Kaitohu Matua

**Kaitohu Matua, Ahunga Umanga** | Senior Advisor, Organisational Performance
**Strategy** | Te Puni Rautaki
**Te Puni Kōkiri** | Ministry of Māori Development

**Location: Te Tari Matua, Pōneke** | National Office, Wellington

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Advisor to join our Organisational Performance Team looking to gain meaningful experience in public sector accountability and reporting

Te Puni Kōkiri is the government's principal policy advisor on Māori wellbeing and development. We achieve strategic influence with a focus on providing high quality policy advice and holding other agencies to account for delivering public services to, for, and with Māori. This includes our mandate to promote Māori achievement in education, training, health and economic resource development along with performing our monitoring and mentoring roles.

**Te whai wāhitanga | The opportunity**

An internal facing position, the Senior Advisor, Organisational Performance plays and important role of providing leadership to internal stakeholders on Te Puni Kōkiri's accountability and reporting requirements. The role reports to the manager of the Organisational Performance Team and is based in National office in Wellington. You will:

- Managing the process, preparation, collation and finalisation of the Ministry's external reporting, including quarterly reporting and the annual report to Parliament
- Assisting with the development of the Estimates of Appropriations and output class information Ensuring that accountability (including legislative and Treasury) timelines are adhered to
- Providing backup on the oversight of the Estimates and any financial reviews, including co-ordinating the Te Puni Kōkiri responses to written questions to the Finance and Expenditure Committee, and the Māori Affairs Select Committee

**Mōu | About you**

Trustworthy and reliable, you take pride in building strong, lasting relationships with other kaimahi and are agile in how you approach and manage your workload.
- Exceptional relationship management skills. Can quickly build in-person rapport with a range of stakeholders.
- Successful experience operating within a Public Service environment with knowledge and understanding the Machinery of Government, Policy process.
- Proficiency with Microsoft packages especially outlook, word, excel and PowerPoint.
- Presentation skills and the personal credibility to be able to speak with authority on behalf Te Puni Kōkiri.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of te ao Māori and are comfortable working in an environment where tikanga is observed.
- A high level of commitment to detail, quality, thoroughness and delivery.
- Demonstrated experience in a complex and politically sensitive environment.

**Tāu e whai ai | What you will get in return**

Te Puni Kōkiri is a diverse and rewarding working environment full of passionate people focussed on creating solutions that will help our communities.

There is more to life than just work and we encourage our staff to maintain the right balance between work and personal pursuits. We recognise that a healthy workforce is a productive one, so we're committed to providing opportunities and incentives for our employees to look after themselves, including:

- Optical allowance
- Hauora allowance
- Te Reo Māori proficiency allowance
- Provide enhanced parental leave provisions and childcare allowances.

**Te Puni Kōkiri | Ministry of Māori Development**

Te Puni Kōkiri is committed to our vision of 'Whānau Taurikura' - 'Thriving Whānau'. We consider that when whānau are thriving, so do their communities, hapū, iwi and all of Aotearoa. This underpins everything we do.

Our people are at the heart of achieving this vision and it is our people who contribute to supporting Māori collective success. They do this by creating and maintaining relationships with iwi, hapū and whānau Māori and government at both a local and national level. It is this that enables Māori participation and success as Māori, and it is our people who will create a future where all whānau can thrive.

Ka akiākina koe kia tukuna mai tō tononga i tēnei rangi tonu, kia whakapāngia rānei tētahi Ringa Taritari e kōrero ai mō ngā painga o tēnei whai wāhitanga, me tōna hāngai ki ō whāinga ā-umanga. Nau mai rā ko ngā tononga i te reo Māori, te reo Pākehā, te reorua rānei, ka mutu, e kore tō kōwhiringa reo e whai pānga kino ki tō tononga ahakoa te aha. Ka tirohia ai e mātou ngā tononga katoa, ka mutu, kite ana mātou i te tangata tika rawa atu, ka whakatūngia ko ia.

**_ Ka aukati ngā tono hei te 08 Kohitātea 2025 ā te 11.55pm | Applications close on 08 January 2025 at 11.55pm._**

**Job Details**:

- Reference #
- 13534
- Posted on
- 19 Dec 2024
- Closes on
- 08 Jan 2025 23:55
- Location(s)
- Wellington
- Expertise
- Advisor, Government, Strategy
- Job level(s)
- Advisor, Senior Advisor
- Work type(s)
- Permanent full-time