Advisor Change and Transition at Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington

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Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Location: Wellington
Business Group: Identity Operations
Branch: Regulatory and Identity Services
Salary Range: $81,665 - $101,627

If you're interested in making change happen, we want to hear from you.

Regulatory and Identity Services (Taituarā) has an important role - helping make New Zealand better for New Zealanders.

Every day our team helps thousands of people who call Aotearoa home. We do everything from helping people get a passport or become a citizen, to registering Births Deaths and Marriages. We work with the charities sector to help organisations flourish and make it easier for people to stay safe online.

It's a big job but we have a secret weapon - our people. They are a very precious taonga. We want them to be happy, motivated, informed and committed to making a difference. That's why we're investing in a team to support our people navigating change.

One of the roles is Advisor Change and Transition.

We're looking for someone who can understand change for our kaimahi, customers and partners to help develop and deliver change and transition activities to support them embed and adopt change.

The right person for this role will have experience, knowledge and able to:

• Identify change implications/impacts and assess what it means for our kaimahi, customers and partners, including interpretation of data and ways of working.
• Support the development, execution and delivery of business-aligned change strategies and plans (using your knowledge of change management principles and frameworks).
• Communicate, develop, and manage relationships and expectations with key stakeholders, including senior managers using a variety of methods, written, oral and presentations.
• Work closely with other enabling change capabilities such as communications and engagement; design and organisational development (OD)
• Provide ad hoc change management advice and business improvement advice.
• Understand government structures, processes, and business operating environments/operating context.
• Identify risks and issues with and mitigations using sound judgement on complex and critical issues

In exchange we can offer a competitive salary, a genuinely supportive work environment, variety, challenge and the chance to develop your career.

If this sounds like you, get in touch.

You must be a New Zealand citizen to apply for this role.

Applications close: 5pm, Tuesday, 26 January 2026.
For more information please contact: Rebecca.Roper@dia.govt.nz
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