Emerging Professionals Programme – Te Reanga Pito Mata

Our Emerging Professionals – Te Reanga Pito Mata programme brings some of the country’s top emerging talent together with the best people from across the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi. We offer a unique opportunity for people to go places you never expected within our organisation to help deliver our customer promise – a land transport system connecting people, products, and places for a thriving Aotearoa.

Our work spans everything from helping a new driver to complete their licence application to participating in discussions on how cities plan and fund their transport needs, from promoting safer vehicles to reducing deaths and serious injuries to investing in infrastructure.

What the programme offers

As an Emerging Professional, you'll benefit from:

• a permanent position with NZTA
• a two-year rotational programme focusing on the area that you have studied
• opportunities to contribute to meaningful work that makes a real difference to New Zealand
• access to ongoing learning and development opportunities that will set you up for the future
• a deeper understanding of how a complex public sector organisation operates
• support through a mentoring programme and monthly communities of learning.

Eligibility

To join the programme, you must be:

• in your final year of tertiary study or within your first three years of your professional career and have studied in one of the above-mentioned areas
• legally able to work in New Zealand for the full duration of the programme (international students must provide evidence).

Interested in joining in 2027?

The recruitment process for our engineering and project management streams have now closed.

However, if you are interested in joining in 2027, express your interest and we will be in touch early next year when we kick off recruitment:

Express your interest in the Emerging Professionals Programme – Te Reanga Pito Mata(external link)