Senior Security and Resilience Adviser

The Ministry acts in the world to build a safer, more prosperous and more sustainable future for New Zealanders.

Kia hangai ake e te Manatu he ao-haumaru, ao-tonui, ao-pumau, ki te oranga tonutanga mo Aotearoa whanui.

Senior Security and Resilience Adviser
- Deliver first line security and resilience services in NZ and offshore
- Contribute to Aotearoa’s safety at home and offshore
- Join a high performing team

Provide a key service to the Ministry, ensuring the safety and security of our globally-based people.

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the roles
Our Senior Advisers are key to ensuring that new and emerging threats are well understood and appropriate actions taken to keep our people safe wherever they are in the world. Our team of Coordinators, Advisers and Senior Advisers work collaboratively across a range of areas, and are responsible for delivering threat and risk assessments and security and resilience training, providing crisis management advice, and implementing travel risk management and personnel and asset security.

**Key accountabilities for the role are**:

- Lead advice and support for security and resilience queries
- Lead the regional engagement approach, with a particular focus on ensuring strong engagement with our offshore security people
- Analyse key security and resilience risks and provide strong practical advice and guidance on potential solutions to manage risk
- Lead the risk assessment process and provide analysis for significant or complex risk assessments
- Create and maintain key risk documentation
- Periodically provide after-hours duty service

The appointment range for the role is $101, 621 to $137. 487 total remuneration including employer contribution to Kiwisaver.

Mā‎ wai te mahi nei? - Who are we looking for?
- Experience in risk management
- Passionate about helping people stay safe and an interest in advancing your security, continuity and risk management career
- Proven experience building, maintaining and leveraging relationships
- Demonstrated integrity, discretion and an ethical approach
- Very confident with technology and able to quickly learn and operate different systems
- Strong qualitative and analytical skills
- Sound understanding of tikanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles

Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Aorere - Why MFAT?

We are committed to a focus on leadership, talent, training and development, and flexible work options. Check out our benefits page to find out more about why we love working here.

We are also working to grow the diversity of our workforce and the inclusive nature of our workplace. Click on our diversity and inclusion page to find out more.

Mō mātou - About us

Our people represent New Zealand on and offshore, and in doing so make New Zealanders safer and more prosperous. By building connections with and influencing other countries and international institutions, we advance New Zealand’s interests and pursue New Zealand's values. We provide advice to the Government on the implications for New Zealand of what is happening in the world.

**Please note**:
You may be required to undertake occasional work travel but this is not a Foreign Policy/diplomatic role. This is a ‘Corporate’ role (known here as a Specialist role) based in central Wellington, NZ.

Me pēhea te tuku tono - To Apply/Interested?

For a copy of the position description please click here

For a confidential discussion please call Jeff McDonald on 021 846 312.

You must be a New Zealand Citizen or Permanent Resident and able to obtain and maintain a Top Secret NZ Government Security clearance.

Use this online tool to self-check your eligibility for a Top Secret security clearance. Please note that this tool is not part of the formal security clearance process:
Applications close at midnight on Sunday 2nd July