Lead Advisor Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Do you have a wealth of knowledge and experience in business continuity and organisational resilience?
• Do you have exceptional stakeholder management skills?
• Permanent role, Wellington-based
• Salary range: $132,417 - $160,472 per annum

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

MBIE is looking for a Lead Advisor with excellent relationship building skills to work closely with the Head of Emergency Management and Business Continuity on an ambitious work programme.

The Lead Advisor Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience is a senior specialist position in MBIE. In partnership with the business, you‘ll be responsible for developing and implementing effective organisation-wide Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience programmes, policies and practices for MBIE.  To do this you’ll need to provide strategic advice and subject matter expertise and support to build a comprehensive business continuity management and organisational resilience framework (including policy, readiness and response, exercising arrangements and people capability). 

Your ability to establish positive, consultative style working relationships with managers at all levels is a key success factor for this role.  You’ll lead development and implementation of MBIE’s business continuity management frameworks, including the Ministry’s overarching continuity and incident management plans and related protocols, along with helping to lead the development of the Ministry’s default arrangements to ensure the Ministry is well placed to respond in an emergency, business disruption or catastrophic event.  You’ll also lead planning to ensure the Ministry can recover from disruptive events, and play it's part in the wider government response and recovery to an event.  And in the event of an enterprise-level incident, you’ll help by taking on a key role in MBIE incident management response.

Specifically, the functions of this position are to exercise a wide range of business continuity and organisational resilience practitioner skills and expertise to support the Head of Emergency Management to create and maintain a proactive continuity preparedness culture.

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

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• At least three years’ experience working at a senior level with proven Business Continuity and Organisational Resilience knowledge and experience.  
• Experience writing agency/enterprise-level incident and business continuity management plans within a large central-government agency context
• Knowledge and understanding of the NZ emergency management sector and the National Security System / ODESC system
• Sound understanding of the NZ regulatory environment including the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 and the Protective Security Requirements (Gov 3)  
• Knowledge and demonstratable experience using CIMS (Coordinated Incident Management System)
• In-depth knowledge of international standards and best practice (including the ISO22301, and Good Practice Guide from the BCI); including having completed the BCI certification in business continuity management.
• The ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to create good quality written documentation and content in a range of formats.
• The ability to identify risks and opportunities, and provide innovative solutions to problems.

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 Roxani Rahn at roxani.rahn2@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/16733 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on Sunday, 2 March 2025.