Recruitment and Onboarding Coordinator

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Description:
About the Role

The Recruitment & Onboarding Coordinator provides essential operational and administrative support across the full recruitment and onboarding lifecycle. From initial candidate engagement through to a successful first day, you’ll ensure candidates feel informed, supported, and welcomed, while making sure compliance requirements are met.

Because we’re a small team, you’ll have the opportunity to get involved in a wide range of activities, broaden your knowledge, and develop new skills. This is a varied role that suits someone who enjoys juggling priorities and working collaboratively.

Key Responsibilities

Supporting recruitment activity from candidate application through to onboarding
Managing the central email inbox for any recruitment queries
Acting as a key point of contact for candidates, providing a positive and professional experience
Coordinating pre-employment checks and ensuring compliance requirements are met
Supporting onboarding processes to ensure a consistent and welcoming Day 1 experience
Working closely with colleagues across the organisation to support recruitment needs

Why join Wellington Free Ambulance

Wellington Free Ambulance’s vision is to be a trusted and reliable ambulance service that provides excellence in emergency response and connected services to move our communities to better health.

We’re the only emergency ambulance service for Greater Wellington and Wairarapa and proud of the place we hold in our communities, and the high-quality care that our people deliver every day. As well as providing emergency ambulance services, Wellington Free Ambulance also provides a Patient Transfer Service that transports patients to and from scheduled healthcare appointments, a Clinical Communications Centre answering 111 calls, and Event Medical support to a huge number of community, sporting and festival events. We also teach our communities lifesaving CPR skills through The Lloyd Morrison Foundation Heartbeat Programme.

Wellington Free Ambulance has been described as having a boutique feel due to the specific region we serve. Our region covers an area from Cook Strait in the south to just north of Waikanae around Peka Peka on the Kāpiti Coast. In the Wairarapa, our area goes as far north as Mt Bruce. In total, around 500,000 people call our region home. Thanks to our boutique feel, when you join you become part of our whānau and really do make a huge impact on our communities!

Wellington Free Ambulance is committed to building an inclusive workforce with a focus on equity, diversity and inclusion to provide a stronger internal and external culture and to improve our organisational performance. We value and embrace differences in all people and encourage diverse ways of thinking and being.

Skills and Experiences:
Who we are looking for

Essential Skills & Experience

Good working knowledge of the MS Office Suite
Experience working in a customer service environment
A genuine interest in recruitment
Excellent time management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities

Desirable Skills & Experience

Experience coordinating bulk recruitment activity
Experience organising events, such as onboarding sessions for large groups

Applications Close: 19 February 2026
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Questions? Email us: recruitment@wfa.org.nz