Principal Intelligence Analyst

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Are you an Intelligence Professional ready to contribute valuable insights in support of New Zealand’s national security?
- Are you a skilled mentor ready to set the standard for intelligence products and services?
- Advance your career in Intelligence and contribute to NZ’s security, law enforcement and nationwide regulatory practice.
- Permanent role, salary $95k - $115k, Wellington CBD, Kiwi-Saver and Wellness Benefits.

**Tēnei tūranga - About the role**:
The Principal Intelligence Analyst is an analytical and technical expert for MBIE Intelligence (MI). As such you will be responsible for providing valuable insights on the impacts of single or cross-cutting MBIE business areas, identifying risks and opportunities, both now and in the future.

In this senior role, you will work in partnership with your team, other MI functions, and external/international intelligence agencies to build relationships and ensure that intelligence products are shaped and presented to provide maximum value to our customers. As a mentor for Intelligence Analysts and Senior Intelligence Analysts, you will use your broad knowledge and experience to work through complex, ambiguous, and/or sensitive intelligence requests, helping to set the tone for standards and professionalism.

The Principal Intelligence Analyst will develop training in conjunction with Intelligence, Practice, and Professional Development, delivering this training as required with excellent presentation skills. You will be expected to provide specialist strategic advice to the Intelligence Leadership team and the wider Data, Insights, and Intelligence Leadership team, supporting the strategic direction of the group and MBIE.

MBIE supports a wide range of flexible working arrangements. Talk to us about what might work for both you and us.

About the team
This Principal Intelligence Analyst position will be placed in the National Security Mass Arrivals workstream. The Mass Arrivals (MA) workstream is responsible for supporting the Mass Arrivals Prevention and Response Strategies by delivering intelligence insights to Immigration New Zealand and other New Zealand Government stakeholders. MA supports our customers by informing on environmental and specific threats to New Zealand, having a tangible impact on New Zealand’s border security posture.

MI works with a ‘one team’ view. This means that all members contribute to the wide spectrum of MI’s work across various workstreams as needs and development opportunities require. MI also has a career progression framework that provides opportunities for all our team members to develop a career within MI.

**In return we offer**:

- The opportunity to come alongside and work in a great environment with a highly skilled and enthusiastic team.
- You will be able to learn from the experience of seasoned Intelligence practitioners and gain exposure to the wider NZ Intelligence Community
- You will be given every opportunity to expand your professional skills and cross-train with other agencies as those opportunities present.
- The chance to dive into work that can be fast-paced and will require you to demonstrate your flexibility, adaptability and resilience - this will stretch your thinking and your approach to problem solving as you assist with operational work.
- If you want to expand your potential, then this role is ideal to push those limits.

Skills and Experience

**We're really keen to hear from you if you have**:

- 2+ years Analyst experience at a senior level, preferably in a national security environment.
- Proven mentoring and coaching skills.
- Clear concise communication skills, written and oral.
- Excellent analytical skills, with a problem-solving approach and robust judgement.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop and maintain productive relationships across a diverse stakeholder base.
- A collaborative and action-oriented approach to issues, tasks and projects.
- Experience or background in Geospatial Intelligence or space-related technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt within a dynamic environment.

**The following may be an advantage**:

- A tertiary qualification or comparable relevant experience.
- Previous experience with regulatory functions or law enforcement in the public sector.
- An understanding of intelligence and risk management within the public sector.
- Experience handling sensitive or classified information.
- Have experience in supporting a national security response.

**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 opportuni