Senior Advisor – Performance Insights and Evaluation

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The Senior Advisor, Performance Insights and Evaluation is a team member position in the System Performance and Implementation team.

The Senior Advisor, Insights and Evaluation is a systems and strategy-oriented thinker who can:

• Provide clear, high quality reports and briefings that translate monitoring, insights, performance and research findings for governance groups, external stakeholders and Ministers, clearly articulating impacts on the building system.
• Hold stewardship for building system data standards and can use those standards to drive consistent, reliable, and system level reporting across the building regulatory system and the sector.
• Ensure a joined up approach to monitoring and reporting across the building regulatory system, inputting into defining data needs and ensuring data collection is fit for purpose.
• Work closely with the branch and across the building system to identify evaluation requirements and develop plans for assessing the impact of policy or technical initiatives.
• Have oversight across evaluation or research activities, leading on developing proposals and overseeing outsourced projects.
• Drive continuous improvement by strengthening the use of insights and ensuring learnings are systematically fed back into policy development and technical change thinking.
• Lead or coordinate monitoring and reporting activities for the building regulatory system that contributes to meeting statutory obligations under the Building Act 2004.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Understands the strategic context, current strategy and priorities; can see issues in the wider context and apply foresight and judgement to identify what is important for the building regulatory system.
• Able to combine storytelling with qualitative and quantitative analysis of data and insights.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and demonstrated competence in effectively communicating complex ideas both orally and in writing to a wide variety of audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and relationship management skills, with the ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, providers and government agencies, an understanding of their different perspectives, and is able to manage differences of views and reflect them in advice.
• Experience, or ability to learn and use, reporting dashboards, such as those created in Power BI, is desirable.
• Understands the public sector, the Ministry’s role and strong understanding of the mechanics of government.
• A relevant post graduate tertiary qualification. Qualifications in techniques and methods in evaluation and research are desirable.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand and be able to satisfy the Ministry’s security clearance requirements.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Critical areas of success

• Produces clear, well-reasoned and influential analysis, reports, and briefings that are fit for purpose and accessible to governance groups, Ministers, external stakeholders, and internal audiences.
• Leads system level monitoring, reporting, and insight for the building regulatory system, integrating data, monitoring, evaluation, and research to show what’s working (or not), why, and where improvement is needed — including meeting statutory reporting obligations under the Building Act.
• Leads and contributes to the development and use of building system data standards, including data definitions, naming conventions, and reporting requirements for Building Consent Authorities, to support consistent, reliable, system wide reporting.
• Works collaboratively across policy, technical, operational and data teams to ensure best practice in monitoring, evaluation and reporting, and to maintain a joined-up view of the building regulatory system.
• Leads or coordinates research and evaluation activity, including defining research needs, overseeing outsourced work, managing contracts, and supporting levy funded research strategies and investment priorities.
• Applies strong understanding of government machinery, MBIE processes, and regulatory practice to influence continuous improvement of the building regulatory system.

Deliver work programme outputs

• Holds accountability for ensuring research, evaluation, and monitoring initiatives collectively deliver against building system priorities.
• Well organised, plans systematically, regularly monitors and reports on progress towards achievement of plans and strategies.
• Effectively and consistently identifies and manages risk, alerting manager to potential problems/risks well in advance and proposing solutions.
• Effectively allocates tasks within portfolio area, assists others with project panning, and can plan and manage a range of complex issues.
• Responsible for the development of options and solutions to business problems 
  Acts to improve the delivery of current regulatory services as well as having an eye to the future regulatory opportunities and challenges.

Relationship management

• Proactively develops and maintains connections with stakeholders within and outside of the Ministry, purposefully leveraging their activities and insights to better achieve desired policy outcomes.
• Actively contributes to development of and promotion of whole of Ministry views in internal and external interaction.
• Represents whole-of-Ministry views and protects its reputation in external interactions.
• Tests the effectiveness of stakeholder relationships using a range of appropriate measures and processes (including stakeholder feedback).

Self-management

• Models positive behaviours.
• Models the desired values and culture of the organisation.
• Willingly shares knowledge, expertise and within the team and with others in the organisation.
• Acts with honesty and integrity.
• Welcomes feedback and is receptive to input from others.

Organisational commitment and public service

• Contributes to the development of, and help promote and build commitment to MBIE’s vision, mission, values and services.
• Willingly undertakes any duty required within the context of the position.
• Understands Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) principles and the application of these to MBIE.
• Comply with all legislative requirements and good employer obligations.

Wellbeing, health and 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 Advisor position reports into the Performance, Insights and Evaluation Manager within the System Performance and Implementation team in Building System Performance 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 New Zealand for All.

To Grow New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi (work). 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