Membership
We have made some changes to the way we manage membership this year. Head to the section about this at the bottom of this page if you want to understand what has changed, and what information we collect for the members register.
Member benefits
A $400 discount to our conference Courage to Deliver, on 29-30th July (see here)
Preferential in-person access to our free events
GOVIS is exploring options for a members-only standards library, containing a range of ISO standards relevant to the work of our members. We are also exploring options for a members-only online discussion platform.
Apply for membership
To apply for membership, please complete the GOVIS membership application form here.
Anyone may apply to be a member of GOVIS provided they agree to support the purpose of GOVIS (see here), and agree to abide by the GOVIS constitution (see here) and the Public Service Commission's Code of Conduct for the Public Sector (see here).
An individual membership for the 2026 calendar year costs $70 NZD (including GST). Payment is not required if your employer has purchased an agency subscription on your behalf (see below). You may apply for membership now and pay later - but note that your membership will not be activated until we have received payment - either directly from yourself, or through your employer purchasing an agency subscription.
If you have any questions about GOVIS membership, you can contact us here: members@govis.org.nz
Purchase an agency subscription
Any central government organisation listed on the Public Service Commission website here may purchase an 'agency subscription' to GOVIS on behalf of their employees. This covers the cost of membership for any employee of that agency who applies to be a member. Note that:
Employees of an agency with a subscription to GOVIS must still apply as members to claim any membership benefits (as above)
This option is not available to non-public sector organisations, and does not cover contractors
An agency subscription for the 2026 calendar year costs $400 NZD (including GST). If you would like to purchase an agency subscription, please contact us here: treasurer@govis.org.nz
In your email, please nominate:
An agency contact - the primary contact for GOVIS at the agency
An agency representative - the person who will sign off on the decision to purchase an agency subscription
For each person, please provide their name, job title and contact email. GOVIS will occasionally contact them to share information about opportunities for GOVIS members, and to send reminders about the renewal of agency subscriptions.
Make a payment to GOVIS
You can make a payment to GOVIS through internet banking. Here are our details:
Bank: Westpac
Account number: 03-1537-0014802-00
Account name: GOVIS Incorporated
Reference: state 'membership' for an individual membership payment, or the name of your agency for an agency subscription
Code: state your last name
If you require a tax invoice or wish to raise a purchase order, please contact us here: treasurer@govis.org.nz
Does my agency already have a GOVIS subscription?
Below are the government agencies that supported GOVIS in 2025. We are currently contacting these organisations to offer them agency subscriptions under our new constitution, and will update this list as these are confirmed.
Agency name | Subscription paid for 2026? |
|---|---|
Central Agencies Shared Services | No |
Civil Aviation Authority | No |
Commerce Commission | No |
Department of Internal Affairs | No |
Education Review Office | No |
Electoral Commission | No |
Electricity Authority | No |
Environmental Protection Authority | No |
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora | No |
Inland Revenue Department | No |
Ministry for Primary Industries | No |
Ministry for Regulation | No |
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment | No |
Ministry of Education | No |
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade | No |
Ministry of Justice | No |
Ministry of Transport | No |
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise | No |
New Zealand Transport Agency- Waka Kotahi | No |
Parliamentary Counsel Office | No |
Parliamentary Services | No |
Stats NZ | No |
Tertiary Education Commission | No |
Transpower New Zealand Ltd | No |
Victoria University of Wellington | No |
GOVIS membership is changing in 2026
Why the need for change?
At our 2025 AGM, GOVIS passed a new constitution (see here) to bring us in line with the requirements of the Incorporated Societies Act 2022. Under the Act and our new constitution, we are now required to maintain a register of individual GOVIS members. This is a big change for us as GOVIS had previously allowed government agencies to register as member organisations, with all their employees effectively counting as individual employees (non-public service employees were able to request individual 'honorary membership' on a case-by-case basis).
What is changing?
Instead of offering membership at the agency level, GOVIS now offers membership at the individual level only. All members will be recorded in a register. Anyone (including non-public servants) can apply to be a member of GOVIS, provided they agree to the objectives of GOVIS (see here) and pay for their annual membership.
Government agencies (defined in our constitution as "any public sector body") may also subscribe to GOVIS on behalf of their employees. This allows these agencies to continue providing their employees with the benefits of GOVIS membership, with the only difference being that their employees must now also apply as members.
Note that our fees in 2026 are much the same as they were in 2025, except we now express them as GST inclusive and have rounded them up to the nearest even figure.
Also note that membership is now aligned to the calendar year. Paying for GOVIS membership now makes you a member for the period from 1st January 2026 to 31st December 2026. The latest membership period that we billed for was the 2024/25 financial year, so as part of this transition we have chosen to not bill any of our members for the final six months of 2025. We are making this change to align the membership period with the natural cadence of GOVIS activity and events (with the committee taking a break for much of December and January), and to ensure that each membership period is certain to contain a conference (with our conference date sometimes falling before 30th June, and sometimes falling after 30th June).
What information will GOVIS be collecting about members, and how will GOVIS use this information?
GOVIS will collect the names, contact emails, job titles, and organisation names of anyone who applies to be a member of GOVIS.
GOVIS will use information in the members register to:
Plan GOVIS events and initiatives.
Contact members, for example regarding GOVIS events and initiatives, or membership renewal.
Inform agency representatives of who in their agency has applied to be a member of GOVIS (or is already a member), for the purposes of purchasing an agency subscription.
GOVIS will also provide the register to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies, if they request this.
GOVIS will not put this information to any purpose that goes beyond the scope of GOVIS’s activities (as defined in the GOVIS constitution), including the commercial benefit of supplier organisations or the personal benefit of GOVIS members.
How will GOVIS keep the members register secure?
Access to the members register will be limited to the current GOVIS committee (as elected at the latest AGM). It will be stored in GOVIS’s Microsoft 365 tenancy (on SharePoint and Microsoft Forms). GOVIS will not provide access to the register to any GOVIS members who are not on the committee, or to any other third party (e.g. supplier organisations).