Kaitohutohu Matua

**Kaitohutohu Matua - Partnerships Lead Advisor**

Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
- New role, make it your own, set the standard
- Bring your creativity, passion, innovation, and ideas
- Work in our brand new 6 star green building, or work flexibly

**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: $**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

**Mō te tūnga | The role**

Te Tohu Rautaki, Angitū Māori (TTRAM) are building a new Māori Partnerships and Engagement team. Bring your experience of working in this space to help create, test and implement tools to ensure Stats NZ becomes a leading organisation across government in Māori-Crown relations.

We offer you a place where you will be supported and encouraged to try new things, ensuring that we honour our Tiriti commitments and that a key focus is placed on making gains in doing what is right for Iwi Māori.

The Partnerships and Engagement Team (P&E) within TTRAM will provide intensive advice, brokering and facilitation of Partnerships between the organisation and Iwi Māori through internal and external focussed Partnership leads who will:

- Internally, provide advice/support organisation wide, develop policy and programmes to support capability to partner and work with Māori; ensure best practice for engaging with Māori on policy and initiatives; raise or escalate system blockers to improve process and practice; and support and coach teams seeking to engage with Māori; and
- Externally, develop and hold relationships with Māori; engage with Post Settlement Governance Entities (PSGEs) with existing commitments (Stage 1); raise the profile of P&E and partnership opportunities in the regions (Stage 2); identify opportunities for data partnerships with Māori (Iwi, NGOs, Trusts, Entities); and raise or escalate system blockers to improve process and practice. Everything we do is co-designed with Iwi Māori in a mana Māori space. Iwi Māori are at the centre of all our decision making: we will listen to feedback and pivot our approach when we need to and we will advocate the voice of Iwi Māori inside of Stats NZ.

**Mōu | About you**
- Mātauranga Māori
- Understanding/knowledge of Iwi and Māori Crown Relationships
- Te Tiriti o Waitangi
- Kaupapa Māori delivery
- Ability to work and build relationships
- Te Reo me o nga tikanga
- Knowledge and Understanding of different Māori Frameworks
- Understanding and Experience in Policy, Ministerial Briefs, Cabinet papers
- Understanding of the data ecosystem across government and private sectors

You'll be joining an inclusive environment where people, regardless of gender, race, disability, religion or background are supported to be able to do their best work. This includes:

- Opportunity to develop and grow your career
- Flexible by default, balance life and work commitments
- Opportunity to develop and grow your career (coaching culture, study support, secondments, acting up)

**Nōu te rou | 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:

- About your knowledge and experience, or willingness to learn about Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori.
- How you've demonstrated, encouraged, or supported diversity and inclusion in or outside of work.
- Examples of key relationships you've built and how and why relationships are important.
- Where you've demonstrated leadership, e.g., led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, spoken up for yourself or others.
- Where you've shown curiosity and tried new things, taken on other perspectives, challenged the norm, learned, and applied or shared your learnings.
- Where you've demonstrated customer centricity, everyone is a customer mentality, collaborated with others and invited feedback, spent time with diverse people and communities to broaden your views.
- Examples where you've worked with Māori, iwi, hapū and Tiriti partners

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply**

**You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitm