Domain Specialist

**Domain Specialist - L1**
- Great opportunity to combine your tax technical knowledge and passion for learning
- Agile environment and flexible work practices where you can prioritise your professional developmentFixed term opportunity until June 2025.

**Ara Whiwhi Mahi **| The Opportunity**

As a Domain Specialist in the Policy team, designing and developing a range of foundational tax technical learning products and support systems.

This Learning and Development specialist will work with Inland Revenue’s organisational learning team and the tax technical L+D team to ensure we:

- Have processes in place to capture individual and aggregated development needs
- Work closely with the Domain Principal, Organisational Learning and the broader learning community to ensure alignment and integration of Policy learning and development with the organisation-wide approachSource, implement and evaluate appropriate development solutions targeting our identified needs.
- **In this role you will**:

- Ensure learning is delivered in a variety of formats supporting people’s individual learning styles, ensuring learning and development opportunities are accessible, inclusive, and applicable to the diversity of our workforce
- Working with Policy Leads and Advisors to identify specific development needs
- Manage the environment within which learning, and development content is stored, accessed, and delivered
- Being the Policy representative on networked teams, particularly with the People Strategy and Capability team, using insights to continuously improve Policy Learning and Development
- Working closely with SLT members to ensure the Policy Learning and Development programme is achieving strategic objectives for the groupEvaluate the effectiveness and comprehensiveness of existing learning and development initiatives utilising the organisation-wide Learning Framework

**Mōu | About you**

To be successful in this role, you will need to bring:

- Learning & Development all-rounder, likes to work in the detail and doesn’t mind rolling up their sleeves
- Prior experience in a learning and development role (minimum of 2-3 years)
- Experience leading or contributing to learning initiatives in a complex and diverse organisation, ideally in the leadership development space
- Critical thinking ability and a natural curiosity
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- An ability to build positive working relationships at all levels
- Knowledge of the external learning provider market and procurement experience
- Strong data and analytics skills
- An ability to plan and manage priorities
- The ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
- Experience working with internal customers to design and develop learning solutions
- The ability to provide high quality information, advice and services to internal customers by understanding and tailoring responses to their needsAn awareness of digital accessibility
- **Mō mātou | About us**

The Policy team is primarily based in Wellington and advises Government on a range of tax and social policy issues. We research and develop policy options, and present policy recommendations to senior officials and Ministers. Unlike other policy shops, we also prepare our own legislation arising from those policy recommendations and our advisors support it through the legislative process.
- At Te Tari Taake Inland Revenue we’re passionate about Aotearoa New Zealand being a great place to live and work. _We’re making it simpler for everyone to pay tax that pays for things like health care, education and protecting the environment. _
- We are committed to keeping to the Treaty of Waitangi's guiding principles in our work for and with Māori customers and our employees, their whānau, hapū and iwi. _
- IR is committed to building an inclusive workplace free from inequalities, where all our people are valued, respected and feel supported to reach their full potential.**Applications close on Monday 11th November at 12pm.