Senior Advisor Regulatory Practice

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Lead and shape how New Zealand’s resources regulatory system works in practice
• Improve system understanding, compliance, and outcomes through clear guidance and engagement
• Permanent full-time position based in Wellington
• Salary: $101,911 – $121,196 plus KiwiSaver and wellness benefits

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

We’re looking for an experienced person to join our Resource Markets branch as a Senior Advisor - Regulatory Practice.

This role is about making regulatory change work in the real world. You’ll take new or changing policy, legislation, and operational processes and turn them into clear guidance, system information, and engagement that people can actually use.

You’ll work closely with policy, operational, and technical teams to help regulated parties understand what’s required and comply more easily.

Regulatory Practice works across the branch and manages how regulatory information is delivered through channels such as websites, system content, and communications, and how people experience the regulatory system in practice. This is a hands‑on senior role where you’ll lead pieces of work end to end, create and oversee practical content, help manage channels, and work with teams across the branch to improve how the system operates day to day.

This role will suit you if you:

• Like taking complex processes and turning them into clear guidance, decisions, and actions people can follow
• Are comfortable owning work end to end, from shaping an approach through to delivery and ongoing improvement
• Enjoy working between policy intent and operational reality, and care about how things work in practice

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll lead and deliver work that directly improves how the regulatory system operates in practice, including:

• Developing, maintaining, and owning regulatory guidance and system information for different external audiences
• Translating policy and operational changes into practical implementation material, delivered through various channels
• Leading end‑to‑end programmes of work to embed changes, from planning and delivery through to evaluation
• Improving how regulatory information is delivered across channels, including websites, social media, inboxes, and our service centre.
• Using insights from stakeholders and the system to identify emerging issues early and develop solutions

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana -

Skills and Experience Required
 

We’re keen to hear from people who bring some of the experience below, or who think they’d be a great fit for this mahi. You don’t need to meet every requirement, and your background could be in operations, regulatory practice, communications, engagement, policy, or a mix of these. What matters most is your ability to work confidently across complexity, ambiguity, and change, and to turn regulatory intent into something that works in practice.

You’ll likely bring:

• Experience working in or with regulatory systems, or an understanding of how regulation operates in practice
• Experience developing clear, high‑quality guidance, content, or system information for different audiences
• Experience translating complex legislation, policy, or technical material into plain English
• Strong planning and delivery skills, with the ability to manage end‑to‑end work and multiple priorities
• Experience applying customer‑or human‑centred design approaches to operational change, or system improvement
• A practical, solutions‑focused mindset and comfort working with uncertainty
• A commitment to public service values and the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi

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. 

When you are ready to apply please send a CV and cover letter telling us why you're the perfect fit for this role.

All applications must be submitted via our online process.

We can't wait to hear from you!

Email Monica Chow at monica.chow2@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/19373 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on Sunday, 26th April.

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