Principal Advisor

Job Type: Fixed Term Full Time
- Category: Other
- Location: Wellington City
- Date Advertised: 21-AUG-25
- Job Reference: MOJ/1880645
- Job Title: Principal Advisor
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**Make a real impact: Become part of our vision to eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand**

Are you ready to be part of something bigger? We are a unit with a significant system role, working across government to take collective action against family violence and sexual violence.

We steward the family violence and sexual violence system and drive realisation of the cross-agency strategy—Te Aorerekura. We work in partnership with communities across Aotearoa New Zealand, placing survivors, families, and whānau at the heart of everything we do.

**Te Haeata/The Opportunity**

The Interagency Executive Board for the Elimination of Family Violence and Sexual Violence is seeking a fixed term (9 months) Principal Advisor - Strategy, Investment and Performance, with exceptional knowledge and understanding of government investment and funding, impact and investment prioritisation approaches, to join a new multi-disciplinary and flexible team in its business unit.

This role will support the assessment of investment in family and sexual violence and support the identification of opportunities for how this might be orientated to support future change, developing options and assessing the impact of these on the family violence and sexual violence system for how we might contract differently and social investment approaches.

This is a high profile and important piece of work and forms an integral part of our new Te Aorerekura Action Plan under the Investing and Commissioning Well priority focus area. It will help us identify how we make effective decisions about where and how Government invests to improve outcomes for victims / survivors and those impacted by violence.

Working alongside the Manager for Strategy, Investment and Performance you will support the implementation of the Investing and Commissioning Well programme, working in and assisting project teams to identify, assess and develop options and recommendations for investment.

This will include working to ensure strategic alignment with cross action plan priorities; identifying how and where community and family violence and sexual violence sector needs are incorporated; identifying opportunities to do things differently to drive change; and supporting projects to identify and manage their risks, issues and stakeholders.

If you are passionate about making a difference and have the skills, we encourage you to apply.

**Ō pūkenga/skills and Experience**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience
- a minimum of 6 years senior public sector experience with experience in large scale investments and budget initiatives including developing investment strategies and funding approaches
- applied understanding of New Zealand government budget and treasury processes
- knowledge of a social investment approach
- knowledge and experience of social sector commissioning
- sound planning and organisation, including the ability to prioritise activities and plan to deliver critical milestones
- ability to actively manage dependencies, risks and issues
- ability to translate complex information into simple understandable concepts to enable effective decision making
- preparation of reports and advice to senior leaders and Ministers (Briefings, AMs, presentations, dashboards, reports)
- ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders
- an awareness and / or understanding of family violence and sexual violence.

**Ngā painga o tēnei wāhi mahi/What's great about working here**
- **Our Values**: We are guided by values such as Kotahitanga (equity in relationships and inclusion), Kaitiakitanga (protection and accountability), Mahi Tahi (collaboration and collective advocacy), Ora (wellbeing and restoration), Koi Mahi (learning and innovation), and Tiki-Pono-Aroha (integrity).
- **One Team**: As a small unit, we work as one team to deliver maximum impact. We are flexible, working in cross-functional teams to ensure we have the right mix of capability to do the right work. We are innovative and harness the people across the Family Violence and Sexual Violence system to deliver collective impact.
- **Professional Development**: We support continuous development of technical capability and leadership expertise.

In addition, we offer:

- flexible work hours where possible
- access to a variety of inclusive and proactive networks

See our full range of benefits here.

With a wide range of jobs, you also get the chance to gain a variety of skills and experience while developing your career.

**Utu ā-tau/Salary**

The appointing salary for this role will be between $129,129 and $179,192 pro-rated to 9