Inland Revenue
Inland Revenue Graduate Programs & Internships
Inland Revenue plays a critical role in improving the economic and social well-being of New Zealanders. We collect 80% of the Crown's revenue as well as collecting and disburse social support programme payments and provide the government with policy advice.
We are working to make sure:
- Inland Revenue is responsive in meeting the changing and increasing expectations of government and society
- we make it easy for customers to get it right and hard to get it wrong
- society has confidence that appropriate action will be taken against customers who do not comply
- increasingly, paying taxes is seen as contributing to society
- we are professional, approachable, effective and efficient.
Recruitment Process
As part of our application process we request applicants to upload:
- their CV
- their Cover letter
For our Graduate policy Role, we request a short sample of candidates' work that demonstrates their writing ability (e.g. an excerpt of an essay written for a university course) along with a complete academic transcript or a copy of an unofficial transcript if they have not yet graduated
Once you've applied for a role and have been notified that you're a shortlisted candidate we'll then invite you for an interview with the Hiring Manager.
All Inland Revenue's offers of employment depend on:
- a satisfactory criminal record and tax/child support compliance check
- a signed declaration of fidelity and secrecy acceptance of the Inland Revenue Code of Conduct the outcome of any review of non-appointment
Remuneration & Career Growth
Additional Compensation Benefits
Our Hauora Hub offers information and guidance to our people on all things health and wellbeing related. In addition to regularly updated events, podcasts, social challenges, helplines and support services, our Hauora Hub also offers a range of discounted health and wellbeing to our IR staff, including health insurance, gym memberships, and eye care, food and nutrition services and more.
Career Opportunities
Our performance approach, Whanake (meaning to grow and develop), gives our people a framework to support constructive kōrero with their leaders and key stakeholders.
At IR we role model a networked approach to working, meaning that you’ll have the opportunity to engage with (and learn from!) key stakeholders and subject matter experts from across the business. We pride ourselves on providing opportunities to learn and develop to all of our people. We are a capability-based organisation, which means that we assess our people for suitability based on how they demonstrate the capabilities that are required for their role – or the role that they are interested in moving to. We don’t look at things like tenure or years of experience! This means that our people can have control over their capability development and drive their progression opportunities in a supportive and encouraging environment.
To further support this, we have designed our 12 People Capabilities and a series of ‘IR Role Families’ which group together roles with similar capability requirements and outcomes. The purpose of this is to help you:
- understand the capabilities required in your role and what they look like in practice
- think about potential capability development opportunities and;
- support you to explore areas of interest and potential career pathways for you across our wider business
These tools mean that you have a way to understand what is expected of you, choose and focus on development activities that will provide you with the most value and achieve your career goals in a way that is tailored and specific to you.
Graduate Reviews
- There is a lot of flexibility in the hours you work…you are able to start early or leave later if you wish, as long as you get your work done.
- The people are really nice…everyone is very welcoming, helpful, and willing to give you the best opportunities possible.
- Graduates at IRD are given lots of opportunities to work on meaningful policy changes and are provided with lots of support in their learning and development.
- The culture here is great and there is little to no expectation to stay late/work overtime.
- The office is very nice and in a perfect location, 1 minute from Wellington train station…everyone has a standing desk so you can choose to stand if you wish.
- Busy periods and workloads really fluctuate. Some days you will be busy, and other days you will be trying to find work to do.
- The onboarding process could have been better, i.e., better contact with managers/leads before starting up.
- I will be in the 'grad' level for about 12-18 months before progressing.
- The air conditioning is cold most of the time at our workplace.
- Sometimes, communication about policy changes and plans takes time to filter through the different levels of the organization.