Senior Advisor

4 hours ago


Upper Hutt, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Senior Advisor Regulatory Strategy

**Location**: Wellington CBD

**Salary Starting from**: $94,854

**Reporting to**: Principal Advisor Regulatory Strategy

**Flexibility Options**: Flexible work options available

**Travel**: Occasional

We are looking for a strong thought leader who can drive delivery of outcomes whilst building strong internal and external relationships.

Mō te tūnga | About the role
The purpose of Te Tari Pūreke, Firearms Safety Authority business unit is to enable New Zealand to be a world leader in arms safety through an effective regulatory and administrative approach to the Arms Act and Arms Regulations.
Te Tari Pūreke has been established to lead, operate, and develop investment in modernisation of the firearms system. This will result in a more efficient and effective risk-based licensing system, introduction of comprehensive performance indicators, and shall improve public confidence in the firearms licensing system. The modernisation of the Arms Regulatory System will take every opportunity to prevent harm through transparent, high quality, consistent, legislatively correct, and effective regulatory activities, administration, education, and promotion of compliance with the provisions of the Arms Act and Arms Regulations.

The Senior Advisor Regulatory Strategy role will support the development of the Regulatory strategy, ensuring it is frequently reviewed to ensure it reflects the evolutionary journey of the Regulator, the progress that is made and ensuring dependencies and emerging trends are proactively identified and managed. The position will also support integrated business planning practices across the Regulator, covering the key activities we undertake to operationalise strategy and lead reporting requirements.

**Takohanga Matua | Key Accountabilities**:

- Support the development and reviews of the Regulatory strategy
- Ensure clear linkages between vision, strategic priorities and work programmes and plans.
- Work with each function within the unit to elicit strategic challenges and opportunities, environmental conditions
- Support the Principal Advisor to conduct environmental scans to anticipate impacts on the Regulator, the overarching Firearms system and firearms safety, particularly with reference to new capability and international trends
- Work in collaboration with the Firearms system performance team on the overall system performance measures and trends to elicit strategic challenges and opportunities.
- Develop plans and approaches to give effect to regulatory strategy programmes of change - including providing advice on priorities
- Provide direction and support for the operational delivery of Regulatory Strategy across the business unit
- Ensure the key concepts of Māori responsiveness, policing excellence, and prevention first are adhered to in all projects and initiatives.
- Recommend, contribute to and maintain best practice regulatory tools, frameworks and systems.
- Support the Principal Advisor, Regulatory Strategy to drive the agenda on regulatory policy and regulation interventions, through drafting of appropriate scope, discussion, noting topics and other papers to the Leadership team, be a highly effective regulator and improves firearms safety
- Contribute to the collation, researching and business analysis of information that supports the quarterly and annual reporting cycle
- Present and communicate advice clearly and concisely, including preparing high quality reports and presentations that meet the needs of the audience

**Qualifications / Requirements**:
Relevant tertiary qualification, or equivalent experience preferred

**Pre-Employment Checks**:

- A standard vetting check is required.
- Drug and alcohol testing

**Experience is to include**:

- Demonstrated intellectual leadership, bringing new ideas, challenging the status quo, and exploring opportunities that may lead to effective and future-focussed solutions.
- Experience in system thinking that looks at the big picture patterns over time, looking at the system for why things happen and seeing and understanding the relationships that will drive change.
- Can think in a creative and strategic manner, accurately anticipating future consequences and trends, painting credible pictures and visions of possible scenarios, and developing strategies and plans in response
- Demonstrated political acumen, strategic and savvy to support robust decision-makin


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