Principal Advisor

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Practice your risk and assurance skills so they play a crucial role in improving decision making across a massive area, including data and insights, ICT, programme and portfolio management, finance, well-being health and safety, and people and culture.
• Be part of a collegial, innovative and forward-thinking team in a rapidly changing environment
• Wellington based, 6 month fixed term position
• Salary range: $118,390-$143,639
   

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

We are currently seeking a Principal Advisor Risk and Assurance to support us over the next six-months while we integrate the risk and assurance functions within a new Group. Our small, friendly, and close-knit Planning, Risk and Assurance team.

The position reports into the Manager Group Risk and Assurance within the Planning Risk and Assurance branch. The branch forms the engine room to support the new Corporate and Digital Shared Services Group.

As a Principal Advisor, you will play an important role in bringing consistency to the risk functions within the new group while continuing to enhance overall risk maturity.

You will also support the ongoing work to embed risk management and assurance into the wider performance story. You will bring a range of risk and assurance experiences to arrive at pragmatic and practical solutions.

Working collaboratively with the Manager Group Risk and Assurance you will also provide operational and strategic risk advice as well as lead and manage the assurance programme.
 

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana -

Skills and Experience Required
 

• 5+ years’ experience in risk management and assurance
• Proven experience in leading and undertaking complex risk management and assurance activities
• The ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
• Can effectively cope with change, shift gears comfortably, decide and act without having the total picture, and handle risk and uncertainty
• Confident in supporting the business to effectively manage risk and identify opportunities for improvement
• The ability to manage competing priorities within tight deadlines

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/16592 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on Tuesday 4 February 2025