Hamish Stuart

Strategic communications and stakeholder engagement

Wellington, New Zealand

About

I'm a communications generalist and delivery specialist​. * Content: From tag line to long-form. Content marketing, public relations, digital, print. All over it. * Strategy: Adaptive game plans, that survive first contact with the audience. * Analysis: Because we can only do things better if we know what we've done already. I like making things work, with people who want things to work better.

Experience

  • Strategic Advisor - Engagement and Impact at ERO Education Evaluation Centre | Te Ihuwaka
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Strategic Communications Advisor at Tourism Industry Aotearoa
    Aug 2024 - Feb 2025 · 7 mos

    • Delivering communications for the industry’s peak business association, promoting alignment and messaging following the strategy, Tourism 2050: A Blueprint for Impact. • Creating all content, including CE and Board Chair speeches, to support the organisation’s major events, the Tourism Summit and New Zealand Tourism Awards. • Managing proactive and responsive media, including releases, to encourage a positive and informed understanding of the industry and its goals.

  • Senior Communications Advisor - Schools Payroll Remediation at Ministry of Education of New Zealand
    Apr 2023 - Dec 2023 · 9 mos

    • Delivering communications for the Holidays Act Remediation payments made to employees paid through the New Zealand Schools Payroll. • Developing a secure, personalised solution to contact each recipient and let them know how much they would be receiving. • Providing all public-facing Holidays Act-related content for reporting, business planning and other Ministry and legislative purposes.

  • Communications and Engagement Lead at New Zealand Productivity Commission
    Sep 2022 - Dec 2022 · 4 mos

    • Leading communications and media engagement for the “Fair Chance for All” interim report, an inquiry addressing persistent disadvantage in New Zealand. • Developing the organisation’s Communications and Engagement strategic plan, and the implementation plan for this. • Producing the Productivity Commission’s Annual Report 2022-23. • Planning communications and engagement for an inquiry into supply chain disruption.

  • Senior Communications and Engagement Advisor at New Zealand Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga
    Mar 2022 - Sep 2022 · 7 mos

    • Leading all communications and media engagement for Rautaki Hanganga o Aotearoa, the New Zealand Infrastructure Strategy 2022-2052, from launch to government response. • Leading communications and engagement for the organisation’s component of the national adaptation plan, New Zealand’s response to climate change. • Organising stakeholder and sector engagement for the scoping phase of the Infrastructure National Planning Framework programme, part of the Resource Management Act reform.