Kaitohu Matua

**Kaitohu Matua, Rautaki** **|** Senior Advisor, Strategy
**Te Puni Rautaki** **|** Strategy
**Te Puni Kokiri** **|** Ministry of M ori Development

Location**:Te Tari Matua, Poneke - National Office, Wellington**

Te Puni Kokiri is the government's principal policy advisor on M ori 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 M ori. This includes our mandate to promote M ori achievement in education, training, health and economic resource development along with performing our monitoring and mentoring roles.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Advisor who is looking to gain meaningful experience in our Strategy Team

The Strategy team is responsible for supporting the strategic direction setting for Te Puni Kokiri. This team provides the Executive Leadership Team with relevant insights and context to inform strategic decision making and facilitates strategy development processes to make those decisions.

**Te whai w hitanga | The opportunity**

An internal facing position, the Senior Advisor, Strategy plays an important role of supporting the Manager Strategy to develop the strategic direction and support its implementation to help Te Puni Kokiri achieve its purpose and priorities.

The role reports to the manager of the Strategy Team and is** based in National office in Wellington,**You will:

- Support the development and implementation of Te Puni Kokiri's Strategic documents and performance mechanisms such as the Strategic Intentions, Long Term Insights Briefing including its preparation, peer review and publishing.
- Engage with managers and teams across Te Puni Kokiri to support the development and delivery of our key strategic documents.
- Assist with the development of the Estimates of Appropriations and output class information ensuring that accountability (including legislative and Treasury) timelines are adhered to
- Providing backup on the oversight of the Estimates and any financial reviews, including co-ordinating the Te Puni Kokiri responses to written questions to the Finance and Expenditure Committee, and the M ori Affairs Select Committee

**Mou | About you**
- Exceptional relationship management skills. Can quickly build in-person rapport with a range of stakeholders.
- Successful experience operating within a Public Service environment with knowledge and understanding the Machinery of Government, Policy process.
- Proficiency with Microsoft packages especially outlook, word, excel and PowerPoint.
- Presentation skills and the personal credibility to be able to speak with authority on behalf Te Puni Kokiri.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of te ao M ori and are comfortable working in an environment where tikanga is observed.
- A high level of commitment to detail, quality, thoroughness and delivery.
- Demonstrated experience in a complex and politically sensitive environment.

**T u e whai ai | What you will get in return**

Te Puni Kokiri is a diverse and rewarding working environment full of passionate people focussed on creating solutions that will help our communities.

There is more to life than just work and we encourage our staff to maintain the right balance between work and personal pursuits. We recognise that a healthy workforce is a productive one, so we're committed to providing opportunities and incentives for our employees to look after themselves, including:

- Optical allowance
- Hauora allowance
- Te Reo M ori proficiency allowance
- Provide enhanced parental leave provisions and childcare allowances.

**Te Puni Kokiri | Ministry of M ori Development**

Te Puni Kokiri is committed to our vision of 'Wh nau Taurikura' - 'Thriving Wh nau'. We consider that when wh nau are thriving, so do their communities, hapu, iwi and all of Aotearoa. This underpins everything we do.

Our people are at the heart of achieving this vision and it is our people who contribute to supporting M ori collective success. They do this by creating and maintaining relationships with iwi, hapu and wh nau M ori and government at both a local and national level. It is this that enables M ori participation and success as M ori, and it is our people who will create a future where all wh nau can thrive.

Ka aki kina koe kia tukuna mai to tononga i tenei rangi tonu, kia whakap ngia r nei tetahi Ringa Taritari e korero ai mo ng painga o tenei whai w hitanga, me tona h ngai ki o wh inga -umanga. Nau mai r ko ng tononga i te reo M ori, te reo P keh, te reorua r nei, ka mutu, e kore to kowhiringa reo e whai p nga kino ki to tononga ahakoa te aha. Ka tirohia ai e m tou ng tononga katoa, ka mutu, kite ana m tou i te tangata tika rawa atu, ka whakatungia ko ia.

Ka aukati ng tono hei te **R tapu 26 Kohit tea 2025 te 11.55pm** | Applications close on **Sunday 26 January 2025 at 11.55pm.