Advisor – Regional Skills Leadership Groups
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Advisor is a team member position in MBIE. As part of the RSLG team, the Advisor is responsible for supporting the overall capability of the team.
- The Advisor: gathers evidence, analyses issues develop options and prepares advice for defined issues and contributes to larger, more complex projects where others have the accountability for the delivery of outputs.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- A customer-oriented mindset, with a focus on audiences and outcomes.
- Excellent written communicator, with good attention to detail.
- Analysis, research, and report writing experience.
- A commitment to Te Tiriti, and Te Ao Māori.
- Great self-organisation and work management skills.
- Comfortable working collaboratively using online tools, and with occasional travel.
- Must have legal right to live and work in NZ.
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Analysis activities and tasks
- Sets advice in a broad political, economic, and strategic context, and conducts analysis within the medium- and longer-term work programme.
- Applies standard frameworks, principles, tools, and approaches to the analysis of issues.
- Applies critical thinking clear logic reasoning to analyse issues.
- Gathers, analyses, and assesses key information and evidence from a variety of sources.
- Establishes a sound base of content knowledge and learning how to be guided in this process by the work programme.
- Engages effectively with delivery agencies, stakeholders, and other government agencies.
- Contributes to developing practical and effective options that will help to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Provides clear, accurate, and well-reasoned products that are targeted to the audience.
Work management
- Works with direction and guidance on what is required and with supervision on new, difficult, or unusual assignments.
- Plans and coordinates process and manages and delivers projects.
- Actively and independently plans and manages own projects and workload.
Capability development
- Takes responsibility for own professional development, working with manager, to seek opportunities to learn.
- Supports less experienced colleagues and may act as a coach and share knowledge and skills. May review work, provide quality control.
Relationship management
- Maintains relationships across a variety of functions and locations. Draws upon multiple relationships to exchange ideas, resources, and know how. Actively seeks to build and maintain a network of contacts.
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 position reports into the National Secretariat Manager within the Regional Skills Leadership Groups branch. The branch sits within the Labour Science and Enterprise 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
