Senior Advisor (Fixed-Term to June 2025) | Wellington City

Job Description

Te Haeata / The Opportunity

The Senior Advisor, Office of the Pou Whakatere Deputy Secretary Strategy is a key advisory role within the Office, supporting the Director, the Pou Whakatere Deputy Secretary Strategy, and Ātea a Rangi – Strategy leaders. The Senior Advisor works to identify and advise on emerging issues, ensure business group alignment, promoting and enabling connection and cohesion within Ātea a Rangi – Strategy.

This is a fixed-term opportunity through to 30 June 2025.

Ō pūkenga / Skills and Experience

To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrated Senior Advisor experience in large and complex organisations, including:

• Advising executive leaders and their teams to enable effective decision-making.
• Supporting integrated planning processes, ensuring that competing stakeholder interests are balanced.
• Supporting the development of OIAs, Parliamentary questions and official correspondence.
• Working as a strategic influencer across organisational business groups with varying unit goals but shared organisational goals.
• Communicating with a wide range of audiences on a range of complex issues.
• Able to build and maintain a range of effective business relationships within an organisation and a wide network of professional relationships across organisations.
• Experience in supporting a Minister's office and a senior executive's office, or equivalent experience supporting a strategic governance board.

Mō mātou / About Us

At Te Tāhū o te Ture - the Ministry of Justice, we're committed to strengthening people's trust in the law of Aotearoa, New Zealand.

The Ātea ā Rangi – Strategy purpose is to provide trusted and evidence-driven advice that is future focused, sets our strategic direction, and improves justice outcomes for Aotearoa New Zealand.

We set the strategic direction and drive enterprise-wide performance through planning, performance monitoring and reporting. This includes providing an assurance function, monitoring the Ministry's investment portfolio and providing assurance across enterprise risk and Crown Entities.

Joining Te Tāhū o te Ture means you will become part of an organisation that welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disabilities and religions. 

Utu ā-tau / Salary

The appointing salary for this role will be between $97,208 and $135,539, based on skills and experience.

Tono mai/How to Apply

To apply, click the Apply button below to be directed to our Careers Website. You can view a detailed position description here and complete an online application form by attaching your CV and cover letter.

Applications close on 1 December 2024; however, we will review CVs as they come in and invite successful candidates to interview before the close date.

If you have any questions, please contact recruitment@justice.govt.nz

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