Aporei - Principal Advisor, People, Capability &

**Aporei** | Principal Advisor, People, Capability & Culture
**Te Puni Rangatōpu **| Corporate
**Te Puni Kōkiri** | The Ministry of Māori Development

**Location: Te Tari Matua, Pōneke** | National Office, Wellington

Te Puni Kōkiri is the government's principal policy advisor on Māori 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 Māori. This includes our mandate to promote Māori achievement in education, training, health and economic resource development along with performing our monitoring and mentoring roles.

We have an amazing opportunity for an experienced HR practitioner to join our People, Capability and Culture Advisory Team

**Te whai wāhitanga | The opportunity**

We are looking for a trusted Principal Advisor who will work in partnership with the business to enable Te Puni Kōkiri to maintain and enhance our capability to deliver efficient, effective and economical outputs. We're looking for people who are adaptable, who can front-foot their mahi, have change management experience and are looking for an exciting new challenge

The Aporei - Principal Advisor leads the development of, and coordination for strategic initiatives and documents for the General Manager, People, Capability and Culture in governance, executive and ministerial forums. They will support the General Manager and Te Puni Kōkiri Leaders to:

- Lead the development of, and coordination for HR strategic initiatives
- Lead the development of and coordination for HR related documents (GM, Governance, Executive Leadership directed)
- Lead and review implementation of human resources and capability initiatvies including;
- Annual performance cycles
- Annual staff engagement initiatives
- Change management
- Liasing on Te Kawa Mataaho work programmes including
- Support of the Ministry's Papa Pounamu programme for Diversity & Inclusion
- Support of the Ministry's Pay Gap Action Plans
- Provide expert advice to the team and managers including the provision of employment relations support if required
- Provide high quality support to the General Manager, at pace.

**Mōu | About you**

This opportunity is for a highly skilled HR practitioner that possesses the technical knowledge and expertise to support the organisation in making effective decisions surrounding its people. To be successful in the role you should have:

- Minimum of 5 years Senior Advisor/ Business Partner level
- Significant experience operating in Human Resource or Capability Development within the public sector
- Proven experience managing complex and multiple relationships to take full advantage of the perspective's and expertise of others
- Demonstrated leadership experience in a complex and sensitive environment
- The ability to work in collaboration with peers and to influence key stakeholders.

**Tāu e whai ai | What you will get in return**

Te Puni Kōkiri is a diverse and rewarding working environment full of passionate people focussed on discovering solutions that will assist in serving our communities. We are guided by our values of excellence, valuing people and relationships, working collectively and being creative and innovative.

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 Māori proficiency allowance
- Provide enhanced parental leave provisions and childcare allowances.

**Te Puni Kōkiri | Ministry of Māori Development**

Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, is committed to 'Whānau Taurikura' - 'Thriving Whānau'. We consider that when whānau are thriving, so do their communities, hapū, iwi and all of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Our people are at the heart of achieving this vision and it is our people who contribute to supporting Māori collective success by creating and maintaining relationships with iwi, hapū and whānau Māori and government at both a local and national level. It is this that enables Māori participation and success as Māori, and it is our people who will create our best future.
- Ka aukati ngā tono hei te _**_Rātū 05 Whiringa-ā-rangi 2024 ā te 11.55pm_**_ | Applications close on _**_Tuesday 05 November 2024 at 11.55pm_**_ _

**Job Details**:

- Reference #
12813- Posted on
01 Nov 2024- Closes on
05 Nov 2024 23:55- Location(s)
Wellington- Expertise
Advisor, Human Resources- Job level(s)
Principal Advisor- Work type(s)
Permanent full-time