Senior Data Analyst, Tourism Insights (Fixed Term)

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment; Wellington; On-site; NZD 101,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

KiwiSaver

Wellness Benefits

Higher duties allowance

Job summary

MBIE is recruiting a Senior Data Analyst (Fixed Term) to join the Tourism Domain team within the Data, Intelligence and Insights Branch in Wellington (preferred) or Christchurch. The role focuses on maintaining tourism data, developing dashboards and data products, and delivering evidence-based insights for government and industry decisions.

You will work across MBIE and the tourism sector to improve data quality, modernise processes, and expand self-service analytics while communicating complex

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data management, analysis and visualisation.
• Strong experience using R and/or Python to manage, transform and analyse data.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with complex datasets.
• Experience developing dashboards, reports and interactive analytical products using Power BI or similar tools.
• Three or more years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience designing user-focused data products that improve accessibility, usability and decision-making.
• Experience gathering stakeholder requirements and translating them into practical analytical solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and conveying the messaging tailored to the audience.
• A commitment to innovation, continuous improvement and delivering high-quality customer-focused products.
• The legal right to live and work in New Zealand and the ability to satisfy MBIE's security clearance requirements if required.
• Experience working with tourism, economic, regional or government data.
• Knowledge of New Zealand's tourism sector, public policy environment or official statistics system.
• Experience developing public-facing dashboards, websites or data products.
• Experience with Power Automate, SharePoint or other modern information management and collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Help shape how New Zealand's tourism data is accessed, understood and used.
• Design and deliver impactful dashboards, data products, visualisations and insights for government and industry decision-makers.
• Apply your data, analysis and storytelling skills to turn complex information into practical evidence.
• Join a high-performing, collaborative team with a strong reputation for analytical excellence and stakeholder engagement.
• Support Tourism Data and Insights Work Programme and data stewardship activities.

Skills

Data analysis

Data visualization

R

Python

SQL

Power BI

3+ years

User-focused data

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

NZ work rights

Security clearance

Tools

Power Automate

SharePoint

Job description

MBIE is recruiting a Senior Data Analyst (Fixed Term) to join the Tourism Domain team within the Data, Intelligence and Insights Branch in Wellington (preferred) or Christchurch. The role focuses on maintaining tourism data, developing dashboards and data products, and delivering evidence-based insights for government and industry decisions.

You will work across MBIE and the tourism sector to improve data quality, modernise processes, and expand self-service analytics while communicating complex