Ministerial Services Lead — Strategic Oversight & Impact

Marketplace; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 130,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Ministry for Ethnic Communities in Wellington is seeking a Workstream Lead for Ministerial Services to provide strategic oversight, leadership, and coordination of ministerial servicing. You will guarantee timely, accurate ministerial products and act as a key liaison between the Ministry and the Minister's Office.

The role requires extensive public sector experience, strong advisory skills, and the ability to drive improvements, embed robust processes, and manage risk for high-profile

Qualifications

• Extensive ministerial servicing experience in NZ public sector.
• Proven strategic advice to senior leaders.
• Experience embedding systems, processes, and ways of working.
• Quality assuring complex, high-profile ministerial products while proactively managing risk.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic oversight and operational coordination of ministerial servicing.
• Lead quality assurance and governance to meet ministerial obligations and manage risk.
• Serve as a key conduit between the Ministry and the Minister's Office, offering expert advice.
• Coach, mentor and guide teams delivering ministerial products and responses.

Skills

Ministerial servicing

Strategic advisory

Stakeholder mgmt

Risk management

Leadership & mentoring

Quality assurance

Job description

Ministry for Ethnic Communities in Wellington is seeking a Workstream Lead for Ministerial Services to provide strategic oversight, leadership, and coordination of ministerial servicing. You will guarantee timely, accurate ministerial products and act as a key liaison between the Ministry and the Minister's Office.

The role requires extensive public sector experience, strong advisory skills, and the ability to drive improvements, embed robust processes, and manage risk for high-profile