Data Analyst
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Data Analyst is a team member position in MBIE. The Data Analyst will bring their business understanding and perspective to work in partnership with their manager and other staff. The Data Analyst contributes to the operations of the Business Analytics and Targeting team.
The Data Analyst supports R&V and other business units with data and reporting to inform decision making across the Immigration system, Parliamentary Questions (PQs), Official Information Act requests (OIAs), media query responses, process changes and implementing improvement initiatives.
The role is responsible for providing business analytics services, including monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on outcomes, issues, trends and challenges. The Data Analyst is responsible for providing statistical analysis, data analysis, regular and ad hoc reporting, quality assurance and advisory services to support R&V and wider INZ.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- Proven knowledge and experience in analysing business information needs and the ability to translate these into business information requirements.
- Knowledge of relational databases and business information tools/software.
- Experience of working with large data sets in a data warehouse environment.
- Skills in database and analytical tools primarily SQL and including SAS EG, SAS Visual Analytics, MS Excel, Power BI and R.
- Ability to work with numbers and utilising these to underpin decisions with quantitative data.
- Excellent communications, self-management, and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to clearly present analysis and ideas in person and on paper.
- Ability to translate complex and technical information into information easily understood by non-technical staff.
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and changing requirements.
- Ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships.
- Tertiary qualification, preferably in Statistics, Operations Research, computer science or some other relevant discipline and/or comparable relevant experience.
- The ability to gain and maintain a national security clearance as required.
- The ability to gain and maintain MBIE privileged access as required.
- Must be a NZ citizen or hold a Permanent resident visa.
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Key deliverables
The Data Analyst will be required to deliver results in the following areas:
- Providing analysis, information, content, quality assurance and data management services to R&V.
- Undertakes data mining activity and complex statistical and pattern analysis.
- Undertake reporting to monitor the triage system on a regular and ad-hoc basis.
- Identifies additional analytical techniques and tools to enhance the identification and generation of insights.
- Demonstrates a structured and pragmatic approach to analysis, including working with stakeholders to interpret and validate the results.
- Identifies, prepares, and oversees the implementation of data mining algorithms.
- Providing knowledge management and business analysis services, monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on outcomes trends, issues and challenges.
- Ensuring information collected is analysed and disseminated in an effective and timely manner and is used in the plans and work programmes to assist R&V/INZ and wider MBIE to ensure the integrity of Risk and Value Management.
- Design and deliver information products that satisfy user requirements, including Ad hoc queries and reports, Regular reports, Data analyses.
- Build relationships with key staff to ensure they are equipped with the knowledge to conduct and contribute to the Triage and Verification framework.
Personal Leadership
- Model exemplary leadership behaviours, and State sector ethics and values.
- Models the MBIE values of Maia, Pae Kahurangi, Mahi Tahi and Pono me te Tika and leads this across the team.
- Foster an open, collaborative environment that encourages quality, innovation, ongoing learning, and knowledge sharing.
Manage key relationships and linkages within the Ministry and with sectors/industry
- Actively contributes to development of and promotion of whole of Immigration Risk and Border(IRB)/Ministry views in internal and external interactions.
- Contributes to and manages collaboration within the BAT-IRB on solutions to ensure effective input and ownership of outcomes.
- Works collaboratively with colleagues to monitor, review, evaluate and improve existing business, customer, and community experiences against desired outcomes.
- Builds and maintains effective relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, as necessary, in order to identify and share best practice information and to promote the Ministry, its products and services.
- Represents whole-of-Ministry views and protects its reputation in any external interactions.
Key relationships
- Managers and staff in Immigration New Zealand.
- Other MBIE corporate teams e.g., Data Warehouse, ICT.
- Other data teams in MBIE and across government agencies.
- Network and professional groups.
- External vendors.
Organisational commitment and public service
- Contributes to the development of, and helps promote and builds commitment to MBIE’s vision, mission, values, and services.
- Willingly undertakes any duty required within the context of the position.
- Works appropriately within the political environment in which the organisation operates and its interface with the wider State services.
- Understands Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) principles and the application of these to MBIE.
- Manages own personal health and safety, and takes appropriate action to deal with workplace hazards, accidents, and incidents.
- Complies with all legislative requirements and good employer obligations.
Safety and wellbeing
- 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.
- Demonstrates support of staff/colleagues to maintain safe systems of work.
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 Data Analyst position reports into the Team Leader within the Immigration Risk and Border branch. The branch sits within the Immigration New Zealand 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
