Advisor Data and Information
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
MBIE’s Advisors Data and Information are responsible for:
- Stewardship - they support work to reduce risk, maximise the value of information and data and to support safe and ethical use of data and information across MBIE.
- Design - they assist with change in MBIE's information, data and insights services and products, support approaches to lift MBIE’s data capability and promote a culture that is data-driven and evidence-based
- Communication - they provide trusted advice and guidance on data and information.
Their day-to-day work and activities will vary depending on the team.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Role specific competencies
Knowledge and understanding in one or more of the following professional areas:
- Data and information governance including stewardship, regulatory requirements, policy design and governance frameworks
- Data management including documentation, metadata, standards, systems design, data quality and business intelligence
- Information management including public records management, library collections, document management, information services and regulatory frameworks
- Data analysis including solving problems with efficient and reproducible analytics, data modelling tools and methodologies and data visualisation
- Research methods including qualitative and quantitative methods, ethics, survey management and managing outsourced experts
Personal specifications
- A proactive, can-do attitude with great initiative, judgement and discretion
- Ability to perceive, communicate and adopt new ways of looking at problems
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills to build relationships with team members and diverse stakeholders
- Understanding of Crown responsibilities under te Tiriti o Waitangi, knowledge of Te Reo Māori and Māori Data Sovereignty principles
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- Previous public sector experience is preferred but not essential
Qualification
- Relevant tertiary qualification in a related area (desirable)
Requirements
- Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Core activities and tasks
- Contributes to initiatives and programmes of work that strengthen MBIE’s data stewardship
- Supports the uplifting of data and information capability and collaboration across MBIE data stewards, custodians, and business owners
- Provides support for tasks and solutions to MBIE-wide challenges, including supporting the implementation of data and information projects
- Contributes to development and implementation of frameworks and standards that improve data and information quality, consistency and relevance across MBIE
- Delivers information services including sourcing, managing, collating and providing information to MBIE people
- Monitors and logs the details of advice and services requested using assigned systems
- Contributes to the quality and consistency of advice and practices across information and data disciplines
- Promotes the availability and use of data and information by internal customers
- Supports continuous improvement and innovation to MBIE’s data and information existing practices
- This role exists in a variety of teams across MBIE, the focus will depend on the work of your team
Work management
- Works with guidance on what is required and with supervision on new, difficult or unusual assignments
- Is well organised, plans systematically, regularly monitors and reports on progress towards achievement of plans and strategies
- Actively plans and manages workload
Relationship management
- Builds relationships across the team and wider branch
- Draws upon relationships to exchange ideas, resources and know how
- Actively seeks to build and maintain a network of contacts
- Lives the MBIE values through embracing diversity and supporting others
Capability development
- Takes responsibility for own professional development, working with their people leader to seek and select learning opportunities
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 Advisor Data and Information position reports into a manager within the Data Strategy and Knowledge & Data, Insights and Intelligence branch. The branch sits within the Corporate and Digital Shared Services group (CDSS).
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
