Business Partner People and Culture

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Support the delivery of a first in class HR offering focused around developing great talent
• Salary range $118K - $143K 
• 6 month fixed term/secondment | Wellington based 

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

Joining as a People and Culture Business Partner at MBIE, will offer you the chance to thrive. You will be bringing together all your past learnings, experience, and accomplishments to work in a supportive and creative environment where ideas and new ways of working are not just encouraged, they are celebrated.

Partnering with one of our business groups, you will play a key role in enabling the achievement of business outcomes across a full range of P&C services.  

You will cultivate trusted and credible relationships with General Managers and People Leaders and provide guidance that enables them to feel confident and well supported by us to create inclusive and engaging people experiences.

You will support the delivery of strategic and operational business outcomes in areas including change management, employee engagement, workforce planning, talent management and succession planning.  Your role is also pivotal in the mentoring, coaching and development of our Advisors.

What this role offers 

A career with MBIE will offer you interesting, varied, and meaningful work that makes a real difference to the lives of New Zealanders.   We are a large, far-reaching organisation undertaking complex and diverse work, this means there are opportunities to take on new and interesting work.  

We will also help you manage a healthy work-life balance — with flexible working options that benefit you, your family, and our organisation.
 

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

We are looking for candidates with significant and broad HR experience at a strategic level to deliver HR solutions.  Further to this you will also:
 
 

• Have a reputation for exceptional customer focus with experience in cultivating trusted and effective working relationships at senior levels
• Be able to draw from your experience as a Business Partner to provide advice on change management and organisation development 
• Think pragmatically and be comfortable working on a wide range of employment situations and issues
• Ideally have knowledge and experience of te ao Māori and te ao Māori practices, tikanga, te reo along with an appreciation and understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles.  Or, if you are at the start of your journey, are open to learn and develop your cultural capability.  

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 Dorinda Te Kiri at dorinda.tekiri@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/16051 if you have any further questions.

Applications close 3 November 2024