Portfolio Advisor - Investment

New Zealand Government; Porirua; On-site; NZD 88,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

New Zealand Police is seeking a Portfolio Advisor Investment to join the National Headquarters team in Wellington. You will contribute to portfolio planning, governance, and reporting within a dynamic, collaborative environment, ensuring data integrity and informed decision making across multiple projects.

The role focuses on delivering enterprise portfolio insights, improvements to delivery frameworks, and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders across the police and wider government

Qualifications

• Experience in advisory and portfolio or investment management.
• Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships.
• Strong data and financial tracking skills.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to planning, monitoring and delivery of the portfolio of projects; maintains data for benefits, risks and financials.
• Assists with governance documents and records in PPM tools; maintains enterprise governance records.
• Tracks the Enterprise Investment Pipeline; provides monthly pipeline reporting and risk/opportunity analysis.
• Contributes to portfolio performance reporting and trend analysis across projects and programmes.
• Builds strong working relationships with Portfolio Support and delivery teams; provides guidance to projects and programmes.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Advisory experience

Portfolio management

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification

Job description

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 15,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes. We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long‑term change.

Portfolio Advisor Investment

* Based at Police National Headquarters, Wellington * Permanent – Full Time * JR 6101636 E tῡ ki te kei o te waka, kia pakia koe e ngā ngaru o te wā. Stand at the stern of the canoe and feel the spray of the future biting at your face Mō te tūnga | About the role

The vision of Police is for NewZealand be the safest country. To achieve this, NewZealand Police is focused on preventing crime and harm, and ensuring everybody is safe, and feels safe, wherever they live, work or visit.

Key Accountabilities:

• Contributes to methods and practices for the effective planning, monitoring and delivery of the portfolio of projects. This includes: collecting, recording, and maintaining the integrity of key data points for the portfolio of projects across areas such as benefits, assurance, milestones, risks, and financials; assisting in the development and continuous improvement of delivery frameworks; delivery of regular portfolio, programme, and project induction and training.
• Responsible for assistance with key planning activities, including: assessment and feedback on project governance documents; establishing records within Police’s PPM tool (Sentient); maintenance of the enterprise governance decision record.
• Responsible for the timeliness, completeness and accuracy of the Enterprise Investment Pipeline, including: tracking of core baseline information for projects and reporting on current status; monthly pipeline reporting and analysis to determine slippage, risk, and opportunities within the portfolio.
• Contributes to strategic level commentary on the portfolio-wide view of Portfolio, Programmes and Projects. This includes: assisting in the development of enterprise portfolio performance reporting and trend analysis; assisting in the development of key opportunities and challenges across the overall health of the investment system.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with Portfolio Support functions and wider project delivery community. This includes: effective stakeholder communication to ensure that the best information is available to support decision-making; general query response and provision of advice and guidance across projects and programmes.

What you’ll bring

• Experience of working in a collective, collaborative leadership environment and ability to influence at all levels
• The ability to work in a highly collaborative way with a facilitative working style.
• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience in advisory and/or portfolio or investment management, and a commitment to ongoing professional development
• Highly experienced working in a structured project or programme delivery or portfolio management environment. This role is Individual Contributor/Emerging Leader level. You can refer to Indicators for Success for further information on the requirements To view the position description for this role please copy and paste this link into a new browser: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/pd/2026-11/Portfolio%20Advisor.pdf

About us

New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It works in partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, and other public sector agencies towards the vision of making New Zealand the safest country. Police is the government’s largest front‑line response agency with around 15,000 staff in large and small communities all over NewZealand and in liaison and policing development roles overseas. Your development is highly valued at NZ Police. Our employees enjoy significant investment in their development not only at an individual level, but also at the team and community practice level. We work hard to match you with work that will both play to your strengths and challenge you in new ways. The work you’ll be engaged in is real, tangible work that directly benefits our frontline and communities. Taken all together, this means we can offer you career path opportunities to progress in your chosen profession and become a more well‑rounded, experienced leader, with opportunities across the range of work we support.

Salary

This position is covered by a collective agreement, and salary will commence between $88,179 and $92,267 dependent on skills and experience relevant to the role.

Deadline for applications is 5:00 pm on Sunday 22nd November 2026. Applications may be reviewed prior to the close date as well as contact made with candidates. If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact Talent Pathway Advisor [e-mail]

All applicants must have the right to work in New Zealand.