Manager Intelligence Operations

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE - Multiple Roles Available

We have five Manager roles available.

• Are you a top-level Intelligence professional ready to lead and manage a team of intelligence practitioners at MBIE and connect across the sector? 
• Use your extensive Intelligence background to help drive the intelligence function and ensure the products and services of Intelligence are delivered consistently and to high quality standards.
• Advance your career in Intelligence and make a meaningful contribution to the profession.
• Salary $118,390 - $143,639, Perm, Auckland/Wellington/Christchurch, wellness benefits.

Tēnei tūranga - About the Roles:

MBIE is responsible for the stewardship of 17 regulatory systems and plays an important role in supporting the national security system, the broader public sector, and New Zealand’s intelligence community.

We have multiple exciting leadership opportunities for great people to come and lead our Intelligence teams in delivering the MBIE Intelligence and Country Research (MICR) function.

It’s vital that MICR is well organised, well connected, innovative, and able to do the best work possible, to support those who use Intelligence. That’s where you come in! This people leader position, will work with our Intelligence Practice and Professional Development team to build capability within their team, collaborate with their MICR colleagues, customers, and across the Intelligence Community and guide their team to achieve MBIE and Government wide objectives.

Reporting to one of the MBIE Heads of Intelligence, these roles will be leading and managing a professional team of practitioners, including Intelligence Analysts or Researchers, to ensure the products and services of MBIE Intelligence and Country Research (MICR) are delivered consistently and to high quality standards.
 

About MBIE Intelligence and Country Research

The purpose of MBIE Intelligence and Country Research (MICR) is to actively enable decision-maker advantage at strategic, operational and tactical levels for MBIE business units, the Executive, our Ministers, and domestic and international partners.

To deliver this, our Intelligence and Country Research teams provide intelligence services and produce intelligence products that are designed, developed and delivered to maximise the opportunities and reduce non-compliance and harm in the regulatory systems, uphold our governmental responsibilities, and support decision maker advantage. MICR also takes a leading role in ensuring ongoing and enhanced coordination between MBIE business units and other domestic governmental intelligence and national security functions and overseas partner agencies.

Through the provision of timely and relevant intelligence support and country research products, MICR is instrumental in supporting Te Ara Amiorangi (Our Path, Our Direction) and Hīkina Whakatutuki (Grow New Zealand for All).
 

Roles to be filled 

• Manager Regulatory Intelligence – Immigration NZ (INZ) – Located in Wellington, Auckland, or Christchurch  
• Manager Mass Arrivals – Located in Wellington or Auckland
• Manager Intelligence Operations – Located in Wellington or Auckland 
• Manager Registry – Located in Wellington or Auckland
• Manager Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) – Located in Wellington, Auckland, or Christchurch 

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana -

Skills and Experience Required
 

• Demonstrated impactful leadership of practitioners with experience in coaching, mentoring practitioners and uplifting capability of individuals and teams. This includes a proven track record in leading Intelligence and/or Research teams, to achieve strategic and short-term needs.
• Able to take the lead with projects with excellent knowledge and experience in Intelligence, Research, and Open-Source.
• Maintain expertise in intelligence and/or research practice and hold either, a tertiary qualification, or extensive and comparable relevant experience.
• Ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships and develop trust, credibility, buy-in and collaboration.
• Excellent change leadership, communication and coaching skills to embed a culture of success within a team.
• A sound understanding of the mechanics of Government to accompany a well-developed understanding of the standards required when working with protective security requirements, including highly classified material.
• A credit check and Police check will be required.
• Employment requires the candidate to be a New Zealand citizen or Permanent Resident who has resided continuously in this country 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 those countries for the past 10 years prior to application, with a background history which is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the NZSIS towards a recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at a high level. Not sure if you are eligible? Check it out here.

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 stating which role(s) you would like to be considered for and a CV outlining your interest and suitability for the role(s). 

Email Jackie Johnson at jackie.johnson@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/17226 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on 15th May 2025 at 11.59pm