Principal Advisor – Strategic Workforce Planning
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
Purpose and outcome
You work with People and Culture and the business to design and implement strategic workforce plans that enables MBIE to pro-actively understand future workforce people and capability needs, the gap between now and future expectations, and have in place a clear talent pipeline plan that dovetails with broader sourcing and capability programmes of work.
You ensure planning is impactful and connected to MBIE’s strategic direction and ever-changing context through providing market and industry intelligence and insights to P&C and MBIE leaders.
Context and responsiblities
The expertise and experience you bring enables you to support the Head of Leadership, Talent & Growth and the wider business to design and deliver strategic workforce planning processes that put in place and maintain future-focused organisational talent pipelines and sourcing strategies. You co-create and pilot these processes with Advisory, specialist teams and the wider business to ensure the result is people centred, actionable, pragmatic, and impactful.
You provide market, industry and future of work intelligence that helps senior leaders and P&C make strategic workforce decisions, leading to more future focused and strategically impactful people outcomes.
Whether it’s developing strategies or plans, leading projects, co-creating with stakeholders, providing analysis and insights to senior leaders or coaching and mentoring others, the breadth and depth of experience you bring to this space means you thrive on the responsibility, variety, and necessary adaptability this type of role brings.
You perform this role in the context of a large organisation where there are diverse businesses, leadership teams and stakeholders to understand and navigate to get things done.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Experience and qualifications
The following experience and qualifications are specifically required for this position:
- Designing and implementing strategic workforce planning processes that put in place and maintain a pragmatic, flexible and future-focused organisational talent pipelines, and sourcing strategies.
- Providing market, industry and future of work intelligence that helps senior leaders and P&C make strategic workforce decisions, leading to more future focused and strategically impactful people outcomes.
- Co-creating and piloting workforce planning processes with Advisory, specialist teams and the wider business to deliver processes that are pragmatic, people centred and impactful.
- Writing successful business cases to senior leadership teams and demonstrating impact and return on investment.
Skills you must do well
- Engage and influence credibly on critical matters at the most senior levels, in person and in writing.
- Connect regularly with diverse and senior level networks enabling you to progress complex issues and resolve differing perspectives.
- Coach and mentor others, imparting knowledge in a way that supports and grows our colleagues and ensures a positive work environment.
- Understand why Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori Crown relations are important for the way we do our work. Be open to new ways of thinking and doing and willing to build own and others’ capability across Māori Crown relations to strengthen our ability to be effective.
- Plan, lead and deliver significant and complex pieces of work to a successful conclusion, maintaining composure and perspective when the going gets tough.
- Provide conceptual thinking and insights that progresses strategic goals, improve how we work in a ‘system’ and provide an enhanced offering for our customers.
- Know how to analyse the root cause of problems and pro-actively bring workable solutions to lead discussion and resolution.
- Bring an experimental approach to work, learn quickly from successes and mistakes and lead a system approach to sharing learning.
- Navigate complexity and ambiguity of political and sector environments. Understand government decision-making and operating procedures.
Experience and qualifications
The following experience and qualifications are specifically required for this position:
- Designing and implementing strategic workforce planning processes that put in place and maintain a pragmatic, flexible and future-focused organisational talent pipelines, and sourcing strategies.
- Providing market, industry and future of work intelligence that helps senior leaders and P&C make strategic workforce decisions, leading to more future focused and strategically impactful people outcomes.
- Co-creating and piloting workforce planning processes with Advisory, specialist teams and the wider business to deliver processes that are pragmatic, people centred and impactful.
- Writing successful business cases to senior leadership teams and demonstrating impact and return on investment.
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Relationship management
Internal
Senior leadership teams – You build trust and credibility through understanding business needs and presenting informed proposals that are people-centred, demonstrate strategic alignment, return on investment and connection across MBIE and/or the wider system.
People leaders – You understand the importance of working with and through all people leaders in MBIE to effect behavioural change and reinforce our leader-led approach, ensuring people are at the heart of everything we do. You use engagement techniques to influence and support people leaders to work effectively in this space.
Employee representative groups and networks – You regularly connect with those responsible for listening to and/or maintaining relationships with diverse employee groups and networks to ensure the employee voice is reflected in your work and people feel valued and heard.
External
Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission – You maintain a good working relationship with the Public Service Commission and can demonstrate how strategies and work in your remit aligns with system priorities. You take opportunities to comment on, lead or pilot public service initiatives that align with your work programme. This helps optimise MBIE’s profile and provides an opportunity through feedback to shape cross public service people initiatives.
Peers in other public service and sector agencies – You network with your peers across the public service to share ideas and tap into resources available from other departments. Maintaining those relationships enables you to share and leverage useful resources with ease.
Contractors, consultants, or vendors – You carefully vet, engage and direct external expertise to ensure it is available at the right time to augment our inhouse capability when needed. You keep relationships strong to support regular and core multi-year programmes of work for consistency in approach.
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 Principal Advisor – Strategic Workforce Planning position reports into the Head of Leadership, Talent and Growth within the People and Culture branch. The branch sits within the Corporate Services, Finance and Enablement group.
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
