Senior Field Intelligence Officer

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Work in a dynamic and challenging Intelligence environment supporting Aotearoa, New Zealand’s domestic security and nationwide regulatory practice.
• Unique opportunity to work across the MBIE regulatory and intelligence systems.
• Gisborne or Napier based permanent role
• Salary range: $101,911 - $121,196

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

As a Senior Field Intelligence Officer, you will play a significant role as a key liaison person in the field (regions) and is responsible for ensuring collection and dissemination of information and intelligence to support and provide unique insights into decisions across MBIE’s regulatory and New Zealand’s national security systems.

You will identify, gather and develop potential sources of information using a variety of methods, working within legal and operational parameters to meet tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence requirements, ensuring all relevant information is explored to develop credible intelligence for an identified and tasked regulatory and/or intelligence outcome.

About MBIE Field Intelligence
 
 

The purpose of Field Intelligence is to inform and enhance decisions by MBIE and provide operational support to TWSD. Our mahi is proportionate, lawful, necessary, and linked to an approved Intelligence Requirement. Intelligence collected by us is useful, useable and used i.e. we support the decision-maker by:

• Directed and focussed collection to fill an MBIE information/intelligence/knowledge gap.
• Obtain relevant (real time) details to inform further MBIE activity. 
• Identify risks to the responding MBIE unit.
• Strengthen the all-source intelligence picture.
• Corroborate information held or received. 
• Access subjective data such as intentions and personal perspectives.

This is ‘Ground Truth,’ which is intended to provide a basis for further investigation, analysis, and/or informing situational awareness.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana -

Skills and Experience Required
 

Pre-requisites:

• New Zealand Citizenship or hold a New Zealand Permanent Residency class visa.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a national security clearance at Top Secret level (check your eligibility here)
• You must also have a current full New Zealand drivers’ license as there is a requirement to travel domestically as part of the role.
• Satisfactorily complete pre-employment checks which will include, but is not limited to, criminal and credit checks.

We would like to hear from you if you have the following:

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop trust, influence and maintain effective relationships to work closely with the wider Intelligence team and execute collection priorities.
• Proven ability to build and manage key strategic relationships, including identifying and fostering important partnerships and collections opportunities.
• Ability to quickly assimilate new information or areas of work and undertakes complex intelligence enquiries in line with relevant policies and legislation.
• Ability to work across a broad spectrum of agencies to ensure all relevant sources of information are explored, including identifying opportunities for further information gathering.
• Proven experience in a relevant intelligence field as in Field Intelligence Officer.
• Good working knowledge of the business, economic and social environment that MBIE operates in.
• Demonstrated understanding of the protocols and processes required when working with protective security requirements, including highly classified material.
• Proven knowledge and experience in the collection and evaluating of information and contributes to the maintenance of a national open sources and agency contacts database. 
• Tertiary qualification, preferably in a relevant field, or comparable relevant experience in immigration, intelligence, or law enforcement.

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 Sarah Hutcheson at sarah.hutcheson@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/17277 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on Monday 19 May 2025