Advisor Information Security

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Join a high performing, collaborative and supportive Protective Security team
• Permanent full time | Auckland CBD location
• $75,114.00 - $88,266.00 plus KiwiSaver and wellness benefits

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

Join our dynamic team as an Advisor, where you’ll support MBIE to achieve its business priorities by strengthening information security capability, enhancing the classification system, and helping build a strong, mature protective security culture across the Ministry.

The Advisor Information Security will help ensure MBIE complies with the New Zealand Government’s Protective Security Requirements (PSR), particularly those relating to INFOSEC 2 – the New Zealand Classification System, and the correct handling, sharing, and protection of government information. This is a business role, not an ICT role.

In this role you will:

• Support the development, implementation and continuous improvement of MBIE’s classification and declassification policy and procedures.
• Advise staff across MBIE on how to correctly classify, handle, store, share and declassify protectively marked information.
• Assist with the classification training programme and wider protective security awareness initiatives.
• Support MBIE’s annual PSR capability maturity assessment for the information security domain.
• Collaborate with the Cyber Security Team, business groups, and other protective security practitioners to ensure information is protected throughout its lifecycle.
• Contribute to a strong, positive, no blame security culture that encourages learning, improvement and shared responsibility.
• Triage and monitor information security–related events reported through MBIE’s Event Reporting Tool.

You will support the Head of Protective Security and the Chief Security Officer to ensure MBIE has robust and functional protective security processes that are fit for purpose and enable business groups to carry out their business activities safely and securely. You will work with lead / principal / senior advisors, people leaders and their teams, and external stakeholder to achieve this.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Awareness or understanding of the New Zealand Classification System and the handling requirements for protectively‑marked information (refer to the Classification System, the Classification Handbook and the Classification Quick Guides)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain complex information clearly and simply
• Analytical skills, including the ability to interpret data, identify trends and support reporting
• Strong interpersonal, relationship and stakeholder management skills – able to work cooperatively, build trust, and support people to do the right thing
• Good judgement, problem‑solving capability and a ‘can‑do’ approach to finding workable, practical solutions
• The ability to work flexibly in a busy environment, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines 
• A collaborative working style
• Experience contributing to training, awareness activities, or organisational uplift initiatives (desirable but not essential).

You must be able to obtain and maintain a high level security clearance.

For your application to be considered you must be a New Zealand citizen, OR a resident who has resided continuously in New Zealand for 10 years, OR a citizen of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom or the United States of America, and have resided continuously in one or more of these countries for the last 10 years.

Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE:

MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.

• Mahi Tahi – Better Together
• Māia – Bold and brave
• Pae Kahurangi – Build our Future
• Pono Me Te Tika – Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity – Hīkina Whakatutuki – which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

E mōhio ana a Hīkina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kōtuinga I waenganui i a ngāi Māori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ā, kei te whai ia ki te whakaū ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mā te whai kiko o ngā kōtuinga ahungaroa o ngāi wi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, katutuki tēnei. He āhuatanga nui tēnei e āhei ai ngā mahi whanaketanga ā-ohanga, ā-pāpori hoki ki a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui. E whai tonu ana mātou ki te kōtui atu ki ngā iwi mō te rapu huarahi hou ki te whakaara i ngā kaupapakua roa nei e tāmi ana i a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui, ā, e whai ana hoki ki te tautohu i ngā āheinga kōkiritanga mā ngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēnei āheinga.

Me pēhea te tono - How to Apply:

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All applications must be submitted via our online process and include a Cover Letter and CV outlining your interest and suitability for the role. 

Email Danielle Plane at Danielle.Plane2@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/19288 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on Tuesday 14 April 2026 (midnight)