Event Sustainability Manager - Part Time

Nonstop Solutions works with events across Aotearoa to reduce and divert waste from landfill and improve how resources are managed. This is an onsite, operational role. You'll be responsible for making sure our waste minimisation systems actually work when an event is underway, leading our crews, managing waste, solving problems and working directly with event organisers, suppliers and venue teams. And you must be comfortable getting your hands dirty. Regardless of the size or type of event, waste is a core part of the job. You'll be working around bins, often outdoors in all elements and hand sorting waste.

- Lead Nonstop teams onsite across events of varying sizes and complexity
- Start by leading smaller events and teams, with opportunities to take on larger and more complex events as your capability develops
- Work directly onsite with event organisers, venues, suppliers, contractors and other stakeholders where required
- Deliver waste management and minimisation systems onsite
- Monitor waste streams, bin stations, sorting HQ's and contamination
- Get hands-on with waste when required, this is an operational role, not a desk job
- Troubleshoot issues quickly and make practical decisions onsite
- Coordinate staff, equipment, collections and other event sustainability requirements
- Collect and be across the collection of waste and sustainability data
- Support the development and delivery of Waste Management and Minimisation Plans
- Contribute to post-event reporting and client debriefs
- Identify ways to improve our systems and delivery from event to event

No experience needed — full training provided.
- A full New Zealand driver's licence
- Comfortability driving larger class 1 vehicles (such as work vans)
- Willingness and ability to travel throughout the Greater Wellington region and, when required, to events elsewhere in New Zealand
- Availability for weekend, early morning and evening event work throughout the October - April season
- The ability to work independently and make decisions onsite
- A confident leader who can direct people clearly and fairly
- Comfortable taking responsibility for an operation and making decisions independently
- Calm and practical when things go wrong
- Comfortable working in a busy, physical and messy environment
- Willing to get involved in the physical work rather than standing back from it
- Organised and able to keep track of multiple moving parts
- A clear communicator who can work with everyone from casual event staff to senior event organisers
- Reliable and able to follow through on what you say you'll do
- Flexible about where the work takes you

- This is a role where you will start by learning the operation from the ground up, including the waste streams
- From there, the opportunity is to take on larger events, larger teams and more responsibility as your skills develop
- You will be fully supported with training and great people onsite