Volunteer Application

Apply to join Tauranga Land Search and Rescue.

Application details

The following information is required to consider your application to join Tauranga Land Search and Rescue. Fields marked * are required.

Legal last name

Legal first name

Preferred name

Email

Mobile phone

Business phone

Home phone

Role for which you are applying

Relevant experience for search and rescue role

Do you have any medical issues which may affect your ability to safely perform your intended search and rescue role?

Yes
No

If there is a possibility it could be a yes, you should seek medical advice before responding.

Training, operational and administrative details

This information is not required to assess your application, but will be needed for training, operational and administrative reasons if your application is successful. You may leave it blank for now — the minimum required for registration with Land Search and Rescue is marked *.

Physical address

Postcode

Date of birth

Postal address (if different)

Postal postcode

Gender

Emergency contact

Emergency contact phone

Emergency contact physical address

Are you registered with NZQA?

What is your NZQA number?

Privacy Statement

I have read and accept the Privacy Statement, and I authorise any information given to be used as described. *

Privacy Statement

By providing this information you are providing it to Tauranga Land Search and Rescue Incorporated (“Tauranga LandSAR”), New Zealand Land Search and Rescue Inc (“NZ LandSAR”) and New Zealand Land Search and Rescue Training (“LandSAR Training”).

We (Tauranga LandSAR, NZ LandSAR and LandSAR Training) collect personal information from you, including information about your:

Name, date of birth, ethnicity, gender, nationality, citizenship, address, telephone numbers, email address
Employment status
Emergency contact details
NZQA details
ID photo

We collect your personal information to:

Communicate with you via email and phone
Comply with legislation, such as the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 and the Education Act 1989
Maintain operational readiness
Register and enrol for courses and examinations
Record your attendance and progress
Analyse demographics to inform stakeholders
Health and safety purposes
Include on an ID card

Besides our staff, we share this information with:

Other education agencies such as the Ministry of Education and the NZ Qualifications Authority (NZQA), in order to meet Land Search and Rescue’s statutory obligations to provide the Secretary of Education with information under Sections 225 and 226 of the Education Act 1989
Land Search and Rescue’s member assistance programme providers, in the event of being involved in an event that triggers Wellbeing Safety Checks
NZSAR, in order to analyse the SAR sector (only age, gender and ethnicity is shared with NZSAR and it is anonymised)
NZ Police, Department of Justice, Work and Income NZ and the Accident Compensation Corporation, if they demonstrate a statutory right to obtain it

If you choose not to enter the mandatory information, we’ll be unable to process your application.

Land Search and Rescue may send volunteers individual news, information, and updates via email.

We keep your information safe by storing it securely (online and in hard copy). Tauranga LandSAR committee members and NZ LandSAR staff are the only persons with access to it.

We keep your information for the duration of your membership, at which point we destroy it by deleting your records. However, your student outcomes (pass/fail etc) and attendance for LandSAR Training courses will be retained as required by the Education and Training Act 2020, due to LandSAR Training being a Private Training Establishment.

It is important we keep accurate records about you. Please notify your Group Secretary (secretary@taurangalandsar.org.nz) and your Group and Volunteer Support staff if any of your details change.

You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information, or to have it corrected, please contact your Group Secretary (secretary@taurangalandsar.org.nz) for information held by the group, and contact your Group and Volunteer Support staff or email privacy@landsar.org.nz for information held by NZ LandSAR or LandSAR Training.

We also require you to complete a New Zealand Police Vetting Service Request and Consent Form. This will be provided separately. You will not be accepted to Land Search and Rescue without consenting to the Police Vetting process.

At times, your photo may be taken during training, on a SAREX or a SAROP. These photos may be used or published by Tauranga LandSAR and NZ LandSAR in publicity material, the media and online. You may request that your photos are not used or published by Tauranga LandSAR and NZ LandSAR, however we are unable to control individuals’ actions or those of other groups. You are requested to inform photographers if you do not want your photo taken or published.

If you take photos and there is a possibility that they may be published by your group or by NZ LandSAR, you should ask the people if they are ok with them being shared or published by your group and/or by NZ LandSAR.