Senior Policy Advisor - Consumer Policy, Financial Markets Policy and Competition Policy

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Influence the policy settings that underpin how business and consumers interact
• Make a difference to New Zealander’s wellbeing
• Permanent, Wellington CBD location
• $110,098 - $138,028 plus KiwiSaver and wellness benefit.

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

We are looking for three Senior Policy Advisors to join our Consumer Policy Financial Markets Policy, and Competition Policy teams. All three teams work on issues that affect everyday consumers and engage stakeholders across the economy.

These teams sit within the Commerce, Consumers and Business (CCB) branch of the Building Resources and Markets business group. MBIE’s CCB branch is the Government’s lead advisor on the commercial environment in which all New Zealand businesses and consumers operate. We look after the laws and institutions that underpin how businesses and consumers interact with each other including: competition, fair trading and consumer guarantees, financial conduct, corporate governance, intellectual property, small businesses, and stewardship of the dispute resolution system.

The Consumer Policy team leads advice to the Government on whether our consumer laws are working well for both businesses and consumers. Our current main priorities include:

• Progressing legislation to allow consumers to use their data and enable things like open banking
• Reviewing consumer credit legislation as part of the Government’s financial services reforms 
• Coordinating efforts across government to tackle the issue of financial scams.

The Financial Markets Policy team leads advice on the conduct settings of our financial markets and financial institutions. Our current main priorities include:

• Reviewing legislation that is designed to improve the conduct of financial institutions like banks and insurers and increase consumer access to dispute resolution
• Assessing where improvements to our capital markets can be made so it is easier for businesses to raise capital and to grow the economy
   

The Competition Policy team leads advice on New Zealand’s competition settings and competition institutions. Our current priorities include:

• Advising on competition and economic regulation issues as they rise across the economy.
• Engagement on international competition issues including supporting MFAT in negotiation of international agreements relating the competition law.
• Leading legislation designing the economic regulation of water services under Local Water Done Well.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana -

Skills and Experience Required
 

We are looking for motivated people with experience in solving tricky policy problems and formulating high-quality policy and regulatory advice for a range of issues and projects. For the role of Principal Policy Advisor, you will have advanced policy skills and ideally you will: 

• Have a good base of experience in public policy as a Policy Advisor/Senior Policy Advisor or transferrable skills from an advisory, regulatory, legal or similar role.
• Be a logical thinker, problem solver, and have a healthy level of curiosity.
• Bring knowledge of policy development disciplines and processes.
• Enjoy working on tricky problems, generating ideas and coming up with solutions.
• Have or want to improve your cultural capability and knowledge of te ao Māori, te reo Māori and how Te Tiriti o Waitangi informs our work. 
• Have the ability to build relationships with others and work collaboratively.
• Have the ability to work through ambiguity and deliver results. 
• Have been involved in leading complex projects.
• Enjoy and be passionate about leading and coaching others to develop their policy craft and take their careers to the next level.
• Display strong stakeholder relationship building, influencing and engagement skills to gain the cooperation and commitment of others.

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 Demi Matheson at demi.matheson@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/15967 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on Friday, 08 November (midnight). 

We may review applications as they are received and may invite you to interview before the role closes.  If you are interested in the role, please don't hesitate to apply.