Senior Property Portfolio Specialist

2 weeks ago

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time
Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

  • Use your extensive commercial and property expertise in the public sector to enhance the Government property portfolio
  • Unique opportunity to be part of a system wide property function
  • Permanent fulltime opportunity, based in Wellington
  • Salary range $96,453 to $115,585 plus KiwiSaver and Wellness Benefit

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:
We have an opportunity for an experienced property specialist to join our team. You will be enthusiastic about influencing Government's property portfolio and supporting agencies with their property requirements.


The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment are the system lead for property across the Public sector and this role sits within the Government Property Group (GPG).

You will report to the Manager Property, Planning & Advisory, and will ensure that government agency property activity aligns with the public sector expectations and the Government office accommodation programme.

Interested? Read on


Most of your stakeholders will be at the senior level and you will be the expert for pragmatic solutions to an agency's property requirements.

You will be innovative with solutions as well as be able to broker opportunities across the Government portfolio for your agencies.

You will seek out opportunities to enhance the government property portfolio including co-location opportunities within shared government office accommodation and alignment with good practice design standards.

We require a portfolio approach to be taken so that the portfolio can deliver of four expectations that Government has for the portfolio:

  • Community focus; agencies are connected with citizens, especially in the Regions
  • Collaboration; property enables agencies to collaborate and colocate
  • Valuing People; buildings demonstrate that we value people and enable people to do their jobs better
  • Public Value; value for money for the taxpayer
Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required

  • Considerable commercial and property experience within government, a regulatory environment or the private sector
  • Demonstrated ability to critically analyse complex commercial and property situations and to recommend and design robust solutions
  • Significant experience in influencing and negotiating with stakeholders, suppliers, property managers, landlords and senior managers
  • The ability to contribute to the development of business cases, including a high standard of writing, particularly for business and/or Ministerial audience
  • Excellent interpersonal skills; demonstrated by credibility, personal or collaborative influence, managing expectations and targeted persuasion
  • High degree of political nous and a strong working knowledge of the machinery of government
  • Considerable experience in dealing with ambiguity in a complex and dynamic environment

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

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