Visual Designer | Wellington City

Job Description

Job title: Visual Designer

Role type: Full-time, 12 month fixed-term

Location: Wellington

Salary band & range: General Salary Range F: $76,463 to $89,215 depending on skills and experience

About the Role - Kōrero mō te Tūranga

As part of our Learning & Development (L&D) team, you'll bring your visual design expertise to the table. Advise on, and create, engaging impactful visuals that enhance learning. Your work is grounded in best practices for visual design, interactivity, accessibility, and usability.

MPI is a great place to work with a variety of projects supporting positive outcomes for New Zealand. Our learning initiatives range from large-scale learning programs to focused, tailored solutions. These include facilitated workshops, videos, e-learning modules, webinars, and learner support materials such as user guides. We support all areas of the business, offering a rich variety of topics, audiences, and challenges.

You'll collaborate closely with colleagues across L&D, Organisational Development, and business units to develop high-quality learning visuals using a variety of tools and approaches. Your ability to be creative within an organisations style guide is imperative. Contribute to a supportive team culture, helping with the small things that ensure we all succeed together.

Focus on graphical elements, visual treatments and the look and feel of learning within MPI. Create illustrations and icons as well as avatar character creation. Your strong graphic design skills and potential background in education and training will be showcased through what makes good accessibility.

Desirable, but not necessary are video and/or animation skills.

About You - Mōu

You love to apply your visual design expertise to craft engaging visual solutions that enhance performance across the Ministry for Primary Industries. You are skilled in a range of digital design tools and technologies, with strong proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud.

Your approach is grounded in accessibility and user experience (UX) best practices, and you'll be driven by a commitment to continuous improvement.

Collaboration is key in our team—you'll work closely with L&D colleagues to brainstorm ideas and deliver high-value solutions to our customers. Your keen eye for detail and experience with quality assurance processes and testing techniques will ensure your work meets the highest standards.

If you come from a learning background and have a passion for creating innovative visuals that support learning, this role is a great fit for you. Our L&D team thrives on teamwork, creativity, and shared success.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A high level of expertise in Adobe CC, (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Premier Pro).
• An eye and passion for design, high attention to detail and the ability to craft quality deliverables.
• Experience in developing visual design for digital learning and print artefacts including workbooks, posters, infographics, diagrams, templates, and campaign material for both internal and external audiences.
• Demonstrable relationship-building and interpersonal skills, with the ability to exercise diplomacy and discretion.
• Understanding of Māori culture and cultural awareness as well as a willingness to learn and grow in this space.
• Likely experienced working in the public sector and preferably worked within the L&D space.

You do not need to meet all of the role requirements to apply. We offer a breadth of development and learning opportunities and will welcome an application if you think you could make a great fit.

About the Team - Mō tō mātou Rōpū

We're a dynamic team with a fantastic culture, passionate about delivering innovative solutions across a wide range of business areas—including fisheries, food safety, agriculture and investments, forestry, and biosecurity. We thrive on creativity, collaboration, and a genuine sense of support, backed by a caring leadership team. While most of us are based in Wellington, we also have team members in Auckland and Christchurch, making us a connected and inclusive bunch.

About MPI - Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua

Our role includes seizing export opportunities for our food and fibre sector, improving sector productivity, ensuring the food we produce is safe, increasing sustainable resource use, and protecting New Zealand from biological risk.

Benefits of working at MPI - Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua

• Ability to purchase extra annual leave
• Annual Wellness payment
• Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake?
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.

We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes, and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce. Please also attach a link to your portfolio.

To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.

Applications close at 11.59pm 4 August 2025

If you have any questions about the role, please email Sophie.Hallett@mpi.govt.nz 

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