Policy Project Coordinator

• Permanent, full-time
• Wellington

Kia ora, Bula Vinaka, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Fakatalofa atu, Kia orana, Malo e lelei, Malo ni, Talofa lava, Tena koutou katoa and welcome.

Help shape the future of Education

At the Ministry of Education, we work together to shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes.

Our organisation is made up of more than 3,000 talented and committed people around New Zealand, from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures.

While we work in different groups and on different things, we all strive every day to make the biggest difference we can for every child, young person and adult student in our education system.

About our group and team

Te Puna Kaupapahere is the Ministry’s policy group with a whole-of-system focus covering early learning, compulsory schooling, and tertiary. This includes Māori medium, te reo Māori, Pacific and Learning Support.

We provide advice to enable an education system which contributes to the skills and knowledge needed by people for social, cultural, economic and environmental wellbeing. We develop policy about vocational skills, access pathways, international education, and student financial support.

We also manage the Ministry’s international engagements and cooperation agreements

About this role

We are looking for a Policy Project Coordinator.

Reporting to the policy work Programme Manager, the role is responsible for supporting policy managers and their teams in structuring, managing and reporting on complex or significant pieces of work.

This is as much a solo role as it is part of the wider Policy programme support and coordination team (PSC). The streams of work you will support will see you deployed to provide assistance as work is initially stood up (calling on your expertise to embed best practice and establish reporting templates and work to prepare the manager etc.), right through to working as part of the wider team to proactively support significant and complex pieces of work that reach across the whole Ministry or educational sector.

This role is the typical, no two days are the same type of position. No two projects are the same and therefore the call on your focus, experience, relationship skills and working pace will change frequently.

About you

Comfortable engaging with a variety of audiences, you will thrive on variety, challenges and bringing organisation and shape to fast paced fluid challenges with significant deliverables.

Because of the need for this person to hit the ground running, and support managers to establish best practice, you will need to be able to demonstrate a strong background in a similar project coordination type position.

You will also have:

• Demonstrated experience working in a fast-paced working environment
• The ability to develop working relationships and build credibility at all levels
• Excellent oral and written communications, including the ability to present complex issues clearly and concisely.
• Experience in a government agency or the education sector is highly advantageous
• Knowledge of the Treaty of Waitangi and its implications for the work of the Ministry

Are you ready to make a difference?

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds, including Māori, Pacific, and those with disabilities, who will enrich our understanding of the education system.

As a government agency, the Ministry is committed to keeping to the Treaty of Waitangi’s guiding principles in our work for and with Māori students, their whānau, hapū and iwi.

The Ministry invites applications from fully vaccinated people or people with a valid medical exemption (under the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021). We will require evidence of your vaccination status, or your medical exemption, at the pre-employment stage of our recruitment process.

There is more information in the Job Description attached, please review and if this opportunity interests you and you meet the requirements, please apply now using the ‘Apply Online’ button.

For further information, please contact Anne Fontaine at Anne.Fontaine@education.govt.nz

Applications close 17 February 2022