Principal Adviser

**Job Title**:Principal Adviser - Strategic Planning and Performance

**Role type**: Full time, Permanent

**Location**: Wellington Central

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**About the Role - Kōrero mō te Tūranga**

Join MPI's Chief Transformation Officer to support the delivery of MPI's strategic plan to enhance the prosperity, sustainability, protection and visible leadership across New Zealand's food and fibre sector.

You will support the performance management of key initiatives to reach our strategic priorities and be responsible for collating high level reporting to MPI Senior Leadership, Ministers, and key stakeholders.

A day in the life of a Principal Adviser will look like:

- Building collaborative working partnerships across the organisation, particularly with other planning and performance teams across MPI.
- Developing and implementing new reporting frameworks and continuous improvement.
- Tracking and monitoring the financial and non-financial performance of strategic initiatives and programmes.
- Supporting capabilities across MPI to be outcomes-focused.
- Providing project management best practice.

**About You - Mōu**

You will have experience with:

- Constructively facilitating teams to design, deliver, and continuously improve programmes of work.
- Providing leadership, guidance, expertise, motivation for best practice planning processes
- Power BI and Microsoft Office knowledge at an advanced level
- Writing clearly and succinctly for a variety of audiences, focusing on supporting decision making
- Putting the needs of others first, coaching others and building a positive and constructive culture.

**About the Team** - **Mō tō mātou Rōpū**

You will be working in a small team with the Chief Transformation Officer, and interacting closely across MPI with other teams. This role directly supports MPI's strategic direction and purpose.

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**About MPI- Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua**

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

**Benefits of working at MPI- Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua**
- Annual Wellness payment
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
- Reduced premiums for Group Healthcare Schemes

**Security checks - Ngā Taki Whakahaumaru**

**Low level Security Clearance**
- most preferably a New Zealand citizen, who has **resided continuously in New Zealand **for at least the last **five (5) years**, OR
- is a citizen of, **and/or has resided continuously** in one or more of the following countries for the last **five (5) years**: either Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom (UK) or the United States of America (USA); **and** has a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) towards a recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at this level.
- click here to find out more about the national security vetting process and access the eligibility self-check tool.
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**Are you ready to make a difference?- Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake?**

We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.

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 midnight on Tuesday 19 November**

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