Manukura Pae Tawhiti Team Lead Data and Insights

**Manukura Pae Tawhiti** | Team Lead - Data and Insights **Te Puni Rautaki**| Strategy **Te Puni Kokiri** | The Ministry of M ori Development **Location: Te Tari Matua, Poneke** | National Office, Wellington - Are you a people leader with experience managing workflows and ensuring high quality team outputs? - Do you consider yourself an expert in data and insights? - Can you strike up a conversation, and are you comfortable working in our unique environment? - Are you a professional looking for a role with purpose? If you answered "Yes" we want to hear from you Te Puni Kokiri is the government's principal policy advisor on M ori wellbeing and development. We achieve strategic influence with a focus on providing high quality policy advice and holding other agencies to account for delivering public services to, for, and with M ori. This includes our mandate to promote M ori achievement in education, training, health and economic resource development along with performing our monitoring and mentoring roles. We have an exciting Team Lead opportunity in our Strategy puni focused on people leadership and allocating workload. **Te whai w hitanga | The opportunity** A core focus of the Team Lead is to provide people leadership and oversee the day-to-day operations of the team while supporting the Manager, Data & Insights with managing workflows and building team capability. - **Leadership.** Manage, guide and mentor kaimahi including Advisors & Data Analysts. - **Programme Planning.**Ensure programmes are delivered on time, and within budget. Allocate and monitor team mahi. - **Innovation.** Champion innovation and the sharing of knowledge within the team. Create an environment that fosters this. - **Stakeholder Relationships.**Build and nurture relationships across the public service to enhance the understanding of the policy impacts on M ori. **Mou | About you** An experienced people leader, you should have extensive experience leading teams and managing complex, time critical work programmes. We are looking someone who is: - Skilled in influencing and positioning teams to influence senior leadership to put evidence at the heart of decision making. - Knowledgeable with contemporary continuous quality improvement methodology. - Forward thinking, agile, and adaptable. Able to anticipate the evolving nature of M ori and non-M ori world views. - Comfortable working in a te ao M ori environment and situations where tikanga is observed. Competency in te reo M ori or a willingness to learn. **T u e whai ai | What you will get in return** Te Puni Kokiri is a diverse and rewarding working environment full of passionate people focussed on creating solutions that will help our communities. We are guided by our values of te wero, manaakitanga, he toa takitini and ture tangata. There is more to life than just work and we encourage our staff to maintain the right balance between work and personal pursuits. We recognise that a healthy workforce is a productive one so we're committed to providing opportunities and incentives for our employees to look after themselves, including: - Optical allowance - Hauora allowance - Te Reo M ori proficiency allowance - Provide enhanced parental leave provisions and childcare allowances. **Te Puni Kokiri | Ministry of M ori Development** Te Puni Kokiri is committed to our vision of 'Wh nau Taurikura' - 'Thriving Wh nau'. We consider that when wh nau are thriving, so do their communities, hapu, iwi and all of Aotearoa. This underpins everything we do. Our people are at the heart of achieving this vision and it is our people who contribute to supporting M ori collective success. They do this by creating and maintaining relationships with iwi, hapu and wh nau M ori and government at both a local and national level. It is this that enables M ori participation and success as M ori, and it is our people who will create a future where all wh nau can thrive. Ka aki kina koe kia tukuna mai to tononga i tenei rangi tonu, kia whakap ngia r nei tetahi Ringa Taritari e korero ai mo ng painga o tenei whai w hitanga, me tona h ngai ki o wh inga -umanga. Nau mai r ko ng tononga i te reo M ori, te reo P keh, te reorua r nei, ka mutu, e kore to kowhiringa reo e whai p nga kino ki to tononga ahakoa te aha. Ka tirohia ai e m tou ng tononga katoa, ka mutu, kite ana m tou i te tangata tika rawa atu, ka whakatungia ko ia. **_Please note, our inbox won't be monitored between 20 Hakihea/December and 05 Kohit tea/January._** - Ka aukati ng tono hei te Ra pa 08 Kohit tea te 11.55pm | Applications close on Wednesday 08 January 2025 at 11.55pm._