Kaihāpai Māori

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- New opportunity for an experienced Senior Advisor to play a key role in improving and delivering Māori-Crown capacity within MBIE
- Influence and guide across MBIE groups and managers
- Flexible working options that benefit you, your family and our organisation
- Permanent position, Wellington based and open to alternative locations
- Salary range: $101,911 - $121,196 plus kiwisaver

Māori are the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand. Grounded in the foundations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi, we aim to proactively listen to and recognise the needs of our kaimahi Māori and ultimately our Māori communities to enable their economic, employment and wellbeing aspirations.

**Tēnei tūranga - About the Role**:
The Senior Advisor to the Kaihautu Māori (Director Mātauranga Māori) will have the title Kaihāpai Māori and their role will be to enable the effective and efficient delivery of the Kaihautu Māori work programme and ensure coordination across various projects.

Kaihāpai Māori will provide specialist trusted advice to Kaihautu Māori and will often be required to develop and coordinate communications to inform the MBIE Senior Leadership Team about relevant work across the organisation
This is a great opportunity where you will work with a small and tight knit team, working enterprise wide, with the variety of MBIE’s 19 regulatory systems and portfolio across Aotearoa.

The Mātauranga team is primarily to advise the Chief Executive on matters relating to Māori in MBIE’s vast responsibilities. We are also responsible for better connecting and embedding mātauranga (knowledge and practice) into MBIE’s systems to advance Māori, and grow Aotearoa for all. This team is fast paced and has responsibility across the enterprise.
You have a rare opportunity to join us at a pivotal time where MBIE is embedding te ao Māori into how it operates at the enterprise level and your advice and work ethic can help shape the outcome.
What This Role Offers
A career with MBIE will offer you interesting, varied and meaningful work that makes a real difference to the lives of New Zealanders. We’re a large, far-reaching organisation undertaking complex and diverse work, this means there are opportunities to take on new and interesting work.
We’ll also help you manage a healthy work-life balance — with flexible working options that benefit you, your family and our organisation.
To find out more about MBIE’s culture and benefits click here.
Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required
- Knowledge and experience of te ao Māori and te ao Māori practices; tikanga, te reo and a comprehensive understanding of the Treaty, Te Tiriti and the Treaty Principles.
- Good knowledge of the aspiration of tāngata whenua and MBIE’s work to Partner with Māori and the capability to work across MBIE and the business groups to achieve the outcomes.
- Ability to quickly assimilate new information or areas of work.
- An ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing with a wide range of people at all levels, both internal and external to MBIE.
- Demonstrated ability to influence while developing trust and credibility with senior stakeholders.
- Ability to think and act strategically; can identify and assess potential outcomes anticipate consequences, correctly frame risk, and recommend a way forward.
- Must have legal right to live and work in Aotearoa NZ.
- Fluent te reo is not a requirement but is highly valued. 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 Māor