Kaihautū Whakapainga Motukore Continuous

Exciting new role - make it your own
- High profile work
- Flexible working to support your work life balance

Mō te tūranga mahi | About the role
This is a new role that sits within the Climate Group, reporting to the Manager Delivery and Operations. The main purpose of this role is to drive excellence in execution, and to ensure our ways of working are efficient, maximising people's time to focus on value adding work.
You will need to build strong internal relationships and partnerships, working across the Climate group and the Ministry, to identify pain points, understand user needs, and develop and implement new ways of working that will delight our internal ‘customers'.
The role will be varied and fast paced and requires someone to identify process improvement opportunities, collaborate with key stakeholders to develop human centred solutions and sympathetically manage the changes to the way we work.

**Responsibilities also include**:

- Coordinating and contributing to the group wide planning, performance, and reporting requirements.
- Leading the Climate group's ministerial support, including responses to correspondence, information requests and parliamentary questions, in collaboration with other Climate teams and Ministerial Services Team.

While there are some core deliverables, there is also lots of scope for you to shape your work programme to deliver where you think the greatest impacts can be achieved.
Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience
We are looking for a strong deliverer and influencer, who can bring a fresh perspective and challenge to improve our ways of working.

**You will also bring**:

- process improvement and change management experience with strong influencing capabilities
- a collaborative approach, strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to quickly build credibility and trust across diverse groups
- solution focussed approach with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
- strong customer focus and human centred design / design thinking experience
- an ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and complex environment
- strong systems thinking capability with a curiosity as to how technology and automation can support process improvement
- highly developed analytical, conceptual, and creative thinking skills
- personal drive, enthusiasm, curiosity, and a can-do attitude
- an ability to set priorities and to achieve deadlines and project and programme outputs
- excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- knowledge or understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi and te ao Maori and commitment to developing your cultural capability and capacity in this space
- confidence and capability to facilitate group sessions with customers/users
- design skills to develop professional, creative, visual documents (desirable).

Whānuitanga Utu ā-Tau | Salary range
Salary range for this role is $114,872 to $139,510 pa. Appointment within this range will be based on skills and experience.
Ngā hua ka puta i te mahi ki MfE | Benefits of working at MfE
- a flexible by default approach to create a healthy work-life blend
- agile ways of working, allowing you variety and challenges across the organisation as we work as ‘One MfE'
- generous leave entitlements
- active employee networks including Māori Rōpū, Asian Network, Neurodivergent and Disability Networks, Women's Network, Tagata Moana (Pacific Peoples' Network), and Rainbow Network
- opportunities for development and education.

Check out other benefits of joining us and hear what our people say about Working at MfE | Ministry for the Environment.
Mō mātou | About us
The Ministry's purpose is He taiao tōnui mō ngā reanga katoa - a flourishing environment for every generation.
A key priority for the Ministry is building Te Ao Māori capability. This means we work with our Treaty partners to advance Māori priorities for the environment and for environmental success. We will be confident and coordinated in our ongoing engagement with Māori and lead the natural resources system in engaging for success with tangata whenua. We will grow our capability and capacity to accurately reflect Māori views in our work. We accurately reflect Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Ao Māori into our everyday work, by delivering on Te Ao Hurihuri, our Māori capability strategy.

The location for this role is flexible which means you can work anywhere in New Zealand and there is an option to work from home. As a flexible friendly employer, we are happy to discuss solutions that may work for you and the business. We value and care about enabling our people to work in a way that means they can work at their best.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities and actively strive to be a diverse organisation with an inclusive culture. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We are proud to be a Rainbow Tick and Gender Tick certified organisation and are committed to providi