Policy Roles in New Zealand Public Sector

6 days ago


Wellington City, New Zealand OCG Full time

Better work/life balance
- Easy access to the great outdoors
- Stunning scenery and less people

**Expand your public sector policy skills and experience with a few years abroad in New Zealand. Aotearoa is the ideal location to widen your horizons and get involved in the intricacies of policy with cross-departmental collaboration at its core.**

**About the Public Sector in Aotearoa**:
With origins in the Westminster system, the Public Sector in New Zealand runs with collaboration at its forefront - Across large and small ministries, each playing a part to develop policies that build a better future of all kiwi’s through not only equality but equity.

**About the types of Policy roles**:

- Strategic - Look into in the ins of outs of policy development, taking into count numerous variables and find the path that works across all using equity
- Legislative - Building the components of legislation and how recent policy meet and uphold law, as well as rewriting and structuring future law
- Regulation - looking into the legislative requirements and how regulations operate as the second layer of what to do/not to do.
- Operational - Getting a policy implemented and assessing the day-to-day support need for success and that transference to BAU
- Research and reporting - Develop comprehensive options that provide different approaches and outcomes that service the needs of the ministers and New Zealand people.

**About you**:

- Keen for a change, working in a more collaborative system with unique equity drivers in policy development
- Ready to embrace a better work/life balance
- Be interested in or have travelled to NZ before with a desire to return or check it out

**To apply**:


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