Advisor Integrity

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The Advisor Integrity is a specialist position in MBIE. The Advisor Integrity brings their internal investigation experience, business understanding and perspective to work in partnership with their team and other managers and staff across the Ministry.

The role contributes to the operations of MBIE’s Integrity Team. The Head of Integrity, supported by the Integrity Team, is responsible for developing the strategic direction for MBIE’s integrity management, enhancing MBIE’s integrity practices and for providing advice and assistance on integrity matters. The Integrity Team works closely with a range of disciplines across MBIE including Legal, People & Culture, Protective Security and Privacy to achieve a collective impact for MBIE.

The Advisor Integrity will take a supporting role in promoting and driving improvements in MBIE’s performance of its integrity management framework, and in supporting a culture within MBIE where the standards of honesty, openness, transparency, and integrity are valued, New Zealanders have trust and confidence in MBIE and MBIE’s reputation is held in high regard.

The Advisor Integrity will provide high quality investigations along with advice, analysis and support to managers and the Ministry generally, to help lift integrity capability across MBIE.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Knowledge of internal investigation related methodologies and techniques.
• Experience in an Integrity Unit or similar environment.
• An ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with a wide range of people at all levels, both internal and external to MBIE.
• Ability to deliver successful outcomes in a demanding environment.
• Ability to influence and facilitate others to achieve outcomes.
• Ability to identify and assess organisational risk and anticipate outcomes and consequences.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proven ability to quickly build and maintain strong working relationships and gain buy-in / commitment from managers and internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in reviewing and implementing processes to enhance business improvement and service delivery.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise.
• Demonstrated high levels of integrity.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in relevant discipline or comparable relevant experience.

Other

• The ability to gain and maintain a national security clearance to Secret or Top-Secret level.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Indicators of success

• Run robust professional internal investigations and reviews into alleged wrongdoing, such as fraud, corruption, dishonesty, bribery, conflicts of interest, etc.
• Produce high quality outputs, for example investigation plans, interview approaches and final reports.
• Proactive regular communication with line managers to keep them up to date on the progress of investigations in their business area.
• Ensure interview transcripts are an accurate record of interviews undertaken.
• Support protected disclosure investigations, as required.
• Identify integrity issues and risks and take a proactive supporting role in resolving them.
• Deliver high quality, influential advice that addresses complex integrity problems and is innovative, robust and solution focused.
• Support the education of people leaders, empowering them to recognise ‘rightdoing’ detect ‘wrongdoing’ and have powerful conversations with their people, particularly in the areas of declaring interests relevant to the workplace, encouraging ‘speaking up' about ‘wrongdoing’, and acting in the ‘spirit of service’ as public servants.
• Maintain a strong knowledge base and expertise within the area of integrity, including internal investigations and reviews.
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of applicable frameworks, maturity models and legislation.
• Support the enhancement of MBIE integrity practices, by defining, reviewing, and updating policies, procedures, and tools; and delivering integrity related products, services, campaigns and programmes that actively support and contribute to the achievement of MBIEs outcomes whilst meeting the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist with promoting a strong integrity culture within MBIE.
• Provide quality assurance and peer review for investigations, integrity checks, reports, presentations, training or educational material and reviews.
• Provide secretariat support for the Integrity Assessment Panel.
• Assist with monitoring and reporting of trends and insights to the relevant Governance groups in MBIE including the Senior Leadership Team.

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 to transfer knowledge and learning from the team to the wider organisation.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, as necessary, 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.

Action oriented

• 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 within the team and with others in the organisation.
• Acts with honesty and integrity.
• Welcomes feedback and is receptive to input from others.

Organisational commitment and public service

• Builds commitment to MBIE’s vision, purpose, values, and services.
• Willingly undertakes any duty required within the context of the position.
• Manages own personal health and safety, and takes appropriate action to deal with workplace hazards, accidents, and incidents.
• Complies with all legislative requirements.
• Adheres to MBIE’s and the Public Service Codes of Conduct.

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 Integrity position reports into the Head of Integrity in the Legal, Ethics and Privacy branch. The branch sits within the Strategy and Assurance group.

More information about MBIE’s structure

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