Procurement graduates are placed in agencies across government, and receive support and training in procurement over a two-year programme.
The procurement graduate programme has been created to develop tomorrow’s procurement leaders. We need great communicators, passionate collaborators, big-picture thinkers and driven problem-solvers.
If you want to make a direct impact helping government agencies achieve their strategic and commercial outcomes and deliver value for New Zealanders, the procurement graduate programme is the one for you.
Applications are now closed for the 2023 intake.
We partner with a growing group of agencies to offer placements.
Some of the government agencies our graduates have had placements include:
We are open to students from a variety of degrees and tertiary backgrounds. You need to be a recent graduate, or a student in your final year of study in 2022 and have the right to live and work in New Zealand.
We are looking for talent who:
There are four stages to our selection process; you will only be progressed to the next stage should your application meet our predefined criterion. The selection stages are:
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For more information about the programme, email the graduate programme team.