Learning Project Adviser

**Role type**: Permanent, full-time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary range**: $68,781 to $93,056 depending on skills and experience
- Are you passionate about helping small creative teams to achieve their project outcomes?
- Do you have a love of systems, process and continuous improvement?
- Are you a people person, driven to help individuals to succeed?

If you love projects and working alongside smart colleagues delivering quality solutions, you'll be a great fit for our team.
Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
We're looking for someone to help the team continue to deliver value to our customers, while managing the pipeline of work across the team's capacity.

**Working as part of our L&D team, you will**:

- Work with our seniors and customers to update on project progress and help plan future work to build the pipeline and manage changing priorities.
- Work with cross functional teams to deliver solutions as efficiently as possible, while clearing the path for success.
- Work with individuals to use peoples' strengths, manage workloads and balance the overall team capacity.

You'll be involved in projects from start to finish. You'll use system, data and analytics to help leadership make decisions. You'll take a key role in driving continuous improvement and will provide advice to leadership on building a high performing team.
Mōu - About You
You're a people focused person who enjoys working with people at all levels of an organisation, and with different skills. You know how to get the best out of people and create high performing teams, and you know how to create a continuous improvement culture.
You'll have some experience as a project adviser; perhaps you're a project assistant ready to take the next step in your career. You're tech savvy and happy to find your way around different tools and technologies that help teams plan, visualise and communicate work.

**To be successful in the role you will have**:

- Strong interpersonal skills
- Experience in delivering projects or programmes and managing relationships
- Strong digital literacy
- A coaching and continuous improvement mindset
- A relevant degree level qualification or equivalent experience.

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
Our Learning and Development whānau sit within the wider People and Capability Team. We are a large, national team where there are many opportunities with an emphasis on fostering a positive team culture. We work collaboratively and enjoy having fun along the way.
Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
The Ministry for Primary Industries is helping to seize export opportunities for our primary industries, improve sector productivity, ensure the food we produce is safe, increase sustainable resource use, and protect New Zealand from biological risk.
MPI is a place where there are diverse opportunities and where there is the ability to create a career in an organisation that supports growth and development.
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Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Additional MPI leave days
- Ability to purchase extra annual leave
- Access to free professional confidential counselling

Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whanau and hāpori.
In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values, your whakapapa; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.
Applications close at midnight on Wednesday 30 November
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