Policy Advisor

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Investment Policy team has a vacancy for a Policy Advisor to develop your policy career at the heart of government policy-making on issues which affect New Zealand, contributing to the government’s economic development goals.

Requirements

• Be a logical thinker, problem solver and have a healthy level of curiosity.
• Enjoy working on complex problems, generating ideas and coming up with solutions.
• Have the ability to build relationships with others and work collaboratively.
• Build knowledge of a range of frameworks and methods and apply appropriate approaches to given policy issues.
• Use critical thinking, clear and logical reasoning and judgement to shape an ambiguous issue into a tractable problem; identify its root causes; draw interferences and use the available evidence in the development of policy options.
• Build requisite knowledge for different policy issues quickly, draw on knowledge of the policy area, use information and evidence from multiple and diverse sources.
• Be able to build relationships with stakeholders, delivery agencies and government agencies, understand their perspectives and reflect them in advice.
• Evaluate the potential risks and impacts of policy solutions.
• Use policy project management processes and has a working knowledge of policy and machinery of government processes.

Benefits

• KiwiSaver
• Wellness Benefits