Senior Strategy & Planning Advisor

Nz Ministry For Primary Industries; Wellington; On-site; NZD 103,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Additional MPI leave days

Annual Wellness payment

Eye test & lenses contribution

Job summary

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is seeking a Senior Adviser to join the Strategy and Planning team in Wellington. You will work with senior leaders to align long-term strategy with clear priorities and delivery, spanning enterprise strategy, high-priority products, and ministerial briefings.

You will manage work end to end, synthesise complex information into concise advice, and collaborate across MPI to strengthen strategic planning and performance.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience working on complex organisational issues in strategy, policy, planning, organisational performance, ministerial servicing, programme delivery, or a related advisory field
• Strong strategic, critical, and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to analyse complex issues and develop practical, well-reasoned advice
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to provide clear, concise, and well-judged advice
• Strong planning, prioritisation, and coordination skills across work involving multiple groups and competing demands
• Sound judgement, political awareness and confidence navigating sensitive or ambiguous issues
• The ability to build trusted relationships, influence constructively and work across organisational boundaries

Responsibilities

• Help develop, implement and refresh MPI's organisational strategy, priorities, and related planning products
• Manage assigned work end to end, including establishing an approach, coordinating input, and communicating progress and risks
• Bring together complex, incomplete, or competing information to produce clear, well-evidenced analysis and advice for senior leaders and, where required, Ministers and Parliament
• Support MPI's Briefings to incoming Ministers and other high-priority products
• Support enterprise programmes and strategic initiatives, including defined elements of MPI's Carbon Neutral Government Programme work
• Build trusted relationships across MPI, constructively challenge thinking, and improve the team's products and ways of working

Skills

Strategic thinking

Critical thinking

Systems thinking

Written communication

Planning & coordination

Judgement & political awareness

Relationship building

Job description

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is seeking a Senior Adviser to join the Strategy and Planning team in Wellington. You will work with senior leaders to align long-term strategy with clear priorities and delivery, spanning enterprise strategy, high-priority products, and ministerial briefings.

You will manage work end to end, synthesise complex information into concise advice, and collaborate across MPI to strengthen strategic planning and performance.