Senior Technical Advisor Cross Agency

2 weeks ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE - Use your technical skills to enhance the Crown’s regulation of the petroleum and minerals sectors
- Great opportunity to work across government and drive meaningful change
- Appointing salary range is $103,290 - $132,471 plus KiwiSaver and Wellness benefit.
- MBIE supports a wide range of flexible working arrangements. Talk to us about what might work for both you and us.

**Tēnei tūranga - About the role**:
The Senior Technical Advisor is a senior regulatory role, supporting MBIE’s regulation of the petroleum and minerals sectors under the Crown Minerals Act 1991 and related legislation.

The Senior Technical Advisor will lead MBIE’s integration with other parts of government in relation to the petroleum and minerals sectors. These include WorkSafe, regional and district councils, the Department of Conservation, and the Environmental Protection Authority. Your role will be to ensure that MBIE joins up with other parts of government to ensure that the petroleum and minerals sectors are regulated efficiently and effectively.

MBIE’s cross agency work is being developed so there is a significant opportunity to design and influence change.
You will work collaboratively with a range of MBIE staff, providing support to managers and senior technical colleagues and helping to coach and mentor junior colleagues.
Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and experience required:
You’ll be recognised as a technical specialist, with the ability to work well within MBIE, across central and local government, with industry participants and with Māori. You will have:

- Technical expertise in one or more of the following - planning/resource management, natural resource law, geology, environmental science, engineering
- Ideally, experience in local government or another regulator of the petroleum and minerals sectors, which you can bring to enhance MBIE’s Crown Minerals Act regulation
- A strong interest in the regulation of the full life-cycle of minerals and petroleum permits, and commitment to ensure that regulation of these sectors is effective, efficient and risk-based
- The ability to understand a complex new situations, identify risks, design solutions and delivery practical outcomes within required frames
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills
- Proven ability to build strong relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and with Māori
- The ability to plan and organise a wide range of tasks and projects 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 whakaara i ngā kaupapakua roa nei e tāmi ana i a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui, ā, e whai ana hoki ki te tautohu i ngā āheinga kōkiritanga mā ngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēnei āheinga.

**Me pēhea te tono - How to apply**:
Applications close on 12 March 20



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