Senior Advisor, Learning

**Senior Advisor, Learning and Development**

**Workforce Strategy, Te Puna Aonui**

**National Office Wellington**

**Te Haeata/The Opportunity**

Shape the future of workforce capability in Family Violence and Sexual Violence (FVSV). As a Senior Advisor, you will guide and provide leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of national learning initiatives across Te Puna Aonui partner agencies. Your work will be violence
- and trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and equity-driven, ensuring training is accessible, evidence-based, and impactful.

This role is grounded in the five principles that underpin the Family Violence Entry to Expert Capability Framework (E2E) and the Specialist Family Violence Organisational Standards (SOS). You will help to operationalise these principles by ensuring learning initiatives prioritise equity, accountability, collaboration, wellbeing, and continuous improvement.

**How You Work Grounded in These Principles**

**Kotahitanga - Relationships & Inclusion**
- Guide cross-agency collaboration to ensure FVSV workforce training prioritises equity, reaches underserved communities, are inclusive and reflects diverse needs.
- Champion culturally responsive capability building approaches that incorporates Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles and meets the needs of tangata whenua, Pacific peoples, ethnic communities, disabled and Deaf people, LGBTQIA+ people, older people, and children and young people.

**Kaitiakitanga - Protection & Accountability**
- Develop evaluation frameworks that ensure capability building programmes and initiatives uphold best-practice safety measures and enhance accountability at all levels.
- Influence system-wide approaches to holding people who use violence accountable through workforce capability interventions.

**Mahi Tahi - Collaboration & Advocacy**
- Partner with Te Puna Aonui member agencies to align workforce capability development with national strategies, ensuring training contributes to a wider system shift.
- Provide high-level advisory support on FVSV workforce development, influencing senior decision-makers.

**Ora - Wellbeing & Restoration**
- Ensure workforce capability building programmes are victim-survivor-centred, embedding whānau-centred, strengths-based responses in all capability-building initiatives.
- Support agencies in embedding violence
- and trauma-informed and restorative approaches in workforce development strategies.

**Koi Mahi - Innovation & Learning**
- Guide the design of data-driven evaluation frameworks, ensuring workforce training continuously evolves based on insights, feedback, and best practice.
- Drive continuous improvement, integrating sector knowledge and lived experience insights into workforce capability planning.

**What You'll Do**
- **Guide and provide leadership** in FVSV workforce capability projects, ensuring alignment with national frameworks.
- **Develop** and implement evaluation frameworks to measure training impact.
- **Advise** senior stakeholders on workforce capability, training, and best practices.
- **Collaborate** with Te Puna Aonui agencies to embed sustainable learning initiatives.
- **Influence** policy and strategic workforce development through data-driven insights.

**Ō pūkenga / Skills and Experience**

To be successful in this role, you will:

- Be committed to the principles of te Tiriti o Waitangi and equity in learning.
- Hold a tertiary qualification in a relevant field (e.g., Learning & Development, Education, Research and Evaluation), or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience in a related field.
- Have extensive experience in workforce capability development, training design, or evaluation at a strategic level.
- Have strong experience engaging with and advising senior stakeholders across government and sector agencies.
- Understand violence
- and trauma-informed, culturally responsive learning approaches and their integration into workforce development.

**Mō mātou / About us**

Te Puna Aonui: The Joint Venture for the Elimination of Family Violence and Sexual Violence is an Interdepartmental Executive Board (IEB) reporting directly to the Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence. It was established to ensure clear joint accountability for work relating to the elimination of family violence and sexual violence.

Te Puna Aonui Business Unit supports the IEB and the broader Joint Venture, serving as the Government's lead advisor on FVSV from a whole-system perspective. We lead with influence and collaboration, working alongside government, Māori, communities, NGOs, and private organisations to drive transformation. We provide strategic policy advice, best-practice recommendations, and lived experience insights, ensuring effective governance and accountability.

We are housed and serviced within Te Tāhū o te Ture - the Ministry of Justice.

At Te Tāhū o te Ture we're committed to strengthening people's trust in the law of Aotearoa, New Zealand.