Senior Advisor Workplace Environments

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Advise delivery teams on innovative workplace trends
- Develop and maintain Workplace Environment Framework
- Permanent position based in Wellington, Auckland or Christchurch
- Salary range: $101,911 - $121,196

**Tēnei tūranga - About the Role**:
As the Senior Advisor, Workplace Environments you report to the Director Partnerships and Engagement giving specialist advice on workplace trends to further improve MBIE as a workplace. You will oversee, educate, and support project delivery teams on workplace environments standards and the overarching framework as well as guide implementation into delivery programmes.

Reporting to the Director Partnerships and Engagement further key duties include:

- Provide specialist advice to delivery teams on flexible working guidelines, workplace trends and innovation.
- Develop and maintain a Workplace Environment Framework, ensuring guidelines are relevant and translated into clear processes.
- Support the Director Partnerships and Engagement and other teams across MBIE by ensuring property initiatives are underpinned by flexible working standards.
- Take a creative, practical, and proactive approach to problem identification and resolution.
- Identify workplace environments issues and trends and provide advice on critical areas of workplace environment strategies.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required
- Demonstrated experience in property strategy and/or workplace environments.
- Knowledge and experience of flexible working environments best practice.
- Strong evaluation skills.
- Demonstrated experience in the delivery of complex projects and programmes.
- Strong relationship skills and well-developed problem-solving skills.
- Effective communications, including strong report writing ability.
- Proven ability to develop trust and credibility with managers and staff.
- Understanding of Government operating procedures.

**Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE**:
MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.
We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.
- Mahi Tahi - Better Together
- Māia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.
MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.
E mōhio ana a Hīkina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kōtuinga I waenganui i a ngāi Māori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ā, kei te whai ia ki te whakaū ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mā te whai kiko o ngā kōtuinga ahungaroa o ngāi wi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, katutuki tēnei. He āhuatanga nui tēnei e āhei ai ngā mahi whanaketanga ā-ohanga, ā-pāpori hoki ki a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui. E whai tonu ana mātou ki te kōtui atu ki ngā iwi mō te rapu huarahi hou ki te whakaara i ngā kaupapakua roa nei e tāmi ana i a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui, ā, e whai ana hoki ki te tautohu i ngā āheinga kōkiritanga mā ngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēnei āheinga.

**Me pēhea te tono - How to Apply**:
Applications close on Sunday, 27 August at 11.59pm.