Senior Policy Analyst

**Job Title**: Senior Policy Analyst

**Role Type**: Permanent Full-Time preferred

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary Band D**: $98,955 - $127,260 depending on skills and experience

**About the Role - Korero mo te Turanga**

As a Senior Policy Analyst in Cost Recovery, you will play a key role in supporting the team's policy expertise within cost recovery and charging practices. You will contribute to the development and maintenance of our cost recovery policy frameworks, as well as establish clear and repeatable processes for regular updates to fee regulations.

In this role, you would have the opportunity to:

- Develop advice, frameworks, and guidance that result in effective, efficient, and fit for purpose implementation of cost recovery and delivery our regulatory functions for the primary sector on high profile projects.
- Develop practical and robust cost recovery policy advice, using evidence from a range of sources, to support decision makers on how to use cost recovery both as a regulatory tool and to enable performance improvement.
- Provide advice and guidance for cost recovery reviews to ensure effective and efficient levels of cost recovery.
- Develop strategic, innovative, and effective advice to problems.
- Ensure cost recovery practices are aligned to state sector good practice as well as linked to planning, budgeting, and performance systems.
- Facilitate updates to cost recovery regulatory settings.
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships across a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Build and deliver priority cost recovery workstreams for MPI.
- Provide coaching, mentoring support, and advice to analysts.

**About You - Mou**

As a Senior Policy Analyst, you will provide leadership and guidance across the business on cost recovery issues.

You are someone who:

- Provides clear, concise, well-reasoned, and practical advice.
- Is able to write clearly and succinctly for a range of audiences.
- Has a sound understanding of, and experience operating in, commercial/financial fee and price setting, and/or Government processes.
- Will bring a 'can do' attitude and take ownership of their work to deliver the best results.
- Has strong interpersonal skills and the desire to make a positive contribution to the team.
- Has worked in the public sector or are passionate about it.

**About the Team - Mo to matou Ropu**

The Cost Recovery directorate ensures that the right people pay the right price for MPI services. For example, the fee you pay for biosecurity clearance when you next cross the border. We ensure that MPI's price and price setting mechanisms are accurate, fair, encourage good behaviours, and are well regarded by industry and across the public service.

**About MPI - Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua**

We're a large organisation with massive scope from the frontline to policy development and beyond.

**Benefits of working at MPI - Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua**
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
- Mentoring and coaching programmes
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

**Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake?**

We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

**Applications close at 11.59pm 23 March 2025**

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