Kaitohutohu Matua Senior Advisor

Kaitohutohu Matua | Senior Advisor - Office of the GM - Te Tohu Rautaki Angitu Māori
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**: $93,177 - $124.651 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

Te tūnga | The role
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Advisor to join Te Tohu Rautaki Angitu Māori. The role reports to the General Manager and we are looking for a senior advisor with proven experience operating in a similar role who has well-developed analytical and writing capability.
This is a new role which has been established to strengthen the teams internal advisory function. You will get the opportunity to:

- Work closely with the leaders within Te Tohu Rautaki Angitu Māori to prepare briefings and provide advice
- Be a point of contact and maintain a strong working relationship with the Office of the Chief Executive
- Play a key role in coordinating information requests to a range of committees and boards that we report to
- Be part of a team that is driving organisational strategy through Stats NZ
- Get hands-on experience in leading important mahi to drive Māori data aspirations in the data ecosystem.

Nōu te rourou | What you bring
You will have experience as a senior advisor contributing to various advisory functions such managing information requests and coordinating departmental briefings and reporting activities. As a team player, you are keen to get involved and help the team and branch achieve its objectives. You are an organisational guru and can keep track of where various requests and mahi are at any given time. You are proactive and exercise good judgement about when to seek input from others and when to escalate. You are a people person and build positive relationships with others based on respect and trust.

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.
- Understanding of the machinery of government and related processes and procedures.

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

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about working at Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ.

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