Risk and Verification Manager

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Provide quality risk and verification information to inform quality visa decision making and protect the integrity of the wider immigration system
- Lead a team of Verification Officers and/or Verification Managers
- Rotational group position
- Salary range: $112,856 - $138,028 Tēnei tūranga - About the role:
The Risk and Verification (R&V) Manager role forms part of a global network of R&V managers whose role it is to maintain emphasis and focus on risk from a regional, visa product and sector perspective, providing assurance to managers on the overall health of risk-related systems and tools.

The R&V managers form part of the Risk and Verification function within the Verification and Compliance Group of Immigration New Zealand. A key partnership R&V has is with the Border and Visa Operations branch, which is responsible for visa decision making and processing.

As part of a ‘rotational group', you could be posted onshore or offshore where you will manage local risk and verification capability, ensuring risk and verification processes are robust and fit for purpose. You will also have direct input into the overall ongoing design of risk controls such as analytics and business rules to enhance and support the regional and enterprise-wide risk operating model.

**Key deliverables of the role include**:

- Working proactively as part of a globally dispersed Risk and Verification team.
- Maintaining and developing risk management capability.
- Ensuring risk analytics and business rule systems are robust and appropriately maintained.
- Identifying intelligence, information analysis requirements for the region, product and/or sector you are responsible for.
- Supporting the development, implementation and ongoing enhancement of risk-related tools and systems across Border and Visa Operations.
- Managing stakeholder relationships within the region and at cross sector levels.
- Leading teams, sometimes in dispersed locations. Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and experience required:
Drawing on your sound working knowledge of risk management and related methodology, you will drive and champion risk leadership across the business, proactively identifying immigration related risk in your area to inform the wider risk network.

You will be a strong people leader, capable of motivating people as part of a geographically dispersed network and have exemplary relationship management skills to leverage optimal outcomes for Immigration New Zealand.

**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
- Māia - 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 I waenganui 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 ngāi wi, 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 mā ngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēnei āheinga.

**Me pēhea te tono - How to apply**:
Applications close on Wednesday, 28 September 202