Senior Advisor Risk
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
Managing risk effectively is essential to MBIE’s success, to grow New Zealand for all. As a Senior Adviser Risk, you help ensure that risk appetite is clearly defined, risk practices are embedded in everyday operations, and there is a unified, dynamic view of risk across the organisation.
Reporting to the Head of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Insurance, the Senior Advisor Risk acts as a trusted advisor providing expert advice to senior managers and staff to help identify and manage risk and improve the quality of risk information used in decision-making.
The Senior Advisor Risk supports the development and implementation of MBIE’s risk frameworks, tools and guidance to lift risk management capability and share lessons learned to promote a risk-aware culture.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- Experience supporting a risk function in a large and complex environment
- Sound knowledge of, and practical experience in, best practice risk frameworks, systems and processes
- Proven ability to develop trust and credibility with senior managers and staff and build strong working relationships
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Emotional intelligence, demonstrated through sound judgement, an even temperament and the ability to influence and motivate others.
- Ability to quickly assimilate new information or areas of work
- Well organised with the ability to multitask and manage time effectively
- Ability to coach and upskill other team members
- Experience in data analysis would be advantageous
- Experience with risk management software solutions would be advantageous
- Credit check required (yes/no)
- Police vetting (yes/no)
Qualifications
- A relevant tertiary qualification is preferred
Other
Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Delivers quality results which contribute to the Ministry’s outcomes
- Manages a portfolio of business groups across MBIE, ensuring risk management practices are aligned with MBIE’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework and providing support to optimise the use of the Camms tool for risk monitoring and reporting
- Provides expert advice to senior managers and staff that is timely and pragmatic, including facilitating risk workshops, recommending risk treatments and supporting special projects
- Supports and implements the annual risk work programme, including taking the lead on specific initiatives and engagement with key stakeholder groups
- Provides evidence-based insights into risks and controls, analysis of risk trends and themes, and lessons learned to support quarterly reporting to the Assurance, Risk and Accountability Committee (ARA ), Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Risk and Advisory Committee (RAC)
- Identifies and raises significant issues and risks, providing risk advice, and supporting the development of strategies for management to responsibly manage and mitigate risks
- Supports the development and implementation of reports and dashboards to meet business needs
- Identifies and takes opportunities for the Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Insurance team to collaborate and add value to priority work across MBIE
- Continuously improves risk frameworks, policies, systems and processes and their application across the Ministry
- Leads by example by displaying and encouraging behaviours essential to the delivery of a strong risk-aware culture
Customer focus
- Identifies the needs or expectations of customers
- Treats internal customers with the same courtesies they would extend to external customers
- Works hard to meet customer deadlines
- Always looks to improve service
- Maintains professionalism
Relationship management
- Participates as an active team member and contributes knowledge and expertise needed to achieve MBIE’s outcomes
- Develops effective working relationships with other MBIE managers and staff in order to transfer knowledge and learning from the team to the wider organisation
- Builds and maintains effective relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
- Represents whole-of-Ministry views and protects its reputation in any external interactions
Action Orientated
- Takes responsibility for own work
- Self-starter
- Seeks input if required
- Recognises and acts on opportunities
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
Key relationships
- First line Risk and Assurance teams / Risk Coordinators within portfolio
- Second line Functional Risk Leads
- Deputy Secretaries and General Managers
- General Manager Enterprise Strategy Risk and Transformation
- Head of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Insurance
- Compliance team
- Internal Assurance
- Managers and staff across MBIE
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 Advisor Risk position reports into the Head of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Insurance within the Enterprise Strategy, Transformation and Risk branch. The branch sits within the Strategy and Assurance 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
