Senior People Adviser

3 months ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Role Type**: Permanent Full-Time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary Band**: $96,073 to $128,570 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
We are looking for a Senior People Adviser to work in our Wellington office to provide expert advice and support across workforce planning, remuneration, culture development, employment agreements, employment legislation, employment relations, change management, performance management and management development.
Our Senior People Advisers provide advice and support to People Leaders and leadership teams as trusted advisers. They are busy generalist roles that require resilience, agility and a strong customer-focus. The Senior People Adviser is tasked with being proactive with providing People and Capability services to the business, including the implementation and maintenance of MPI People and Capability systems and processes.
The goal is to achieve successful results in the following areas:

- Developing people capability for a diverse and capable organisation;
- Providing customer-centric products and services as an agile trusted adviser; and
- Growing connections within the People and Capability Directorate, across MPI and externally.

Mōu - About You
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 an agile, customer-focused, and trusted adviser.
- Experience in implementing and embedding organisational change to help to achieve objectives, along with knowledge of relevant and current employment legislation will be critical.
- Previous experience working with and navigating collective employment agreements in an operational environment is advantageous and will enable you to hit the ground running.
- In addition, you will be a strong communicator and effective at building trusted relationships a national team spread across multiple locations, People Leaders and staff, employee representatives and unions.

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
Our People Advisory team, based in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland, provide trusted advice on strategy, policy and programmes aligned to our strategy, and supports the enabling of its implementation. 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.

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
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.

**Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua**: - Benefits of working at MPI
- Additional MPI leave days
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation
- Annual Wellness payment

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working
We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.

Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.
In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values, your whakapapa; 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.

Applications close at 11:5pm on 3 September

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