Senior Advisor, Learning and Development

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Do you want to be party of an Award Winning Learning and Development Team?
- Provide advice and deliver solutions and initiatives across the All of MBIE portfolio
- 6 month fixed-term role based in Wellington, Christchurch or Auckland
- Flexible working options available to support work/life balance
- Salary range $95K - $115K plus kiwisaver Tēnei tūranga - About the role:
MBIE’s Learning and Development team sits within the People & Culture (P&C) branch. The Learning and Development (L&D) team shape the learning agenda for MBIE and manage delivery of MBIE-wide learning programmes to meet organisational learning priorities, including Leadership Development, Maori Cultural Capability and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as well as business unit specific technical learning.
MBIE’s Learning and Development Team has just won 5 Global LearnX Awards which is recognition of the high standard of L&D work that this undertaken in this team to achieve best practice learning for the organisation.
We have a 6-month fixed-term opportunity to join the team as a Senior L&D Advisor supporting the All of MBIE portfolio. This is the largest, most diverse and widest reaching portfolio of Learning across MBIE.
Not only will you support and lead work that is challenging, interesting and varied you will also have a real opportunity make a difference and develop your ideas in significant and impactful Learning programmes. This will include, but is not limited to, Leadership Development, Maori Cultural Capability, Diversity Equity and Inclusion and more. You will work closely with the Principal Advisor to support development of an L&D Strategy and the build the development of business unit specific L&D plan’s as well as engaging with leaders and key stakeholders across the organisation to provide your expertise and advice to deliver solutions and initiatives centred on business' needs.
You will bring to this role your significant Learning and Development expertise in working in a similar environment, your ability to manage multiple priorities and to think strategically about how to spend the L&D budget to achieve capability increase for the organisation. You will also be keen to be part of a team that is focused delivering high quality work in a fun and supportive way.
This role can be based in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch, travel to Wellington will be required. We will help you manage a healthy work-life balance; with flexi-time and some days working from home options.
If you are looking for work that is both challenging and rewarding and you are keen to join a team that are focused on being leaders in Learning and Development, then we would love to hear from you.
Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and experience required:

- Proven experience managing an L&D portfolio, working with senior leaders preferably within a government environment
- Excellent influencing/promotional, interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
- Experience in developing strategic L&D plans that provide a proven capability shift
- The ability to organise and prioritise workloads effectively, to ensure high quality results within deadlines
- Proven ability to write papers for a Senior audience
- An effective team player with a passion for continuous improvement 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 wae