Senior Design Analyst

Kaitātari Hoahoa Matua| Senior Design Analyst - Construction & Property Statistics
Exciting opportunity to lead the methodology redesign of one of our key economic measures.
- Opportunity to use innovative modelling methods with sample design in a hybrid approach to measuring an important set of official statistics
- Bring your creativity, innovation, and ideas for how to model and measure building activity
- Be a technical leader for important economic statistics

Mōu | For you
Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health, and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage people to be their authentic selves.

**Starting salary**: $93,177- $108,914 negotiable + superannuation
- Flexible by default, balance life and work commitments
- Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
- 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure), see careers site for other benefits and networks
- City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs

Te tūnga | The role
This role is Permanent and based in Christchurch. Reporting to the Manager Construction and Property Statistics, your focus is to be the technical leader of the construction and property statistics team.
The Construction and Property Statistics team produces timely data and insights about construction, property, and housing to enable evidence-based decision making that improves the lives of current and future generations. The team is made up of ten people who produce four regular statistical outputs related to building consents, building activity, property transfers and ready mixed concrete production.
In this role, you will be responsible for the technical leadership of our construction and property statistics including:

- Value of building work put in place combines administrative and survey data in a longitudinal statistical model to estimate the value of construction in the economy. You will lead the development of an improved longitudinal statistical model and the exploration of alternative data sources. This work is likely to take 2-3 years and will build on both current practice and preliminary research using best-practice survey methodology and data science tools and techniques.
- Experimental building indicators provide a measure of the time taken on building projects in Aotearoa and an estimate of the number of new dwellings built. You will influence improvements to this experimental data collection.

**The day-to-day activities of the role include**:

- Leading the redesign of the methodology and processes of our building activity statistics.
- Providing expert technical advice on our statistical process for internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide ongoing technical coaching and mentoring to staff producing regular statistical releases.
- Developing and championing the adoption and use of best practice methodologies to lift capability across the organisation.
- Supervising the troubleshooting and continuous improvement of our statistical tools, processes, and systems.
- Engaging regularly with internal and external stakeholders, to understand their needs and communicate the technical limitations of our data.
- Writing technical documents that communicate ideas for a wide range of audiences both internally and externally.

Nōu te rourou | What you bring
We encourage and consider transferable skills and experience gained from outside of work e.g., cultural, community work, sports, volunteering, or a comparable role in a different sector or industry.
We want to hear about any of the following in your cover letter and CV any information relating to:

- Where you've demonstrated technical leadership, e.g., Delivered technical decision making, demonstrated problem solving, led a technical project or piece of work.
- Where you've delivered a complex, long term technical project.
- Your experience in research, analytics or mathematical modelling roles.
- Your level of expertise in programming languages such as R and SAS.
- Your strong written ability and experience writing research or technical documents for wide audiences.
- Your experience providing technical advice and technical coaching to less experienced team members.
- About your knowledge and experience, or willingness to learn about Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori.

Ko mātou | About Us
Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer of around 1400 people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

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