Principal Advisor Business Services

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Utilise your leadership and relationship skills to deliver on a range of business advisory work.
- Provide practice and thought leadership to the teams work programme.
- Full time permanent position located in Wellington.
- Salary range $118,390 - $143, 639 + Kiwisaver

**Tēnei tūranga - About the Role**:
The Business Management team in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of the Building, Resources and Markets Group (BRM) work in partnership with managers and other staff to deliver BRM’s business management responsibilities, including accountability and reporting, business planning, organisational development, and other enterprise management activities such as risk, business continuity, and wellbeing, health and safety.
This is a busy role where no two days are the same. We require a person who is committed to providing leadership to the team and group to deliver on its obligations, that will at times need you to get stuck in and do the work alongside the advisors during our peak periods.
If you are able to support the business manager and a team of advisors to plan for and manage multiple deadlines and complex processes to their conclusion, have an eye for detail with good comprehension and writing skills, and excellent relationship management skills working with senior officials across multiple branches/areas, then this role could be right for you.
**This role includes the following activities**:

- Working in partnership with stakeholders to ensure successful and on-time delivery of the public sector accountability framework. This includes the annual estimates of appropriations and examination hearings, select committee annual review, annual report, performance measure reporting, 6-monthly reports to Ministers, non-departmental appropriation reports and other accountability and reporting processes.
- Providing advice and guidance to the team and group on best practice, including creating process, practice, and training documentation.
- Identifying and implementing business improvements to create efficiencies in processes and improve overall quality of products and service delivery to stakeholders.
- Ensure the group’s operational obligations are fulfilled and reflective of the group vision, goals and priorities through tracking and communicating, training, and raising issues and risks.
- Writing briefings for Ministers, writing papers and providing advice to the BRM Leadership Team, producing reports, and project management artefacts to support group operations.
- Reviewing, designing, and implementing practice frameworks, including writing communications to staff and practice guidance material.
- Facilitating learning sessions and workshops, and presenting to leadership teams.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a principal role or similar, leading and coaching a team to deliver on government accountability work with deep working knowledge of cabinet and parliamentary processes, and the development of accountability products.
- PuMP trained in non-financial performance measures, and experienced in providing advice, guidance, and training to improve performance measures to meet required standards.
- High level of expertise in all areas of business management to provide practice and thought leadership in large complex government organisations to strengthen the overall capability of the business group, and help ensure the quality and consistency of advice, services, and practices.
- Strong experience working strategically and practically with the business manager and leadership teams to plan and execute projects to deliver branch input to budgets and appropriations, central planning, performance reporting, risk management, business continuity planning, organisational development, and continuous improvement processes.
- Significant experience leading and coaching others to ensure capability needs are met, and that staff are developed and up skilled to better perform their roles.
- Experience in developing and implementing new frameworks and practices to increase business maturity across the group.
- A qualification in any of the following areas would be beneficial - Adult learning or a background in learning design and facilitation or Business Continuity, Risk Management, Wellbeing Health and Safety or Project Management. 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 o