Senior Advisor Benefits and Planning

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- **Salary Range $101,000 - $121,000**:

- **Permanent Role Wellington Central**

**Tenei turanga - About the Role**:
The current government has been clear on its objective to grow the New Zealand economy. Recently, it announced its intention to unleash the potential of New Zealand businesses, by strengthening efforts that are already underway to deliver economic growth, and drive new initiatives designed to promote growth and productivity in the New Zealand economy. This emphasises the importance of designing and delivering programmes of work to transform MBIEs services and therefore contribute to economic growth. In Business Operations we support the Senior Management Team and the Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery (TWSD) group to plan programmes and initiatives that ensure we are making the right decisions about how we invest in our services, and that we achieve intended outcomes and benefits across the numerous regulatory systems that TWSD interacts with.

The Senior Advisor Benefits and Planning works with branch business management functions, leading the process for annual business planning and work programme development to inform the TWSD Portfolio pipeline and investment planning process and oversees the benefits management and realisation practices across TWSDs portfolio of projects and programmes.

Key responsibilities include:

- Running TWSDs annual planning process in line with the Corporate planning process, including providing templates and guidance to TWSD branches, providing ongoing support and advice to business management teams as they develop their plans, and for continuous improvement and uplift of business and work programme capability across the group.
- Providing strategic guidance and advice to senior leaders and initiative leads on the creation and alignment of benefits to strategic outcomes and their ongoing monitoring to ensure investment decisions realise their intended outcomes.
- Promoting MBIEs benefits methodologies and processes, and work with the Portfolio Analyst to ensure quality benefits reporting and tracking processes are established to determine the ongoing progress of the TWSD portfolio of initiatives through to benefits realisation.
- Supporting the determination and quality of benefits through the Koru process, review of business case benefits and benefits audits to ensure that benefits artefacts are in place and benefits are tracking to plan.

**Nga pukenga me nga wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required**
- **Sound experience working in benefits management and business planning or similar roles in a medium to large public sector organiation**:

- **Relevant project and/or programme management certifications desirable e.g. PRINCE2, Benefits Mgmt., ILM, Agile, BABOK.**:

- **Proven knowledge and experience of benefit management activities, methodologies, and their effective practices, particlarly how they align with strategic objectives and their role in the machinery of government.**:

- **Experience running workshops to identify problem statements and facilitate benefits and solutions.**:

- **Experience in reviewing initiative briefings and business cases for effective benefit outcomes and alignment to benefits frameworks and practices.**:

- **Proven experience in driving implementation of process and performance improvements.**:

- **Ability to influence stakeholders and encourage engagment and compliance with group processses.**:

- **Excellent verbal and written communication skills that effectively influence a variety of audiences and stakeholders up and down the organisation.**:

- **Proven personal drive, self-management, and self-awareness to be able to change direction when presented with constructive feedback.**:

- **Advanced quantitative and qualitative analysis skills, using data and industry best practices to present compelling recommendations.**:

- **Ability to work within a team environment and establish good working relationships with inside and outside the organization.**:

- **Ideally have exposure or facilitated Investment Logic Mapping exercises.**:

- **Demonstrates strong interpersonal and political awareness skills and experience.**:

- **High standards of attention to detail and written English.**:

- **Proven personal drive, self-management, and self-awareness to be able to change direction when presented with constructive feedback.**

**Etahi korero mo 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 economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which sh