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If you are passionate about making a difference to your community, Environment Southland can offer you challenging and interesting work, a fun and supportive team culture, work-life balance and career development as well as the fantastic Southland lifestyle.
This position will support Environment Southland's maritime and harbour responsibilities across coastal and inland waterways. The role helps develop, implement and review procedures, practices and safety management systems.
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6932780 | Closing Date: 11 Oct 2026
Information Management Assistant
This role provides practical experience within a professional information management environment and is ideal for a student considering a career in records, archives, information governance, or information management
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6930767 | Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026
Environmental Monitoring Assistant
The focus of the role will be supporting our recreational bathing water quality monitoring programme, collecting samples from rivers and coastal sites across Southland. You'll also support other monitoring programmes and project work.
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6930689 | Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026
Information and Technology GIS Assistant
This role provides practical experience within a regional council GIS environment and is ideal for a student considering a career in regional councils or GIS.
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6930686 | Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026
This role is a great introduction to the world of water resource sciences and a way to get to know the wonderful rivers and streams of the Southland Region.
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6930671 | Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026
As a Maritime Assistant, you will support our maritime team by engaging with the public, promoting safe boating and gathering information from water users.
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6930665 | Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026
The role involves office based tasks and the opportunity to partake in field and possibly dive work across Murihiku Southland, including Fiordland and Rakiura.
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6930662 | Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026
Resilient Infrastructure Research Assistant x4
This is a fantastic chance to experience cross-disciplinary work carried out by local government, where you will gain exposure to council functions like natural hazards, asset management, river operations work, social sciences and strategic planning.
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6930659 | Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026
This role is a great first step into the world of catchment operations and flood risk asset management.
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6930656 | Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026
Emergency Management Southland (EMS) GIS Project Assistant
You'll work with the EMS team to research, gather, and map key information, developing new GIS layers and improving existing ones. This is a hands-on opportunity to apply your GIS skills to real-world challenges while contributing to community resilience.
Location: Invercargill | Job ID: 6930632 | Closing Date: 27 Sep 2026