Senior Advisor

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Support a government programme that seeks to establish a green Hydrogen industry starting in Southland.
- Lead the development and implementation of a financial rebate mechanism.

**Tēnei tūranga - About the Role**:
We are looking for a talented Senior Advisor to join a small team within the Just Transition Partnerships team in the Economic Development and Transitions branch. The role will be focused on developing and implementing the Regional Hydrogen Transition initiative.

You will play a key role in contributing to the development and implementation of the Regional Hydrogen Transition initiative. This initiative is focussed on driving the uptake of Green Hydrogen in just transition regions, through leading the development and implementation of a financial rebate mechanism for large consumers. The Senior Policy Advisor is responsible for supporting the overall capability of the team.

**As the Senior Advisor, you will be responsible for**:

- Undertaking complex policy analysis, leading the development of innovative, practical and durable policy options (including through engagement with stakeholders), and providing authoritative policy advice often in areas that are complex and sensitive.
- Taking the lead and project managing complex policy work and project teams.
- Enhancing the overall capability of the team through coaching and mentoring more junior team members during their day-to-day work and against their longer-term development plans.

Experience or interest in the energy sector, decarbonization or economic development will help you excel in this role. As part of a small project team, you will be expected to be highly adaptable in contributing and leading different aspects of the work programme as required.

About the Team
The Just Transitions Partnerships Team supports the government’s priorities for a Just Transition to a low emissions economy - ensuring the impacts and opportunities associated with the transition are evenly distributed. The Just Transitions Partnerships team is part of the Economic Development and Transitions branch (EDT). EDT focusses on how the government supports sectors, regions and workers through transitions, and on ensuring we have the right investment settings to bring the right kind of savers and investors together to transform the economy to make it more productive, sustainable, and inclusive.

**What we do**:
Our work is focused on supporting people, places and sectors in regions to plan and manage their transitions. Previously we have worked with the Taranaki region on the development of the T2050 Roadmap, driving community engagement in this process. More recently we have worked to support a Just Transition for Southland to ensure a more resilient economic future.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required
- A good tertiary qualification.
- Must be a NZ citizen or hold a residence class visa.
- Understands the current government context, policy agenda and priorities and demonstrates flexibility, adaptability and strategic agility as the needs and priorities of the Minister and the Ministry change.
- Is able to use strategic thinking to identify what is important for the policy area in the medium and long term and system thinking to see policy issues in the wider context.
- Is able to use advanced critical thinking, reasoning and judgement to identify policy issues; shape an ambiguous, complex or unclear policy issue into a tractable policy problem; identify its root causes; explore and evaluate relevant information and integrate it into the development of policy options.
- Is able to build requisite knowledge for different policy issues quickly, draw on in-depth knowledge of the policy area as well as broad knowledge from other policy domains, and critically use evidence and information from multiple and diverse sources to draw inferences and come to conclusions based on available evidence.
- Is able to use judgement to identify and assess policy options against the desired outcomes, identify their cost-effectiveness and impact, identify risk and effective mitigation strategies, deal comfortably with uncertainty and make innovative, practical and durable recommendations without the total picture.
- Is able to use policy project management processes to lead and manage projects effectively.
- Is able to navigate effectively and flexibly through standard policy advisory processes and Cabinet requirements.
- Is able to use a range of oral, written and visual mediums to communicate effectively in diverse situations.

**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 Zeala