Team NMIT benefits

NMIT is committed to environmental sustainability. We encourage you to consider using an alternative way to get to work other than using your car. If you plan to walk, run or cycle, there are showers and changing facilities available.

We also have a commitment to minimising waste in all its forms and encourage everyone to use the numerous recycling bins provided.

Academic and Business Support team members may access the Library Learning Centre(external link) on Campus, books, reference material, e-journals, e-books, Library databases and much more.  

Café Ake Ake on our Nelson Campus and Ginko Café on our Marlborough Campus offer a wide range of food and great coffee at student friendly prices. A food truck adds to the campus culture on the Richmond Campus.

Nelsons eBus has several different bus routes available - Check out their timetables.(external link)

Parking is free on-site with over 350 car parks available.

There are bike racks all over the campus. Shower facilities are also available in some buildings.

Each campus and most individual buildings have a shared space or kitchen area. Tea, coffee and milo are provided free of charge.

Te Toki Pakohe exists to offer support to Māori and Pacific Island team members and students at NMIT. The TTM team will be happy to assist with any issue you may have. 

Our student restaurant on the Nelson campus of NMIT focuses on practical, applied learning and gives our people and members of the public the opportunity to sample our students’ fare at very reasonable prices.

The Rata Room opens for lunch and evening dining at specified times throughout the year. Opening times are promoted online and throughout the campus.

Rata Room (external link)

Our Head Zone hairdressing salon offers a wide range of services including shampoo and cuts through to colours and perms. We also offer gift vouchers, loyalty cards and can offer advice on the wide range of salon-quality products we sell.

Head Zone(external link)

Our Beauty Zone salon offers a comprehensive selection of treatments, including facials, advanced skin treatments, hair removal, massage and brow and lash treatments.

Beauty Zone(external link)

Team members employed at a 0.3 proportion or higher are eligible for a discount on various courses and programmes offered by NMIT. This discount is also available to the partners and children (under 25 years) of the employee. The discount amount varies based on employment proportion, with full-time team members eligible for up to 90%. Conditions apply.

Discount Tuition Fees (staff) policy(external link)

Annual Leave

• Business Support team members are eligible for 21 days annual leave plus 3 Institute days between Christmas and New Year and 1 Education day over the Easter break.
• Academic team members are eligible for 5 annual leave and Teaching Academics are also eligible for 4 weeks discretionary leave.

Professional Development Leave

• Business Support team members are eligible for 5 days per year
• Academic team members are eligible for 10 days per year

Other Leave

• Sick – more generous than the Holidays Act
• Parental - up to 12 months
• Long Service - One week after each 5-year service block up to 20 years’ service (Business Support)
• Leave Without Pay - Considered on a case-by-case basis

Parental Leave Grant

Parental leave grant equivalent to 6 weeks pay (T & Cs apply).

KiwiSaver is available to eligible team members and some employment agreements provide for employer contributions on top of salary.

Our Performance Recognition Framework is designed to enhance effective working relationships between team members and their managers by encouraging open communication and feedback.

NMIT is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunity in the workplace. The EEO policy seeks to provide equal access and consideration in areas of recruitment, selection, promotion, conditions of employment and career development without regard to gender, national or ethnic origin, race, disability, age, colour, marital status, presence of bodily organisms, political beliefs, culture, religious belief, or sexual orientation which are irrelevant to the position.

Starting a new job can be both exciting and stressful. To help you settle in and become familiar with the various aspects of working with us we have an online induction ready for you. Your manager will also organise any area specific induction you might need.

All teaching staff above Tutorial Assistant level are required to gain NZCATT or equivalent. The first two papers (ATT501 and ATT502) are required for teaching staff as part of probationary requirements. This allows staff to progress within the ASM (Academic Staff Member) pay scale. The complete NZCATT qualification is required for a staff member to apply to progress from an ASM to a SASM (Senior Academic Staff Member).

If you don’t have a teaching related qualification when you join us, you will be required to undertake this training as part of your probation period. We will give you time off to do this.

If you have some study towards a teaching qualification, then you should discuss possible RPL (recognition for prior learning) with the Learning Facilitation Coach.

If you already have a full teaching qualification that was NMIT’s accepted teaching qualification in earlier years then you are automatically considered to have equivalency (CAT from NMIT or DTLT from Ara).

If you have a different full teaching or education related qualification then talk to your manager about requesting the Chief Executive to consider your qualifications, experience, and proven teaching skills for equivalency to the NMIT required teaching qualification. (Equivalency only applies in the context of NMIT’s requirements (e.g. salary progression).

In order for the Chief Executive to grant equivalency your manager needs to provide sufficient compelling evidence of your teaching ability.

NMIT team members are able to request flexible working conditions for both personal and academic/professional reasons.

Flexible work request(external link)

Employees may request a contribution to the maximum of $200 (gst inclusive) per annum towards their eye care.

All employees are offered a free flu vaccination each year.

Request voucher(external link)

NMIT offers team members access to confidential, appropriate professional/specialist assistance for a wide range of issues which may affect work performance.

 Southern Cross health insurance is available for you and your immediate family with a 8% discount on premiums through the NMIT group scheme.