Head of Organisational Strategy, Performance, and Reporting

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The Head of Organisational Strategy, Performance, and Reporting is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping, stewarding and embedding MBIE’s organisational direction.  The role’s primary focus is to lead strategic thinking, strategic alignment and governance, ensuring MBIE has a clear, coherent and future-focused direction that supports delivery of public value for Aotearoa New Zealand.

The role works closely with Senior Leadership Team (SLT), business groups, governance bodies and other key stakeholders to shape choices, clarify priorities, manage-trade-offs and connect strategy to performance, investment, governance and organisational decision-making.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Deep understanding of strategic management, organisational direction-setting, enterprise prioritisation, public sector stewardship and governance frameworks.
• Proven leadership capability including demonstrated ability to lead through complexity, build high-performing teams and create a clear sense of direction across multiple work programmes.
• Demonstrated experience partnering as a trusted strategic advisor to executive leaders with the judgement to influence decisions, manage trade-offs and provide clear advice on complex enterprise issues.
• Well versed in the development, implementation and continuous improvement of enterprise performance frameworks, measures and reporting approaches.
• Demonstrated experience translating complex performance information into clear insights, advice and reporting for senior leaders, governance groups and external accountability requirements.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, engage and create connections with diverse internal and external stakeholders, and establish credibility with senior leaders, delegates and stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong, trusted relationships across MBIE and with other government agencies, enabling collaboration, alignment and effective system-wide engagement.
• Welcomes and values diversity and contributes to an inclusive working environment where differences are acknowledged and respected.
• Highly adaptable and politically astute, with the ability to respond quickly to changing government, ministerial and organisational priorities.
• Demonstrated experience in continuous improvement frameworks.
• Understanding of governance systems and investment portfolios in a complex organisation.
• Understanding of machinery of government, public sector accountability requirements, strategic reporting obligations and the Ministry’s budget and planning cycle and requirements.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant field and/or comparable relevant experience.

Other

• The ability to gain and maintain a national security clearance to LEVEL (Confidential / Secret / Top Secret).
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
• Must consent to and satisfactorily complete a credit check as the role holds financial delegations.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

The Head of Organisational Strategy, Performance and Reporting will be required to deliver results in the following areas:

• Provide enterprise leadership for MBIE’s organisational strategy, ensuring it is clear, durable, evidence-informed, future-focused and actively used to guide choices, prioritisation and collective effort.
• Lead strategic dialogue with the SLT and senior leaders across MBIE to identify the choices that matter, clarify priorities, manage trade-offs and align effort behind the outcomes of greatest importance.
• Frame MBIE’s strategic direction for short, medium and long term horizons, recognising the complexity of multiple ministerial portfolios, statutory responsibilities, regulatory functions, stewardship obligations and delivery expectations.
• Adopt an approach that ensures our organisational strategy development is well connected, prioritised and sequenced across MBIE.
• Support the SLT to lead collectively, strengthen strategic focus and embed an enterprise view of performance, delivery and risk.
• Develop and maintain an enterprise performance framework that enables MBIE to assess progress against the medium to long term organisational strategy, reporting rhythms and insight products.
• Regularly report to SLT and relevant governance groups on how MBIE is progressing against the organisational strategy, including key performance trends, risks, issues and areas requiring attention.
• Lead the periodic review of the organisational strategy, enterprise performance framework and strategic reporting approach to ensure they remain fit for purpose.
• Provide advice to business groups on development of other key strategies and how to ensure alignment and integration with the organisational strategy (e.g. People Plan).
• Take the lead role, whilst working in conjunction with other business groups in the development and implementation of MBIE’s key accountability documents, including the Statement of Intent and the 4 Year Plan (if applicable).
• Work collectively with the PMO and MBIE Governance teams to ensure that project execution and focus aligns with MBIE’s strategic objectives and that the MBIE governance system is fit for purpose.
• Lead the Governance function to provide high-quality governance advice, secretariat support, meeting coordination, forward agenda planning, decision tracking and continuous improvement of MBIE’s governance arrangements.

Personal leadership

• Models exemplary management and leadership behaviours, public sector ethics and values.
• Creates a sense of vision, engages and motivates people to participate, and makes things happen.
• Fosters an open, collaborative environment that encourages quality, innovation, ongoing learning and knowledge sharing.

General management

• Sets the strategic direction, work programme and performance expectations for Organisational Strategy, Performance, Reporting and Governance, with supporting measurement, monitoring and reporting mechanisms.
• Aligns Organisational Strategy, performance, Reporting and Governance work programmes with MBIE’s strategic direction and other groups’ work programmes.
• Monitors and adjusts work programmes through the agreed processes to enable Organisational Strategy, Performance, Reporting and Governance to adapt to changing circumstances.
• Oversees the Governance Team’s work programme and resources to ensure effective support for governance committees and senior decision makers.
• Regularly monitors and reports on progress towards achievement of plans, strategies and performance expectations.
• Manages expenditure and resources in line with approved guidelines, budget, deadlines and reporting requirements, with a focus on driving cost effectiveness in the Ministry.
• Builds continuous review and improvement throughout all elements of Integrity’s operations.
• Effectively and consistently identifies and manages risk.

Team leadership

• Establishes clear accountabilities, expectations and performance standards with direct reports and ensures regular performance management and development occurs.
• Monitors individual, team and business unit performance to ensure that performance targets are met.
• Anticipates future capability needs in Organisational Strategy, identifies gaps in capability and addresses these gaps through targeted recruitment and development or other actions.
• Coaches, mentors and develops staff to meet the needs of MBIE now and in the future.
• Identifies and develops talent for key roles in Organisational Strategy.

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 Head of Organisational Strategy, Performance, and Reporting position reports into the General Manager within the Enterprise Strategy, Risk and Transformation branch. The branch sits within the Strategy and Assurance group.

More information about MBIE's structure

Ngā Kawenga Ārahitanga – Leadership Expectations

At MBIE our leadership expectations provide consistent language for how we expect our leaders to lead at MBIE. They are supported by our values, and the Public Sector leadership capabilities as described in the Leadership Success Profile (LSP).

Leadership Expectations - Ngā Kawenga Ārahitanga (MBIE)

Lead by example - Whakatinana hei tauira
Enable our people - Whakaāhei ō tātou tangata
Deliver what matters - Whakatutuki ngā manako

Matatautanga – Competencies (Leadership Success Profile)

The Leadership Success Profile (LSP) is a leadership capability framework, developed by the New Zealand public sector for the New Zealand public sector. It creates a common language for leadership and establishes what great leadership looks like. You can look at the twelve underpinning capabilities and four leadership characters here: Leadership Success Profile | Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission(external link)

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. 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).

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