Senior Advisor Governance

7 months ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Wellington based position
- Permanent, fulltime role
- Starting range $100,441 and $111,601

Supports the Manager Governance to provide advice to the Chief Executive and the Oranga Tamariki Leadership Team.

Mō mātou | About us
Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children has a commitment to putting tamariki and rangatahi at the heart of what we do. In our work, we aim to demonstrate these values:

- We put Tamariki first
- We believe Aroha is vital
- We respect the Mana of people
- We are Tika and Pono
- We value Whakapapa
- We recognise that Oranga is a journey

We are committed to ensuring that New Zealand is the best place in the world to be a child. We are also committed to ensuring Oranga Tamariki partners with hapū, iwi and Māori organisations to find appropriate solutions for tamariki in need.

Mō te tūnga | About the role
Through your support of the Governance Manager, you will assist in providing advice to the Chief Executive and the Oranga Tamariki Leadership Team on governance matters, as well as managing processes to ensure an effective and efficient governance system.
A key part of this role is to contribute to an efficient and effective secretariat function to governance committees and boards. You will work closely with Chairs and committee members to provide strategic and operational governance advice, as well as giving support and guidance to the organisation to ensure our committees are getting high quality information for decision making.
You will work alongside an exceptional, supportive and knowledgeable team with opportunities for learning and development, and a new governance system will provide you with the opportunity to influence and establish best practice governance processes and protocols.

Ngā pūmanawatanga ōu | What you will bring

**To succeed in this role your experience will include**:

- Have experience in developing, leading and providing advice on governance processes
- Design and implement pragmatic process design and improvement
- Have experience providing secretariat services and advice to committees, boards, project teams and other similar groups
- Have strong analytical skills to support informed decision making
- Understand the public sector, ideally with an understanding of organisational governance
- Are highly efficient in managing multiple priorities and delivering high quality work, on time

Nōu te rourou | What's in it for you
At Oranga Tamariki we want to empower our people with flexible working arrangements to be their best at both work and home, and ultimately better meet the needs of our tamariki. That is why we are embracing flexible working by default. Our approach is that all roles are treated as flexible unless there is a good business reason not to be and working flexibly does not undermine career progression or opportunities.

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