Senior Advisor - Strategy, Operations and Standards

Date:  18 Feb 2025
Location: 

Wellington, NZ, 6011

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

 

  • New Zealand Government Property Office
  • Permanent position based in Wellington
  • Salary range: $101,911 - $121,196 + Kiwisaver

 

The Government Property Office is accountable for the strategic leadership of the government’s office accommodation portfolio and provisioning for the centralisation of components of the government’s property function.

 

The Government Property Office is also responsible for delivering on MBIE's own property strategy as well as providing high-quality property management services to MBIE. The government’s office accommodation portfolio is significant, encompassing circa 1,000,000 sqm of office space and a rental spend of circa $330 million per year across 73 agencies, including Crown Agents. MBIE is an agency with a significant property portfolio, encompassing both office and non-office sites, across New Zealand and offshore.

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

 

The Senior Advisor reports to the Lead Advisor Strategy, Operations and Standards within the Strategy and Standards Group. This position contributes to providing strategic advice, critical analysis, recommendations, and support for key business decisions, including investment strategies and initiatives, operational practices, and property standards.

 

The role will also research and prepare:

  • Operational policy documents, i.e. Cabinet papers, business cases, OIA requests;
  • Business operation processes and practices; and
  • Property and workplace standards that enable agency partners across the government office accommodation portfolio and overall property system uplift.

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

 

  • Experience in the government sector with an understanding of Ministerial communications, strategy development, financial analysis, investment strategies and business cases, preferably with a government property context.
  • Experience in providing advisory services and developing business operational processes and practices.
  • Sound working knowledge of the machinery of government.
  • Ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships and develop trust, credibility, buy-in and collaboration with managers, staff, and other stakeholders.
  • Excellent, oral and written communications, including the ability to present complex issues clearly and concisely.
  • A track record of developing and delivering professional guidance and advice.
  • Must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand

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 Graham Pomeroy at Graham.Pomeroy3@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/16724 if you have any further questions.

 

Applications close on Thursday, 6 March.