Associate Policy Advisor

• Help create a better Aotearoa for all
• You’ll be supported to grow and develop as part of our MBIE whānau
• Apply now to start in February 2025
• Salary – $ 63,278 pa
• Permanent Wellington based

We are looking for four Associate Policy Advisors to start with us in February 2025.

As an Associate Policy Advisor, you'll be tackling real-life problems and make a lasting difference in the life of New Zealanders.

You'll get stuck into real, meaningful work – researching topical issues, analysing key trends and helping us deliver projects and programmes. We will support you to build the skills and knowledge necessary to step fully into a career in policy and progress to be a Policy Advisor in a year’s time

Policy professionals provide the evidence and information Ministers need to make informed decisions on public policy issues. Policy at MBIE involves exciting and challenging mahi that could see you looking at a wide range of issues; How do we grow tourism value while maintaining the support of communities? How do we lift New Zealand’s poor productivity to help us afford the nice things? How do we ensure that firms continue to have access to skills and labour needed to grow output while minimising the impact migration can have on New Zealand’s infrastructure and social services?

We're looking for passionate people with diverse perspectives and backgrounds, who love an intellectual challenge and who want to help create a better New Zealand. 

We value our people and reflect the communities we serve. We want people to bring their unique identities into the way they work. We invite diversity and harness our differences to “Grow New Zealand for all”.  Our staff-led networks include Ngai Kahukura – Rainbow Network, Te Aka Matua – Māori Staff Network Forum, Te Aumangea - Mental Health Network, Pacific Staff Village, and Arahanga Wahine – Women’s Network. 
 

• Sound written communication skills 
• Ability to problem solve 
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to change

 
Minimum requirements:

• You can have no more than one-year post-graduation full-time work experience
• You must have graduated, or will finish your study, before February 2025
• You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand
• You must pass all our employment vetting and approval standards 

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.

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 Dorinda Te Kiri at dorinda.tekiri@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/15950 if you have any further questions.

Applications close 27 October 2024