Staff and volunteer managementTe whakahaere i ngā kaimahi me ngā kaitūao
Manage and train your museum’s staff and volunteers.
Managing staff and volunteers
These resources will help you with the legal aspects of employing and managing staff.
Employment relations
For information about employment relations, see the Employment New Zealand website.
Equal opportunities
Use the information and tools at the Diversity Works website to make the most of New Zealand’s increasingly diverse workforce. Learn how your organisation can recruit, retain, and motivate the people you need to be successful.
Fostering wellbeing
Following the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic, maintaining good mental health and arranging options for working flexibility and remotely are likely to be ongoing challenges for organisations. Below are some resources to help you develop good practises to maintain good mental health amongst your staff.
Fostering healthy relationships (Te Papa) (217.12 KB)
Flexible working (Te Papa) (845.90 KB)
Building positive relationships in the workplace (MOTAT) (703.61 KB)
Developing a volunteer programme
Use this guide from National Service Te Paerangi, to develop an effective volunteer programme.
Working with Volunteers - He Rauemi Resource Guide (3.82 MB)
More resources and templates for working with volunteers
Training
What skills do the people who work at your place need to develop? How do you find out? How do you plan to meet their needs? These guides, from National Services Te Paerangi, look at how to put together (and evaluate) a training plan for your museum.
Developing a Training Plan – He Rauemi Resource Guide (1.47 MB)
Training Evaluation – He Rauemi Resource Guide (843.68 KB)
Workshops
Museum workshops are available through National Services Te Paerangi.
National Services Te Paerangi workshops
Qualifications in museum and heritage studies
Undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications in museum studies are offered by Victoria University of Wellington, Massey University, and the University of Auckland.
Victoria University of Wellington: Museum and Heritage Studies
Massey University: Museum Studies
University of Auckland: Museums and Cultural Heritage
The National Certificate in Museum Practice is offered by industry training provider ServiceIQ.