Contact person:
Dorothy Thomson
Phone:
06 7596060
Address:
Liardet Street
Private Bag 2025
New Plymouth
Email:
hr@npdc.govt.nz
Website:
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Dorothy Thomson
Phone:
06 7596060
Address:
Liardet Street
Private Bag 2025
New Plymouth
Email:
hr@npdc.govt.nz
Website:
Click here
You have the opportunity to make a valued contribution to your community and a real difference in people’s lives. To encourage promising people into the public sector, we are offering a number of tertiary scholarships to Taranaki locals who are studying full-time in areas relevant to the work we do.
We usually award scholarships in the following areas:
- Applied mathematics / statistics.
- Civil engineering.
- Curatorial studies.
- Finance / accounting.
- Geography.
- Parks / landscape / recreation management.
- IT / application development.
- Library studies.
- Planning.
- Policy development.
- Process engineering.
- Software engineering.
- Water and wastewater treatment.
For full details of these scholarships visit the New Plymouth District Council Wedsite.
INDUSTRIES
Transport, Logistics, Warehousing & Postal Services
Information Technology & Telecommunications
Finance, Insurance & Property Services
Engineering
Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Seafood & Mining
QUALIFYING CRITERIA
Candidates must:
- Consider themselves local to New Plymouth District and live in the district prior to beginning their qualification (may live outside district due to current study).
- Demonstrate an academic ability to perform well in working towards a qualification, but the selection committee shall have regard to other factors such as character, qualities of leadership and contribution to cultural and/or sporting activities.
- Be about to start, or already studying for, a qualification relevant to local government in the fields of instrumentation and electrical engineering, financial analysis, or policy development (social sciences and research).
- Be New Zealand citizens or have New Zealand permanent resident status.
You are bonded to work for up to 2 years on completing your study.
For more information visit the New Plymouth District Council Website.
CLOSING DATE
30-Sep-2010
MONETARY VALUE
Cost of fees for each year, 10 week holiday work each year.
Last Updated: 26 May 2010 14:18pm
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