Senior Advisor Occupational Regulation

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

Occupational Regulation is a cross-sector team responsible for several different occupational licensing and registration schemes, which currently includes Electrical Workers, Licensed Building Practitioners, Immigration Advisers, Motor Vehicle Traders, Auctioneers and Pool Inspectors. Over time, other licensing/registration schemes might come into or out of Occupational Regulation.

The Senior Advisor, Occupational Regulation proactively supports the provision of high quality and timely thought leadership as well as strategic and tactical advice to the National Manager, Leadership Team, Principal Advisor and wider-team.

By bringing understanding of occupational regulation, this position will support the delivery of achieving desired strategic outcomes in occupational regulation, especially in relation to the regulatory compliance and licensing functions of the team.

The Senior Advisor, Occupational Regulation collaborates with the Principal Advisors and the Occupational Regulatory Leadership Team to support the development, articulation, and implementation of the team’s strategies. The position will use change management methods, where needed, to move the team towards desired strategic outcomes.

The Senior Advisor, Occupational Regulation works closely with the Principal Advisor, Occupational Regulation.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Regulatory compliance experience (preferably in occupational regulation).
• Has an understanding of relevant occupational licensing legislation and regulations.
• Has an understanding of regulatory systems.
• Demonstrable understanding and experience in at least two sectors, including technical aspects of the sectors.
• Able to pick up knowledge of other sectors.
• Has a developed understanding of regulatory risk.
• Is able to understand and provide advice on the operational impacts of law reform.
• Excellent influencing and interpersonal skills and proven ability to build relationships with both internal and external stakeholders; demonstrated by credibility, personal or collaborative influence, managing expectations and targeted persuasion.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) - including ability to explain legislation or technical guidance plain English and write for a range of audiences.
• Credible and comfortable working with executives.
• Strategic thinking regarding complex issues.
• Proven ability to critically analyse complex situations and to recommend and design robust solutions.
• Applies strong intellectual capability and judgement to analyse large, complex issues and readily grasps and synthesises ideas, analysis and advice produced by others.
• Experience in dealing with ambiguity in a complex and dynamic environment.
• High degree of political nous and a strong working knowledge of the machinery of government.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Qualifications

• A relevant tertiary qualification or extensive and comparable relevant experience.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

• Collaborates with the Principal Advisors, leadership, and wider team to support the development, articulation and implementation of the team’s strategies and other key priority work programmes.
• Supports the delivery of strategic outcomes in occupational regulation, especially in relation to the regulatory compliance and licensing functions of the team.
• Proactively supports the provision of high quality and timely strategic and tactical advice to the National Manager and leadership team, Principal Advisor and wider team.
• Provides high quality and timely risk mitigation advice to the Occupational Regulation leadership team.
• Identifies critical issues, important trends, key risks and opportunities.
• Recommends alternative approaches and pathways to their resolution.
• Supports the implementation of regulatory projects or other critical business projects.
• Leads engagement with both internal and external partners, intelligence gathering and information dissemination to promote regulatory framework and encourage compliance.
• Supports work to resolve complex and ambiguous issues with significant sensitivity and risk, by providing authoritative and frank advice that recognises the choices and constraints, anticipates needs, predicts and plans for potentially controversial or sensitive issues.
• Uses technical expertise and trusted relationships to influence and, where required, change behaviour across Occupation Regulation and the wider sector e.g. industry groups.
• Supports achievement of compliance in cases where there are significant changes to regulatory settings, for example changes to the relevant Act, including interpreting the change, developing the strategy on how to manage and implement the change, and subsequently advising and influencing the wider sector (for example, regulated practitioners) on how to implement the change.

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 Senior Advisor reports into the Manager Investigations within the Market Integrity branch. The branch sits within the Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery 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 New Zealand for All.

To Grow New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi (work). 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