Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, New Zealand Looking for Principal Advisor, Planning at Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand Full Time

Fixed Term or Secondment to March 2025

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

A rare opportunity to work in a central agency, in the heart of Government, contributing to a high-value, meaningful, and impactful mandate of work.

This is a newly established role in the Planning, Reporting and Assurance team within the Cyclone Recovery Unit. Working in a niche team alongside other experts, the Principal Advisor, Planning will lead and contribute to the development, co-ordination and implementation of the Cyclone Recovery Plan across the Government system.

The role will focus on opening doors within the system, developing a robust planning culture across agencies, and inter-agency co-operation to manage risks, nurturing key relationships and maintaining a focus on turning strategy into operational action.

A key part of the planning process is to engage with multiple agencies as well as regional and community stakeholders including iwi/Māori to ensure their views and recovery planning considerations are aligned with central national planning. The role will help support the establishment of planning engagement forums with national and regional stakeholders.

The Cyclone Recovery team are based in central Wellington and operate in a flexible by default working style, meaning a positive work life balance is encouraged. We are looking to appoint in the range of $150,000 – $170,000 p/a (including Kiwisaver contributions), and according to relevant experience level.

Ko wai koe | About you

To be successful in this role you will be comfortable working in the following style

• Collaborative approach to effective stakeholder relationships and inhouse team cohesion
• Agile approach with the ability to quickly adjust and adapt to changing or ambiguous conditions
• Self-starter with the ability to demonstrate initiative, to prioritise effectively, to take action to clear obstacles and to find solutions
• Critical thinker with the ability to think analytically and strategically about issues and express ideas clearly and conceptually

Specific to this role, we welcome a wide range of applications and select on demonstrated capability of the following

• Experience within the public sector and sound knowledge of the machinery of government
• Experience in developing, authoring and implementing functional and operational plans
• Strategic, conceptual and critical thinking skills and strong analytical ability
• A knowledge of and interest in all-of-government system coordination and national security issues (broadly defined) would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of emergency management planning
• Knowledge of business continuity management
• Understanding of critical infrastructure and/or social and community resilience sectors
• Excellent senior level relationship management skills

Our Purpose – Ā Mātou Kaupapa

The Cyclone Recovery Unit (CRU) is hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet (DPMC).

The approach to the ongoing recovery from the flooding, and Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle will focus on being locally led and centrally supported. The CRU has been established to support the Chief Executive to lead and coordinate the Government’s recovery work programme, provide strategic policy and legal advice, support locally led engagement with communities, iwi, business, local government, regional groups and others, coordinate planning and reporting, provide advice on system risk and assurance, ensure alignment with wider policy decisions on long-term resilience, climate change and managed retreat, and provide the secretariat function for the Cyclone Recovery Taskforce.

Me pehea te tono |How to apply

Please apply online, we look forward to hearing from you. Applications close 8pm, Sunday 21st May 2023.