Senior Compliance Officer

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The Senior Compliance Officer is responsible for carrying out an active compliance programme, in line with the branch compliance strategy, to ensure that permit holders adhere to the requirements of the Crown Minerals Act in way that ensures the responsible management of the Crown Minerals estate. The jobholder will need to work on a range of compliance activity ranging from education through to enforcement action including prosecutions. The compliance model will include working across teams to integrate compliance activities into the broader permit management regime. The jobholder is expected to develop and maintain good working relationships and intelligence networks with regulators such as Worksafe, local government, Environmental Protection Authority and Department of Conservation, as well as with exploration and mining companies.

The Senior Compliance Officer will apply technical expertise and a sophisticated compliance approach that delivers results. The Senior Compliance Officer is expected to operate across ERM and to engage effectively with a range of senior external stakeholders in order to ensure our decisions are well informed, to influence others, and to shape negotiations with industry participants.

To support effective day-to-day operations of ERM, the Senior Compliance Officer will work with the Principal Compliance Officer and provide compliance expertise and advice to decision makers and staff across Minerals and Petroleum teams. They will help instil greater compliance understanding and capability across the branch and achieve successful regulatory outcomes.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Strong experience in undertaking a range of compliance activities to achieve successful outcomes including investigations and prosecution.
• Experienced applying best practice regulation, compliance and enforcement.
• While experience of working in the resources sector is desirable, candidates with compliance experience in other sectors will be considered.
• Experience of managing processes and understanding the need to use available resources effectively to achieve the greatest impact.
• Managing in an operational / transactional environment.
• Able to build and maintain effective strategic relationships with stakeholders in government and industry.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders in industry and within Government including Ministers.
• Tertiary qualification in environmental management, public management, law or equivalent relevant experience.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
• Credit check required (yes)
• Required to drive (yes)
• Police vetting (no)

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Strategic Direction

• Uses advanced critical thinking, reasoning and judgement to identify compliance issues.
• Shapes an ambiguous, complex or unclear compliance issue into a problem; identifies its root causes. explores and evaluates relevant information and integrates it into the development of resolution options.
• Carries out research to inform more complex compliance issues.
• Builds requisite knowledge for different compliance issues quickly, draws on in-depth knowledge of the area as well as broad knowledge from other domains, and critically uses evidence and information from multiple and diverse sources to draw inferences and come to conclusions based on available evidence.
• Uses judgement to identify and assess options against the desired outcomes, identify their cost-effectiveness and impact, identify risk and effective mitigation strategies, deal comfortably with uncertainty and make innovative, practical and durable recommendations without the total picture.
• Determines research required to meet the regulatory framework requirements in the compliance area.
• Applies an outward-looking approach to building relationships with external stakeholders, delivery agencies and government agencies, understands their different perspectives, and is able to manage differences of views and reflect them in advice.

Support Regulatory Framework

• Uses judgement and compliance expertise to advise on regulatory framework and relevant legislation.
• Informs and supports interpretation of and changes to the regulatory framework and relevant legislation.
• Conducts research into complex issues and produces compliance advice.
• Presents information and actively works with staff in other MBIE branches, government and external agencies.
• Manages information and data appropriately.
• Provides supervision, guidance, coaching and mentoring and on-the-job training to team members. 

Delivery

• Plans and manages work, develops and maintains relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Works with minimal direction and guidance on what is required and is confident working on new, difficult or unusual assignments.
• Uses project planning and management techniques to effectively carry out the agreed work in technical areas, using initiative to resolve most conflicts, manage risks and coordinate work with others.
• Works with some guidance on the overall compliance objectives, within the resources available and provides timely reports on progress.
• Leads multiple pieces of work concurrently and actively and independently plans and manages work load.
• Takes a leadership role in cross-MBIE and cross-government projects.
• Chairs and contributes to meetings, including where matters are complex or sensitive, require negotiation or solutions

Monitoring and Compliance

• Contributes to the development an effective compliance strategy for the effective regulation under the relevant legislation.
• Leads the implementation of programme of compliance activities in alignment with the compliance strategy. › Helps build an effective network to inform targeted compliance activity.
• Develops reporting and monitoring tools to gather information as well as the effectiveness of compliance activities against objectives.
• Determines appropriate enforcement.

Expertise

• Is able to apply best practice compliance and enforcement tools to achieve successful outcomes.
• Able to apply their experience to the range of our compliance tools to choose the most appropriate course of action in a range of situations from education through to investigation and prosecution.
• Has in-depth understanding and operates within complex areas of the legal and regulatory framework.
• Undertakes complex work without guidance.
• Is able to clearly communicate technical information to a non-technical audience.
• Writes clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles.
• Tailors appropriate messages for the audience.
• Is able to apply an outward-looking approach to building relationships with external stakeholders, delivery agencies and government agencies. Can understand their different perspectives, and is able to manage differences of views and reflect them in advice.
• Coaches and mentors junior staff.
• Provides insight into technical information and complex ideas.
• Is able to adapt information appropriately depending on the audience. 

Analysis and Evaluating

• Analyses complex information to inform and advise.
• Provides problem solving decisions on a thorough assessment of circumstances, relationships, resources and risk.
• Uses range of assessment and evaluation techniques to provide an evaluation of a situation. 
• Develops concepts and recommendations to inform solutions enforcement.

Organisational Agility

• Knows how to get things done both through formal channels and informal networks. 
• Understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices and procedures.

Strategic Agility

• Can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately.
• Has broad knowledge and perspective.
• Is future orientated.
• Can articulate and paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods.
• Sees ahead clearly.

Wellbeing, health & safety

• Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
• Ensures own and others safety at all times.
• Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
• Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
• Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.

Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry

The Senior Compliance Officer position reports into the National Manager Compliance within the Resource Markets branch. The branch sits within the Building, Resources and Markets group.

More information about MBIE’s structure

To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand

Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.

To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.

As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).

Ngā matatau – Our competencies

Cultivates innovation We create new and better ways for the organisation to be successful by challenging the status quo generating new and creative ideas and translating them into workable solutions.

Nimble learning We are curious and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems by learning as we go when facing new situations and challenges.

Customer focus We build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions by listening and gaining insights into the needs of the communities we serve and actively seeking and responding to feedback.

Decision quality We make quality and timely decisions that shape the future for our communities and keep the organisation moving forward by relying on an appropriate mix of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement to make valid and reliable decisions.

Action oriented We step up, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with purpose, urgency and discipline by taking responsibility, ownership and action on challenges, and being accountable for the results.

Collaborates We connect, working together to build partnerships with our communities, working collaboratively to meet shared objectives by gaining trust and support of others; actively seeking the views, experiences, and opinions of others and by working co-operatively with others across MBIE, the public sector and external stakeholder groups.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.

Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service

Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.

In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.

What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission