People Adviser | Wellington City

Job Description

Job Title: People Adviser

Role type: Full time, fixed term until October 2025

Location: Wellington

Salary band & range: F $74,964 to $87,466 depending on skills and experience

About the Role - Kōrero mō te Tūranga

We are looking for a People Adviser to provide advice and support across workforce planning, remuneration, employment agreements, employment legislation, employment relations, change management and performance management. Your HR qualification will be put to great use within this busy team.

Our People Advisers provide advice and support to People Leaders as trusted advisers. This is a busy generalist role that requires resilience, agility, and a strong customer-focus.

The goal is to achieve successful results in the following areas:

• Developing people capability for a diverse organisation
• Providing customer-centric products and services as an agile and trusted adviser
• Working collaboratively within the People and Capability Directorate, and across MPI.

About You - Mōu

Key to your success in this role will be your excellent relationship management skills – you need to be able to quickly develop and maintain trust and confidence with key customers and senior leaders across a wide range of disciplines. Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) is essential.

• Naturally, you will offer previous experience in generalist HR work within a large and complex organisation as a customer-focused and trusted adviser.
• Experience in implementing and embedding organisational change to help to achieve its objectives
• Knowledge of relevant and current employment legislation
• Previous experience working with and navigating collective employment agreements in an operational environment is advantageous
• A strong communicator and effective at building trusted relationships with a national team spread across multiple locations, People Leaders and staff, employee representatives and unions.

You do not need to meet all of the role requirements to apply. We offer a breadth of development and learning opportunities and will welcome an application if you think you could make a great fit.

About the Team - Mō tō mātou Rōpū

Our People Advisory team are based in Wellington, Christchurch, and Auckland. Providing trusted advice on strategy as well as policy and programmes aligned to our strategy. We provide advice and support to staff on employment relations, conduct, remuneration, negotiating collective agreements, change management and much more. We also work with managers on developing strategies for growing their teams' leadership and management capability, and help teams realise their potential.

About MPI - Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua

Our role includes seizing export opportunities for our food and fibre sector, improving sector productivity, ensuring the food we produce is safe, increasing sustainable resource use, and protecting New Zealand from biological risk.

Benefits of working at MPI - Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua

• Additional MPI leave days
• Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation
• Annual Wellness payment

Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake?

We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.

We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes, and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.

Applications close at 11.59pm 22 April 2025

If you have any questions about the role, please email Sophie.Hallett@mpi.govt.nz 

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