Aporei Tātari

**Aporei, Kaupapa Here** | Principal Advisor (Fixed Term, 12 months)
**Te Puni Kaupapa** | Policy
**Te Puni Kōkiri** | The Ministry of Māori Development

**Location: Te Tari Matua, Pōneke** | National Office, Wellington

Te Puni Kōkiri is the government's principal policy advisor on Māori wellbeing and development. We achieve strategic influence with a focus on providing high quality policy advice and holding other agencies to account for delivering public services to, for and with Māori. This includes our mandate to promote Māori achievement in education, training, health and economic resource development along with performing our monitoring and mentoring roles.

Based in Pōneke Wellington, our Policy Puni leads across the public sector to understand and prioritise issues, needs and opportunities impacting on Māori development and wellbeing. The Puni consists of 8 teams focusing on specific Policy areas.

The Housing team focuses on addressing the barriers that make it difficult to develop housing on whenua Māori and on influencing the housing system (from emergency housing to home ownership) to improve outcomes for whānau. We have an exciting 12 month fixed-term opportunity for a kaimahi at Principal level to contribute to and deliver on this important mahi.

**Te whai wāhitanga | The opportunity**

Providing a high standard of advice to the Policy Manager, Housing other key stakeholders within Te Puni Kōkiri and across the wider public sector you will help lead and contribute to shaping and influencing policy. You will
- Provide credible, evidence-based advice anchored in the context of iwi, hapu, whānau and Māori as it applies to Housing and at a Principal level
- Take responsibility for leading project and workstreams
- Conduct thorough and detailed analysis of complex policy issues to understand their implications and identify potential solutions
- Work collaboratively with peers at Te Puni Kōkiri and with other government agencies including the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Kāinga Ora and councils in developing and influencing policy
- Provide advice and support to Senior and Executive Leadership teams, Ministers and key stakeholders
- Uplift capability within the team through coaching and mentoring kaimahi, and promoting a culture of continuous feedback.

**Mōu | About you**

An experienced policy professional, you will have previous experience in a government policy shop where te ao Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi frameworks underpin your mahi. You will be familiar with the current economic environment in Aotearoa and globally and understand the challenges that Māori organisations and businesses face when aiming to reach their full potential. You will have:

- The mix of knowledge, skills, practices, and behaviours required by a modern policy practitioner to be able to deliver quality policy advice
- Highly competent in prioritising and managing the flow of information. Including managing and supporting multiple, complex policy projects at once
- Knowledge of the current housing environment in Aotearoa, including the barriers that make it difficult to develop housing on whenua Māori
- An understanding of, and ability to prioritise the flow of information and manage complex policy issues
- The conceptual and analytical skills to provide solutions to ambiguous or complex problems
- Proven ability to lead, manage and support cross-government policy development. Relationship focused, you may have existing relationships with iwi, Councils and/or central government
- Have highly developed communication skills, including written. Ideally you will have competency in te reo Māori, or as a minimum have a willingness to learn
- Are comfortable in an ao Māori environment and situations where tikanga is observed.

**Tāu e whai ai | What you will get in return**

Te Puni Kōkiri is a diverse and rewarding working environment full of passionate people focussed on discovering solutions that will assist in serving our communities. We are guided by our values of excellence, valuing people and relationships, working collectively and being creative and innovative.

We invest in our people, and you will be encouraged to develop and contribute to your fullest potential. We believe strongly in work/life balance and understand that your whānau is just as important as you. We are committed to your wellbeing and learning and development.

**Te Puni Kōkiri | Ministry of Māori Development**

Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, supports and works in partnership with the Government to design and deliver policies, as well as innovative targeted investment initiatives that have a significant and positive impact on Māori.

Our commitment to 'Whānau Taurikura' - 'Thriving Whānau' enables whānau, hapū and iwi to succeed underpins everything that we do.

Our people are at the heart of achieving this vision and it is our people who contribute to supporting Māori collective