Lead Advisor Regional Public Service

Lead Advisor Regional Public Service
Fixed Term or Secondment opportunity to June 2025
Location: New Plymouth

The Lead Advisor will provide high level strategic and operational advice and support to the Regional Public Service Commissioner (RPSC) on strategy implementation, multi-agency and stakeholder engagement. 

The mandate for the RPSC and the Regional Leadership Framework are embedded in the Public Service Act 2020, which aims to ensure New Zealand’s public service is modern, joined-up and citizen-focussed.

Purpose of the Lead Advisor Regional Public Service

Provide high level strategic advice and leadership across agencies and stakeholder engagement. This role will lead collaborative outcomes that drive positive change within priority areas including Better Public Service Goals. This includes housing security, wellbeing, educational achievement and attendance, emergency preparedness, responses to high-risk communities and individuals.

Your responsibilities

• Provide high level strategic and operational advice to the RPSC.

• Take complex ideas/concepts and collaboratively develop these into practical actions including obtaining engagement, commitment and buy-in from relevant stakeholders.

• Continuously scan the environment to identify opportunities, risks, and strengths. Make recommendations and create strategies to ensure continuous improvement.

• Lead, contribute to and coordinate working groups and inter-agency forums to effectively progress solutions to complex issues across business and other sectors.

• Lead key relationships with iwi and Māori accords and agreements.

• Embed and create the conditions for Te Ao Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi in all decisions.

• Establish, build, and grow effective relationships with stakeholders, including central and local government and non-government agencies, and iwi.

• Research and write reports for the RPSC.

You have

• Experience in a central government agency and understand the political systems (conventions, structures, functions, and objectives) and the wider cultural, economic, and social environment.

• Excellent communications skills, computer literacy including Microsoft packages.

• Advanced Te Reo and Te Ao Māori skills.

• A degree level qualification in public administration, social policy or similar qualification is desirable.

Position Description

Salary range: $141,109.00

How to apply

Click the 'Apply Now' button to upload your CV, cover letter and complete the online application form. 

 
Note: Your cover letter will be a key part of our assessment process, so please highlight how your experience relates to the key responsibilities listed in the position description.

 
All applications must be made online. If this is not possible or if you have any queries, please contact . 

Internal MSD Employees – please apply through your myHR portal at work. This will ensure that your myHR employee profile is visible as internal candidate.

Closing date: Thursday, 30 May 2024

About us

 
The Ministry of Social Development is a people-centred organisation. We’re in communities across the motu, working with partners to help New Zealanders be safe, strong and independent.

 
We provide social policy and advice to government and assistance, including income, employment and housing support to people of all ages, families, whānau and communities.

 
As a Te Tiriti o Waitangi partner we are committed to supporting and enabling Māori, whānau, hapū, Iwi and communities to realise their own potential and aspirations.

 
Our people are as diverse as the communities we serve. We care about the wellbeing and success of our people and provide a supportive and inclusive working environment where people can thrive and be who they are.

Joining us

Joining MSD means being part of a whānau that celebrates the diversity each individual represents.

We show manaaki, we care about the wellbeing and success of people and want everyone to thrive and be who they are in a supportive and inclusive working environment.

We work together to make a difference for communities while doing the right thing with integrity. 

We are a Treaty partner committed to strengthening relationships with Māori, Hapū, Iwi and communities to realise their own potential and aspirations.

If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to tell us when you apply so we can assist you through the recruitment process.

 
MSD has a COVID-19 vaccination policy that encourages, but does not require, employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 and its variants, unless the role is identified as requiring vaccination at the time.