Principal Intelligence Analyst

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Are you an experienced Intelligence Professional with established relationships across the NZIC ready to contribute valuable support to MBIE’s regulatory environment? 
• Are you collaborative and skilled in customer engagement and mentoring ready to set the standard and able to guide your team to provide intelligence products and services?
• Work in a dynamic environment and play a key role in delivering transformational change
• Advance your career in Intelligence and contribute to NZ’s security and nationwide regulatory practice.
• Initiate and lead discussions with customers from proactive identification of potential system issues. 
• Fixed Term Full time till 31/03/2025 – Salary $101,911 - $121,196 Auckland/Wellington/Christchurch.

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

The Our Future Services programme will deliver a more cost-effective immigration system that is more productive, more effective at managing immigration risk, and provides a better experience for our customers and staff. 

The programme will be delivered through multiple workstreams working in parallel, with each workstream implementing key initiatives with set milestone dates.
 

You will be part of the MBIE Intelligence and Country Research (MICR) Branch within Corporate and Digital Shared Services. As a Principal Intelligence Analyst, you will play a key role in transforming the immigration system and will report to the Manager, Regulatory Intelligence.  

You will provide analytical and intelligence support across a wide breadth of workstreams, coordinating MICR activities and MBIE functions with external. 

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana -

Skills and Experience Required
 

• 2+ years Intelligence Analyst experience at a senior level within a government agency.  
• Have existing and established relationships across the NZIC.
• Experience in setting up systems and processes for Intelligence.
• Experience handling sensitive or classified information.
• Comprehensive and demonstrable understanding of New Zealand’s Immigration System.
• Demonstrable background in mentoring and coaching others in intelligence practices and the application of analytical tools to provide ‘fit for purpose’ intelligence products.
• Clear concise communication skills, written and oral at all levels. 
• Astute, with strong analytical skills, a problem-solving approach and robust judgement.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop and maintain productive relationships across a diverse stakeholder base and range of agencies.
• A collaborative and action-oriented approach to issues, tasks and projects.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt within a dynamic environment and varied workstreams.
• Experience in providing intelligence advice to stakeholders utilising multiple sources of information and mitigating areas of uncertainty.

You MUST be a New Zealand Citizen or Permanent Resident to apply.

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:

Click here to view a position description. 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 Jackie Johnson at jackie.johnson@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/16921 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on 28th March at 11.59pm