Senior Advisor

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

You provide support to P&C and the business within the Leadership, Talent & Growth (LT&G) domain in one or more of these areas:

• leadership and talent experience (e.g., leadership, employee engagement, performance and development, Employee Awards programmes, talent management and succession planning)
• capability (e.g. enterprise learning, learning & development solutions and products, LMS management)

You play a key role in LT&G projects designed to create people-centred, leader-led, impactful LT&G outcomes aligned to MBIE’s People Strategy.

Your proactive and high-quality advice drives continuous improvement and consistency. You work with Heads of People and Culture, and others across the branch to resolve complex escalated queries and to enable effective and informed talent decisions and the design of initiatives that support an exceptional employee experience and the delivery of business strategy.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• In-depth experience and achievement in working with, and delivering, high quality organisational development advice and services.
• Experience leading the development and implementation of strategies and frameworks.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of organisational development, including latest developments in these fields.
• Strong business acumen
• Attentive to details and deadlines; ability to manage multiple initiatives.
• Sound analytical thinking, planning, prioritisation and execution skills.
• Ability to be flexible and to quickly adapt to the needs of a business’s changing demands.
• Proven ability to engage and influence staff, providing appropriate challenge when necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain effective work relationships, maintaining trust and credibility with managers and staff.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, to suit a range of stakeholders.

Qualifications

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

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Organisational Development Strategies and Frameworks

• Plans, develops, implements, and communicates organisational development strategies, programmes and initiatives in leadership development; talent management and succession planning; career pathways and competency frameworks; performance management; employee engagement and culture; and values.
• Ensures organisational development solutions align with the people strategy, business priorities, and MBIE’s policies and processes and support the development of a people centred and inclusive workplace culture.
• Creates and maintains frameworks, as well as templates, tools, and manager guidelines.
• Utilises relevant data and reporting information and to assess issues, and trends to gain relevant business insights, with support from the Data and Insights team.
• Continuously analyses and improves talent, succession planning, and leadership development strategies, programmes, processes, metrics, and results in order to best manage talent.

Delivers Talent Advice

• Provides advice and support to senior leaders and Heads of People and Culture to address strategic issues for their business groups, and responds to complex escalated queries from other People and Culture teams.
• Keeps updated with relevant strategic and leading practice approaches in organisational development and uses benchmarking to create and share leading practices in these areas.

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Works collaboratively with colleagues to maintain an open and collegial approach and actively contribute to the overall effectiveness the People and culture branch.
• Actively contributes to MBIE’s people strategy and Group people plans.
• Builds strong networks across the public sector to influence, and to gain knowledge and initiatives from other agencies.
• Coaches and supports other members of the team.
• Supports the Manager Talent and Development in the selection and engagement of third-party vendors

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 position reports into the Leadership, Talent &Growth Lead within the People and Culture branch. The branch sits within the Corporate and Digital Shared Services 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