Principal Analyst Performance

**Job Title**: Principal Analyst - New Zealand Food Safety

**Role type**: 12-month fixed term, full time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary range**: $109,626 - $148,318 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role

The position sits within the Strategy and Engagement Directorate, New Zealand Food Safety, Haumaru Kai Aotearoa. We lead the development, implementation and oversight of the regulatory and compliance system that underpins our impressive food economy.
You will be joining us at an exciting time as we continue to design, develop, and manage the frameworks for risk, performance, and accountability reporting for NZFS. The role will work closely with the NZFS Senior Leadership Team, managers, and technical experts across NZFS, and the MPI Strategy, Governance & Performance Directorate.
This role will see you join a talented and committed team who are responsible for high quality governance and ministerial support, performance and accountability reporting, and risk management for NZFS.

**This role provides you with the opportunity to**:

- Take a lead role in developing and reporting on key business and strategic performance metrics
- Provide data stewardship, and set strategies for effective use of database technology and solutions
- Provide trusted advice on best practice on analysis, use of appropriate data and digital tools to create insights, reports, visualisation, and dashboard reporting
- Coach and mentor the team to build our data analytics capability

Mōu - About You
Are you an experienced principal analyst or experienced senior looking to step up into a principal analyst role?
You will be agile and adaptable and will thrive in a complex and deadline driven environment. We're looking for someone who will take pride in completing work to a very high standard.
- Experience that involves analysis, internal consultation and engagement, and interaction with/providing advice to decision makers
- Strong knowledge and experience in non-financial performance measurement methodologies, frameworks such as Balanced Scorecard and PuMP, design, analysis, and reporting
- Excellent analytical skills, including Power BI
- Knowledge of a range of performance and strategy tools, techniques and reporting e.g. experience in developing business models, strategy maps, dashboard reporting etc
- Strong stakeholder management experience in building credibility, and effective working relationships with senior leaders, technical specialists, and peers
- Significant experience in measuring the delivery of strategic and performance outcomes, accountability reporting, and the effectiveness of its statutory interventions

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
Reporting to the Manager Governance & Performance, being part of a small, friendly team who are passionate about our work.
This role will see you join a talented and committed team who are responsible for high quality governance and ministerial support, performance and accountability reporting, and risk management for NZFS. Join our team and help our vision where New Zealand is the world's most sustainable provider of high-value food and primary products.

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) partners with New Zealand's food and fibre sector to be the world's most sustainable provider of high-value food and primary products.
Our role includes seizing export opportunities for our food and fibre sector, improving sector productivity, ensuring the food we produce is safe, increasing sustainable resource use, and protecting New Zealand from biological risk.

Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Annual Wellness payment
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
- Comprehensive 3-day MPI Induction Programme

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working
We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.

Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values, your whakapapa; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.
Applications close at midnight on Sunday 19 March.
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