Principal Investigator

Date: 18-Nov-2021

**Location**:
Wellington, NZ, 6011

**Discover a career with purpose at MBIE**:

- **Newly established role as part of a growing team**:

- **Lead complex investigations and mentor and coach junior members of the team**:

- **Wellington or Christchurch based**:

- **Salary - $112,856 - $138,028**

**Tēnei tūranga -**:
**About the role**:
**Occupational Regulation** is a cross-sector team responsible for several different occupational licensing and registration schemes, which currently includes Electrical Workers, Licensed Building Practitioners, Immigration Advisers, Motor Vehicle Traders, Auctioneers and Pool Inspectors. Over time other licensing/registration schemes might come into or out of Occupational Regulation.

As a **Principal** **Investigator - Lower North and South **you have the opportunity to bring your investigative expertise and experience to range of occupational regulation schemes and work with others in the team to establish and promote good practice.

As a Principal Investigator, you will have the opportunity to coach and mentor others in the team, and play a key supporting role for the Manager, Investigations by providing consistent quality advice.

**Nga pukenga me nga wheako e hiahiatia ana -**:
**Skills and experience required**:

- Significant experience working in an environment of regulatory compliance, preferably in an occupational regulation context
- Experience in the leadership of complex investigative activity including modern investigation and regulatory techniques, cross agency collaboration and a proven record of results
- Strong investigative process experience and an understanding of disciplinary hearing processes ideally in an occupational regulatory setting
- The ability to understand, use and explain the relevant regulatory frameworks, in particular in relation to the responsibilities of Occupation Regulation e.g. under the Building Act, Electricity Act, Immigration Advisers Licensing Act, and other Acts/regulations relevant to occupations regulated by the team
- Experience and a passion for coaching and mentoring others
- Strong relationship management skills, with the ability to influence and persuade senior stakeholders.

**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
- Maia - 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 iwaenganui 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 ngāiwi, 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 māngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēneiāheinga.

**Me pēhea te tono -**:
**How to apply**:
**Applications have been extended to close on Sunday 13 March.**
**All employees are required to comply with MBIE’s vaccination policy which seeks to protect the wellbeing, health and safety of our people, their whānau and the community. You are required to hold a valid vaccination pass to be employed at MBIE.