Kaupapa Māori

Our Kaupapa Māori team are integral to providing a Te Ao Maori view into our organisation and ensuring a commitment to upholding the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. They build and nurture strong relationships with mana whenua to ensure the quality of our mahi.

Learning

The Learning team design and deliver learning programmes for, and alongside, children and young people. They work to design and deliver best-practice experiences that hold broad appeal, using multiple forms of communication and engagement to spark curiosity, stimulate creativity and enhance the local curriculum. The team embraces our journey of te ao Māori, bringing a Māori dimension to everything they do.

Taonga Māori

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By utilising and embedding learning world class technical, lighting, and audio-visual advances to enhance exhibitions across our sites; the Exhibitions team are instrumental in bringing a passion for helping deliver engaging, innovative and creative exhibitions for our audiences. Exhibitions bring art to life through constructing and maintaining our spaces in a unique way to fit art and cultural expression within the transformative space.

Our City Gallery & Content team are responsible for providing art direction across Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington sites, specifically leading the curatorial vision of Te Whare Toi City Gallery Wellington.  They bring passion for the arts and create remarkable cultural experiences for our visitors.

The team plays a pivotal role in shaping the cultural and scientific landscape of our sites. The Collections team specifically oversee the care, preservation and documentation of collection items and exhibition content.

People and Culture

The People and Culture team are responsible for driving people-oriented success across all aspects of the employee experience. The team work effectively to lead projects and improvements in the people and culture space at Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington.

Finance

The Finance team support the business across all financial responsibilities. They are at the heart of all financial processes and accounting procedures. Our kaimahi manage and control our financial stability for internal and external stakeholders.

Marketing

The Marketing team implement marketing and communication strategies that support Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington’s vision and purpose. They support the organisation by developing and implementing marketing strategies, including writing, editing, designing, events and distributing promotional material to our audiences.

Communications

The Communications team develops our internal and external communications strategies as well as the delivery of communications advice for internal and external audiences, including media.  

Media engagement is a key communications function. The team shape the profile and reputation of Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington through ongoing proactive communications opportunities; create and tell compelling stories that connect audiences with the brand’s purpose; drive media relations across an extensive network of contacts, with a focus on arts, news and influencers; maintain an overview of all relevant media activity, including key media events, interviews and onsite filming.

Visitor Experience

Our Visitor Experience team are the welcoming faces of our charitable organisation.  They deliver exceptional experiences in hospitality, tour guidance, and support for retail and commercial endeavors throughout our Wheako Pōneke Experience Wellington venues. They are our storytellers, captivating audiences from the moment they step into any of our Pōneke sites. This team shares insights with manuhiri about our exhibitions, programmes, events, and activities with high standards of professionalism.

Commercial

The Commerical team create and manage our retail and venue hire experience for manuhiri. Each site has a unique story to tell, and our stores provide unique pieces of Pōneke that our audiences can take back home with them. The team work closely with both internal and external teams to provide revenue generating products that help our organisation to continue to provide art and cultural experiences to Pōneke.

Fundraising

Fundraising influence and drive a culture of fundraising and philanthropy across our charitable organisation. They help our kaimahi understand the importance of fundraising, the importance of donors and funders, their needs and motivations and how their role supports great fundraising. Our internal culture of fundraising is focused on working together and sharing stories, undertaking research on funders and potential partners, their areas of focus and grant applications. They strive to find external stakeholders that are able to keep Wheako Pōneke running amazing experiences.

Public Programmes

Our Public Programmes team works together within and across teams internally and externally to develop and deliver a vibrant public programme of talks, lectures, performances, workshops and events, and community partnerships that draws in diverse audiences to understand, enjoy, and form a deeper appreciation of our experiences. We bring a te ao Māori dimension to everything we do.