Manager - Statistical Services

Job Description

At Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa, our vision is to unleash the power of data to change lives. As New Zealand's official data and statistics agency, we are tasked with leading the way for New Zealand's data future, enabling data-led innovation across society, the economy, and the environment.

We are seeking managers to join us in three of our teams.

The purpose of the role

The main priorities and tasks for this role are to:

• create and articulate the vision for your team
• lead and motivate your team, providing development and growth opportunities to help them reach their potential
• build and maintain collaborative relationships to ensure the needs of your customers, both internal and external, are anticipated and exceeded
• be responsible for the production of data, statistics, and insights that will be used for decision making
• lead innovation of production processes.

What you can bring to the role?

We are looking for people who are:

• passionate about leading talented people
• able to prioritise work to deliver to tight deadlines
• engaging and able to influence a wide range of audiences
• experienced in, or able to learn and understand, the development and delivery of statistical products and services.

What's in it for you?

You'll be joining an inclusive environment in which all people, regardless of gender, race, religion or background can come do their best work.

Our goal is to provide our people with a working environment that provides them with the opportunity to:

• have challenging, varied and interesting work
• develop and grow their careers through rotations and internal opportunities
• balance life and work, and
• work in anagile, dynamic and flexible manner.

We're offering a salary of between $93,000 - $110,000, depending on the skills and experience you bring to the role.

If this job sounds like you, head to careers.stats.govt.nz/mgr to find out more about the specific teams that have vacancies, to apply, and find out more about the process.

Or, to speak to someone email nick.walshe@stats.govt.nz

http://careers.stats.govt.nz/mgr

Applications close Sunday, 22 April 2018.