Gender Minorities Aotearoa is a national charity, which works to improve outcomes for transgender people of all ages across every aspect of their lives in Aotearoa.
As part of our core fund raising activities, we operate a social enterprise, Aunty Dana’s Op Shop.
The Op Shop Coordinator’s core duties are recruiting, training, and managing volunteers, and overseeing the daily operations of Aunty Dana’s Op Shop.
Where you’ll fit in
Aunty Dana’s Op Shop, 130 Riddiford street, Newtown, Wellington. You will have office facilities on Level 1 at the Gender Minorities Aotearoa office.
Work hours
20 hours per week, from 10am to 2pm weekdays.
Manager
Executive Director.
Direct reports
All op shop volunteers, Transporter.
Key responsibilities
The key responsibilities of the Op Shop Coordinator are recruiting, training, and managing volunteers, maintaining an upbeat, fun, and welcoming environment for volunteers and a welcoming and professional shop environment for customers, and overseeing the daily operations of Aunty Dana’s Op Shop.
Volunteer coordination
Recruit volunteers.
Train volunteers in customer service and general professionalism.
Develop and maintain rosters.
Arrange cover when a volunteer can’t come in.
Ensure there is a keyholder on each shift, keeping record of who has keys.
Deal with any issues as straightforwardly and simply as possible. When there are complex issues or conflicts, take them to the Executive Director.
Oversight of store
Be the primary contact for the store.
Ensure window displays are appropriate.
Maintain the store to a professional standard.
Organise cleaning and removal of trash.
Purchase consumables such as stationary, tags, rubbish bags, toilet paper, as needed.
Social media marketing.
Banking.
Floats and change orders.
Ensure the takings and floats are secure.
Manage the Eftpos system.
Stock rotation including labeling, rotation.
Ensure consistency of stock pickup and removal of old stock.
Promptly inform the Executive Director of signage issues, repairs needed, electrical or other issues.
Carry out other tasks as assigned.
Embedding Te Ao Māori
Embedding Te Ao Māori (te reo Māori, tikanga, kawa, Te Tiriti o Waitangi) into our work.
Building experience, knowledge, skills and capabilities to confidently engage with service users.
Health, safety and security
Ensure you understand, follow and implement all health, safety, security, and wellbeing policies and procedures as outlined in your employment agreement and the GMA Policy and Procedure Manual.
What you’ll bring with you
Lived experience as a transgender person, or meaningful experience working with transgender people.
A passion for social justice and equity.
Excellent time management skills.
Sensitivity and aggressive positivity when working with volunteers.
A willingness to ask questions and learn on the job.
Experience in managing volunteers and experience in retail would be an advantage.
Remuneration
We pay Living Wage rates.
How to apply
Send us an email at contact@genderminorities.com, put your cover letter in the body of your email, and attach your CV. Your application must be received by 10am on Monday 11 September. We will contact shortlisted applicants on Wednesday 13 September, and will interview for this position between 2pm and 5pm on Friday 15 September. All interviewees will be notified of the outcome on Weds 20 September.
Gender Minorities Aotearoa is a national charity, which works to improve outcomes for transgender people of all ages across every aspect of their lives in Aotearoa.
Our vision is for all takatāpui, transgender, and intersex people to be empowered by a full range of choices across all aspects of their lives, and to be able to participate fully in society.
Part of our work is carrying out peer support on an individual level with service users, in person as well as by phone, and email.
Where you’ll fit in
Gender Minorities Aotearoa drop in centre and office, level 1, 130 Riddiford street, Newtown, Wellington.
Work hours
16 hours per week, 10am-6pm Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Manager
Executive Director
Direct reports
None
Key responsibilities
The key responsibilities of a Peer Support Worker are exploring the issues which service users seek support with, and giving accurate, evidence based information to people seeking support.
Peer support
One to one peer support with service users – face to face, by phone, letter correspondence, and email.
Social media group moderation within work hours.
Supporting service users with the IPL clinic and other offerings.
Embedding Te Ao Māori
Embedding Te Ao Māori (te reo Māori, tikanga, kawa, Te Tiriti o Waitangi) into our work.
Building experience, knowledge, skills and capabilities to confidently engage with service users and their whānau.
Health, safety and security
Ensure you understand, follow and implement all health, safety, security, and wellbeing policies and procedures as outlined in your employment agreement and the GMA Policy and Procedure Manual.
What you’ll bring with you
A lived experience of being transgender.
Commitment to the vision of Gender Minorities Aotearoa.
Clear communication and good interpersonal skills, with the ability to relate to people from a range of cultures and backgrounds, and to exercise patience, diplomacy, and discretion.
Understanding of the broad social environment for transgender people.
Understanding of the health sector as it relates to transgender people.
Knowledge of how to access services, or ability to find out.
The ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, and also independently with minimal supervision.
Working knowledge of relevant legislation affecting transgender people’s wellbeing – particularly the Human Rights Act, Health and Disability Code would be an advantage.
Remuneration
We pay Living Wage rates.
How to apply
Send us an email at contact@genderminorities.com, put your cover letter in the body of your email, and attach your CV. Your application must be received by 10am on Monday 11 September. We will contact shortlisted applicants on Wednesday 13 September, and will interview for this position between 10am and 2pm on Friday 15 September. All interviewees will be notified of the outcome on Weds 20 September.
Gender Minorities Aotearoa is a national charity, which works to improve outcomes for transgender people of all ages across every aspect of their lives in Aotearoa.
Our vision is for all takatāpui, transgender, and intersex people to be empowered by a full range of choices across all aspects of their lives, and to be able to participate fully in society.
This requires a receptionist who can also carry out a degree of peer support with service users.
Where you’ll fit in
Gender Minorities Aotearoa drop in centre and office, level 1, 130 Riddiford street, Newtown, Wellington.
Work hours
32 hours per week, 10am-6pm Mondays through Thursdays.
Manager
Executive Director
Direct reports
None
Key responsibilities
The key responsibilities of the Receptionist are keeping the office clean and tidy, being the primary point of contact for service users, forwarding messages, keeping records, scheduling appointments and following up on these as necessary.
The peer support element of this role involves giving accurate, evidence based information to people seeking support.
Reception
Keep the reception inbox clear by responding to emails the day they are received, or forwarding them to the appropriate member of staff
Booking and following up appointments as per current systems
Keeping the office clean, tidy, and professional
Errands such as the purchase of printer ink and other office supplies.
Peer support
One to one peer support with service users – face to face, by phone, letter correspondence, and email.
Social media group moderation within work hours.
Supporting service users with the IPL clinic and other offerings.
Embedding Te Ao Māori
Embedding Te Ao Māori (te reo Māori, tikanga, kawa, Te Tiriti o Waitangi) into our work.
Building experience, knowledge, skills and capabilities to confidently engage with service users and their whānau.
Health, safety and security
Ensure you understand, follow and implement all health, safety, security, and wellbeing policies and procedures as outlined in your employment agreement and the GMA Policy and Procedure Manual.
What you’ll bring with you
A lived experience of being transgender.
Commitment to the vision of Gender Minorities Aotearoa.
Understanding of the broad social environment for transgender people.
Understanding of the health sector as it relates to transgender people.
Knowledge of how to access services, or ability to find out.
The ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, and also independently with minimal supervision.
Strong organisational ability.
Ability to use Google office systems and spreadsheets.
Clear communication and good interpersonal skills, with the ability to relate to people from a range of cultures and backgrounds, and to exercise patience, diplomacy, and discretion.
Working knowledge of relevant legislation affecting transgender people’s wellbeing – particularly the Human Rights Act, Health and Disability Code would be an advantage.
Remuneration
We pay Living Wage rates.
How to apply
Send us an email at contact@genderminorities.com, put your cover letter in the body of your email, and attach your CV. Your application must be received by 10am on Monday 11 September. We will contact shortlisted applicants on Wednesday 13 September, and will interview for this position between 10am and 2pm on Friday 15 September. All interviewees will be notified of the outcome on Weds 20 September.
The NZ Law Commission is examining whether the current wording of the Human Rights Act (1993) adequately protects people who are transgender (including non-binary), and people with innate variations of sex characteristics (including intersex people), and if not, what amendments should be made.
This project is called “Ia Tangata | A Review of the Protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristics.”
What the Human Rights Act covers
The Human Rights Act is an anti-discrimination law. It seeks to ensure that people in Aotearoa New Zealand are not unfairly subjected to different treatment – for example, when accessing education, employment, housing, goods and services, and public facilities. As well as setting anti-discrimination standards, the Human Rights Act explains how these standards will be monitored and enforced.
Key to the Human Rights Act is section 21, which lists “prohibited grounds of discrimination” (things like sex, religious belief, colour, race, disability and sexual orientation). The Human Rights Act sets out the circumstances in which it is unlawful to treat someone differently and worse than others based on one of those prohibited grounds.
It is not always unlawful to treat someone differently and worse than others based on a prohibited ground. For example:
The Human Rights Act does not cover the way people behave in truly private contexts. The Act generally only applies to private people and organisations when they engage in certain public-facing activities (such as being an employer or landlord).
The Human Rights Act distinguishes between differences in treatment that are justified and differences in treatment that are unjustified through a range of methods. This allows for competing rights and interests to be weighed.
For those who want to learn more about how the Human Rights Act operates, we have prepared a Beginners’ Guide. Te Kāhui Tika Tangata | Human Rights Commission also has information available on its website (tikatangata.org.nz).
– Law Commission, 2023
You can download the Law Commission Beginners’ Guide to the Human Rights Act (HRA) by clicking the button below.
The HRA is broadly considered to include, within the meaning of ‘sex’: transgender people (including non-binary people), and people with innate variations of sex characteristics (including intersex people). However, currently the HRA does not explicitly include any of the above groups. The absence of explicit inclusion may leave room for narrow or discriminatory interpretations.
Discrimination on these bases may already be prohibited by one or more of the current grounds listed in section 21 of the Human Rights Act although this has not yet been considered by a New Zealand court or tribunal. For example, the Government considers that the existing ground of “sex” covers discrimination against people who are transgender, non-binary and/or have innate variations of sex characteristics (although it considers the law could be clearer).
– Law Commission, 2023.
Note that while it “has not yet been considered by a New Zealand court or tribunal”, there was a precedent setting ruling by the Employment Relations Authority in 2016, which accepted that an employer who constructively dismissed a transgender woman for transitioning did so unlawfully.
Find out more and make a submission
There will be an opportunity for the public to submit their views in 2024. It will be important for the Law Commission to hear from transgender people (including non-binary people), people with innate variations of sex characteristics (including intersex people), and our supporters. We will publish more information, things to consider, and our submission during 2023-2024. You can follow our blog in the main menu for updates from us. You can also find out more and subscribe to updates from the Law Commission by clicking the button below.
Takatāpui, transgender, other rainbow young people are more likely to be involved with Oranga Tamariki, and spend time in the state care system, than the general population.
Over the past 2 years, we’ve worked with a number of rainbow organisations and advocates as part of a Community Design Team, facilitated by Point and Associates on behalf of Oranga Tamariki. We carried out research to discover what takatāpui and rainbow young people want Oranga Tamariki to know about their experiences of living in state care, and how they want the system to change.
The report, Making Ourselves Visible, launches 14 June 2023, and will be available on our website once it is launched.
Join the launch webinar
The launch webinar will be held 14 June 2023, from 12 noon to 1pm. You can register here.
The webinar will be led by care-experienced rainbow rangatahi and will include a panel discussion with members of the Community Design Team.
