team and you would be expected to contribute strategies and tactics across all aspects of our work.

This role has a significant management and mentoring function, and will lead a team with industrial, campaigning, research, bargaining and organising expertise.

The successful candidate will have the following –

  • Strong campaign leadership skills and knowledge
  • A track record of campaign leadership
  • An ability to demonstrate the key organising frameworks
  • Commitment to honouring te Tiriti o Waitangi and ensuring the outcomes of Te Tino Rangatiratanga are met within our organising campaigns
  • Strong union values
  • Strong planning skills and ability to deliver national and sectoral campaign plans
  • A strong focus on winning
  • Some experience in digital campaigning
  • Experience in union campaigning
  • An ability to work with and develop delegates and staff
  • An ability to travel regularly

This full time position is part of national senior leadership team, based in Wellington, New Zealand.

The successful candidate will be offered a package based on skills and experience.

If you want to be our Director of Campaigns and believe you have the requisite campaign leadership skills and knowledge then please email your application and curriculum vitae to Heather Sander at by
Wednesday 24 September 2025
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