Senior Policy Advisor Ii

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/Policy Advisors - we want you
- Based at Police National Headquarters, Wellington
- Policy Advisor - Salary starting from $67,873
- Senior Policy Advisor - Salary starting from $87,401 or $94,854
- Permanent

Mō te tūnga - About the roles
We are recruiting for roles across our teams to deliver on an expanding work programme. We’re looking for energetic and capable policy professionals who are looking to advance their career tackling some of New Zealand’s most pressing challenges. Join us and make a real difference for the future of our communities.

The New Zealand Police Policy and Partnership Group provides advice on a remarkable and fascinating range of policy issues from vulnerable children, family harm, and health including drug policy, through to firearms, transport, national security, emergency management, and criminal justice reform. The diversity of our business makes for interesting and challenging policy opportunities across the wide variety of sectors we work with.

**Key accountabilities**:

- Analyse policy issues and develop advice
- Prepare briefings, Cabinet papers, and correspondence
- Develop, or contribute to, project management plans and implements those plans
- Manage relationships with operational staff and represent their views in the development of policy.

**As a policy/senior policy advisor in our group you will**:

- Have a genuine passion to improve the lives of New Zealanders, a positive can-do mindset, and intellectual curiosity
- Contribute your professional expertise to complex, uncertain, critical or significant projects

Mō te tima - About our teams
Criminal Justice Policy
The Criminal Justice Policy Team works with Police groups and other agencies across the criminal justice sector to support legislative changes and policy relating to the administration of justice, the management of offenders, and improvements to the criminal justice system.

The Prevention and Social Policy
The Prevention and Social Policy Team works with Police operations groups, government and non-government agencies across the justice and social sectors on legislative changes and policy relating to social policy issues, in particular strengthening community resilience, family violence and sexual violence, youth and child offending, improving outcomes for Māori, and improving responses for victims of crime.

National Security and International Policy
The National Security and International Team focuses on issues that affect New Zealand and the wider global community such as organised crime, financial crime, cybercrime, and security. It also focuses on border and cross-border issues such as international information sharing, people smuggling and trafficking, counter terrorism, and national security.

Transport and Health Policy
The Transport and Health Policy Team brings together policy and strategic advice on road safety and wider transport issues, together with advice on mental health, alcohol, and other drugs policy. The team works closely with the Ministry of Transport, The New Zealand Transport Agency and the Ministry of Health.

Firearms Policy
The Firearms Policy Team has responsibility for modernising and maintaining the firearms laws, promoting the safe possession and use of firearms and other weapons.

What you’ll bring
Being part of the Police whānau is about being our best to ensure our communities are safe and feel safe. Our Core Competencies provide a shared understanding of the behaviours, leadership and technical competence required for success at each level of Police. Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.

**To be successful in the Policy Advisor role you will need**:

- experience in providing public policy advice on a range of issues
- evidence of working collaboratively with others
- a good understanding of machinery of government.

To be successful in the Senior Policy Advisor role (in addition to the above) you will be:

- comfortable leading policy work and representing Police interests on complex matters in collaboration with other agencies
- confident communicating with a wide range of people including other Police staff, stakeholders and senior leaders

With the support of senior staff or