Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Join the Health & Safety Policy team or Employment Standards Policy team within the Workplace Relations and Safety Policy branch. Contribute to shaping New Zealand's health and safety or employment standards systems. Solve complex economic, regulatory and stewardship problems. Work with regulators, businesses, and other stakeholders on high profile work. Wellington Central location. Salary range: $110,098 - $138,028 p.a. plus Kiwisaver and Wellness Benefits. Our Senior Policy Advisors play a significant role in the regulation of work in New Zealand. You'll be part of a team with a policy programme that directly impacts the lives of most New Zealanders. Our policy advice spans areas like the minimum wage, the Holidays Act, pay transparency, employment law, parental leave, modern slavery, migrant exploitation, health and safety regulations and ACC settings. You will work closely with your team and our policy leaders to support a high performing branch that is also a great place to work. About the teams: Health and Safety Policy New Zealand's workplace fatality rate is high compared to countries like Australia and the United Kingdom. Workers, organisations, and businesses spend a lot of time and money trying to comply with health and safety rules and regulations, to keep themselves, their workers and those affected by their work safe. You'll be part of a team that is working to answer these questions. The Health and Safety Policy team lead advice on strategic issues across work health and safety and energy safety including regulatory reform, system priorities, system performance and interfaces, oversight of system levers and funding matters. The work involves a mix of strategic and regulatory work and support for WorkSafe's operational policy development. Our current work programme includes a first principles review of the health and safety regulatory framework, starting with public consultation; advice on regulator and system performance measures and targets; and advice on potential controls on working with engineered stone to address risks of silicosis. You will have a portfolio of work ranging from leading on discrete items of regulatory reform through to involvement in a project team advising on broader system issues like the regulatory framework and system performance and governance. You'll be working in a friendly team that values and supports your development and creates an environment that enables you to be proactive and take ownership of your work. Employment Standards Policy We advise Ministers on the minimum employment standards that apply to all workers. Our work ensures that settings remain relevant and fit-for-purpose, while responding to the changing economic context and new technology. Our advice balances the protection of workers with compliance costs for employers and encourages innovation above minimum standards. Our team is friendly and supportive of one another. We value the ability to work through complex issues and develop practical solutions. The work programme includes reviewing the minimum wage and the Holidays Act, work on parental leave, and the boundary between employee and other kinds of working arrangements. About the branch The Workplace Relations and Safety Policy branch operates as a team and not as a hierarchy. You'll be responsible for providing advice and will have plenty of opportunities to discuss it directly with Ministers. You'll be part of a team filled with smart and committed policy professionals with excellent policy craft skills and domain knowledge. Our Senior Policy Advisors work on complex and high-profile government policy projects. They apply their policy expertise to deliver results for New Zealand. They use their strong communication and influencing skills to engage and work collaboratively with various groups. Nga pukenga me nga wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required: We are looking for motivated people with experience in solving complex problems and formulating high-quality policy advice. Ideally you will: have experience leading complex policy projects within central government understand Te Tiriti o Waitangi and have applied it in public policy and in partnership with Maori have wide ranging knowledge of policy development disciplines and processes have a good understanding of economic principles and the New Zealand economy build strong stakeholder relationships, using influencing and engagement skills to gain the cooperation and commitment of others have demonstrated capability in working with Ministers, senior public service officials, internal and external stakeholders have a passion for leading and coaching others to develop their policy craft and take their careers to the next level be able to work through ambiguity and deliver results Applications close on Friday, 1st November 2024. #J-18808-Ljbffr