22/319 Assurance Consultant at Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Location: Wellington
Business Group: Agency Partnerships and Capability 
Branch: Digital Public Service 
Salary: $117,300 - $158,700

ASSURANCE CONSULTANT (3 permanent positions)

• Are you interested in collaborating with different groups to lift assurance capability across the public service?
• Are you confident in communicating complex ideas, bringing others along on the journey and sharing knowledge?
• We offer a range of flexible working options to meet the needs of your whānau and life commitments!

About us:

Our public service is being called upon to deliver a unified, seamless and effective digital experience for all New Zealanders.  As a member of Digital Public Service/Te Kōtui Whitiwhiti branch you will help champion this change. Bring your assurance experience, vision and influence to take our work to the next level, helping to develop a strong, successful, and connected digital public service. 

 In this role, your expertise will be central to our success, supporting the Government Chief Digital Officer and the Strategy for a Digital Public Service.  You-ll collaborate across the public sector to improve processes and assurance to achieve our strategic goals.  More information about the strategy can be found here: https://www.digital.govt.nz/digital-government/strategy/

Meet our people here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7k4HZP2N0

 About the role:

The Assurance Consultant will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that works with and through agencies to develop their digital maturity in the broad area of assurance. This will enable stakeholders to make informed decisions on complex and emerging issues while maintaining a clear focus on their desired strategic outcomes.

Acting as a trusted advisor, you will support system-wide digital and ICT assurance and risk management through guidance, capability development and engagement with key stakeholders. Your work will help lift assurance maturity to enable agencies to understand their obligations.  As an Assurance Consultant, you will be able to help others positively adapt to changes and demands in a dynamic digital environment.

You will be strongly supported in an environment that values continuous improvement and fosters a culture of encouraging -big picture- thinking to help our people connect and build better results for New Zealand through a unified public service.  

What will you bring to the role?

• You will bring an inclusive style to your work with the confidence to build strategic partnerships with agencies to deliver practical solutions to achieve common goals.
• You will use your expertise to navigate complex situations with ease and facilitate the provision of strategic and high-quality advice.
• You-ll have a keen ability to understand and assess levels of risk and develop and execute plans to mitigate risk, or escalate where needed. 
• You-ll identify trends and emerging issues relevant to industry practices and standards, and leverage those to build future capability across the sector. 
• As a skilled relationship manager, you-ll provide influential and fit-for-purpose advice to stakeholders which support the strategic direction of assurance-related matters. 
• This role will be working, among other things, with payroll assurance so exposure to this topic would be helpful but is not required.   
• We are committed to increasing our cultural confidence as an organisation so proficiency in Te Reo Māori would also be incredibly valuable.

What we offer:

• Exposure across government agencies with value-driven, interesting work
• The on-going support of teams within the branch to encourage diversity of thought and challenge the status quo and knowledge sharing
• A range of benefits including access to discounted healthcare, subsided school holiday programmes, allowance for vision and hearing care, with a variety of social committee and networks available

We offer a culture where our people are committed to creating a working environment that is inclusive and encourages talent and potential to thrive. We strongly believe in work life balance and this is practiced with a range of flexible work options and wellbeing initiatives - just talk to us about what works for you.

To learn more about the diverse, important mahi we do at Te Tari Taiwhenua and see why we're a great place to work, click here.

We work to make New Zealand better for New Zealanders through our four outcome areas:

• People can easily access the services and information they need
• Iwi, hapū and communities across New Zealand are safe, resilient and thriving
• People's sense of belonging and collective memory builds an inclusive New Zealand
• New Zealand is a well-functioning democracy across central and local government

Applications close: 5pm, 29 May 2022

For more information please contact: Heena.ravji@dia.gov.nz 

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