Ministerial Adviser

**Ministerial Adviser**

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

**Location**: Wellington City

**Salary band & range**:General Salary Range F**:$76,463 to $89,215 depending on skills and experience_ _

**About the Role - Korero mo te Turanga**

We are looking for a Ministerial Adviser to join our supportive and collaborative team within MPI's Government Services directorate in the Public Affairs business unit. This role is the heart of our Government Services directorate, providing high quality, impartial advice, and support across both MPI and our Ministers' offices. This team delivers ministerial correspondence and advice, ministerial responses, answers to written and oral parliamentary questions, event briefings for ministerial visits, and engagements with select committees, while upholding MPI's processes and procedures in accordance with DPMC guidelines.

Due to the reactive nature of this role, you will be required to assist and service our Ministers from our **Wellington office, five days per week.**

In this role, you will:

- Manage and foster essential relationships at all levels across the Ministry.
- Control competing priorities across many ministerial and stakeholder requests, while ensuring compliance with MPI's policies and standards.
- Facilitate and advise on correspondence to the Minister's office, staying accountable for deadlines and the quality of advice.
- Assess trends and issues and engage with others to seek solutions to continually improve the performance of the Ministry.

**About You - Mou**

We are looking for someone with an interest in the primary industries and the machinery of government, and value those with a commitment to develop, and have a passion to advance their career within Government.

To be succesful in this role, your experience will include:

- Understanding of the machinery of government and ministerial processes, with sound political nous and judgement.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an eye for accuracy, detail and quality.
- Ability to identify and effectively mitigate risks.
- Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to work at all levels of an organisation and be comfortable in advising senior leadership.
- An ability to self-manage your time and remain calm, flexible, and focused to deliver to tight timeframes as needed.
- An ability to react quickly and thrive in rapidly changing environments as the Ministerial team frequently manage sudden surges in volume, such as if a biosecurity incursion occurs.

Desirable:

- Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience

**About the Team** - **Mo to matou Ropu**

The Ministerial team is situated in our Public Affairs business unit within our Government Services directorate. We are a team of ten, comprising of Ministerial Advisers, Senior Advisers, and a Principal Adviser, all from a variety of work and national backgrounds.

The team is welcoming, supportive, and value each other's input. While you would be managing your own portfolio independently, the wider team is constantly collaborating and problem solving together.

**About MPI - Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua**

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) partners with New Zealand's food and fibre sector to be the world's most trusted provider of high-value food and primary products.

To find out more about the Ministry and what we do please click here.

**Benefits of working at MPI - Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua**
- Additional MPI leave days
- Annual Wellness payment
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

**Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake?**

We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; 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 11.59pm on Sunday, 10 April.**

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