Principal Policy Advisor, Building for Climate

1 week ago

Auckland City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Are you interested in helping New Zealand meet its climate change challenges?
- Are you interested in helping to transform the building and construction sector?
- One fixed term position available (up to 30 June 2025), flexible location - preferred Wellington, but open to Auckland, Christchurch, or Dunedin
- Flexible working environment and hours available
- Salary: $132,417 to $160,472 p.a. + Kiwisaver + Employee Wellness Benefit MBIE’s Building for Climate Change team is working to reduce emissions from buildings during their construction and operation, and to also ensure New Zealand’s buildings are resilient enough to withstand changing climate conditions.

The building and construction sector is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions which are emitted when building materials are produced, buildings are constructed, and energy is used in buildings during their operation.

If New Zealand is to achieve its climate change goals, including net zero carbon by 2050, the building and construction sector must play its part.

How we work The Building for Climate Change team is a fun, collaborative and supportive environment, with established peer learning initiatives, cross-team working, and lots of opportunities for engaging with stakeholders. All our people are talented and unique. We work towards creating a workplace environment where you belong and that enables you to do what you do best. We support diversity so that together we can do work that positively impacts the lives of all New Zealanders.

Crown / Māori partnership is at the heart of our work, and enduring, meaningful, and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations are critical to delivering on our ambition of reducing emissions from the building and construction sectors.

**What you would be working on**: You will be leading the Non-Regulatory Interventions workstream within the Building for Climate Change programme. The Programme is tasked with delivering the Government’s climate change response for building and construction through the Emissions Reduction Plan and jointly leading one of the five outcomes of ‘homes, buildings and places’ in the National Adaptation Plan. A key part of delivering on these actions is helping to move the sector from its current state where climate considerations are niche to one where they are mainstream.

In this role you will have responsibility for leading relevant policy analysis and research to develop and implement a range of initiatives aimed at reducing building and construction sector emissions. You’ll be engaging with key stakeholders, and providing your policy and technical skills to guide, establish and evaluate emissions reduction and adaptation programmes. You’ll also be leading our thinking and advice to Ministers about how to drive change and innovation and how to influence the way they people design, construct, and operate buildings.

Could this be of interest to you? This may be of interest if you have experience in behavioural science or behavioural insights, public policy, planning and resource management, economics, climate change, or the building, energy, communications, or similar infrastructure sectors.
Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required

**Ideally you will**:

- Have strong experience in developing policy advice, including a good working knowledge of machinery of government processes and policy project management.
- Have an interest in climate change or familiarity with the building and construction sector
- Have a good understanding of behavioural science and how it can be applied to help solve complex real-life policy problems
- Have the ability to quickly assimilate complex issues across multiple policy areas and distil insights into practical solutions
- Have experience using a broad range of behavioural insights designs and approaches, including quantitative and qualitative methods.
- Be excellent at communicating complex information
- Be intellectually curious
- Be good at building relationships with stakeholders, delivery agencies and government
- Have experience leading multiple complex pieces of work
- Have a strong ability to achieve results through others, including empowering team members, influencing other teams and agencies, and maintaining extensive policy and external networks.

If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you.

**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 econom

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