Senior Adviser (Performance) | Wellington City

Job Description

Senior Adviser (Performance)

Role type: Permanent, full-time

Location: Wellington

Salary range: General Salary Range D, with offers generally made at the midpoint depending on skills and experience: $98,955 - $115,691 (mid-point) - $132,427 per annum.

About the Role - Kōrero mō te Tūranga

We are looking for an experienced organisational performance professional to join the Biosecurity Strategy, Performance & Treaty Partnerships directorate.

This is a great opportunity to combine your communication, performance reporting, strategic analysis, relationship management and business planning & reporting skills. You will need to identify trends and be skilled in translating a broad variety of financial and non-finaincial data into meaningful and accessible information.  The insights you provide to senior leaders will assist in identifing opportunities, enhancing our service delivery performance and supporting quality business outcomes.

As a Senior Adviser, you will:

• Produce internal performance reports and presentations for Bisoecuirty New Zealand
• Prepare external accountability reporting including coordination of Select Committee Questions
• End-to-end process development and improvement, including gathering and analysing information, evaluating solutions, testing, and presenting findings and recommendations, with a focus on data usage.
• Manage relationships with Directors, Managers and other stakeholders.

About You - Mōu

We are looking for someone to bring:

• Experience in the development of business performance indicators that accurately measure delivery against organisational objectives.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, with an ability to present complex information to a range of audiences.
• Excellent relationship management skills and demonstrated success in working across business groups in a collaborative manner.
• Ability to provide advice and reporting based on insights-driven analysis to support robust decision-making processes
• Ability to identify issues, problems, and then opportunities including a strategic and analytical mindset
• Knowledge and understanding of the public sector and the machinery of government
• Proven ability to plan, prioritise and organise your workload to ensure that deadlines are met and work is delivered to an agreed standard.

About the Team - Mō tō mātou Rōpū

The Performance team work across the branch to lift Biosecurity NZ's strategic capability and performance – integrating performance measurements, reporting, governance, and planning to enhance capability and assist Biosecurity NZ in achieving its goals.

We are developing a performance measurement programme for Biosecurity NZ, which includes specific Service Performance Measures along with broader impact measures that help our people know how well we're going, and to tell our story to those we are accountable to. 

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
• Annual Wellness payment
• Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

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” 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 on Sunday, 25 May.

If you have any questions about the role, please email the hiring manager, Ben Pocock, at ben.pocock@mpi.govt.nz

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