THE CURRENT LANDSCAPE OF RECRUITMENTAfter a slow start in January, the market has really kicked off. We are seeing a sense of urgency across the recruitment of permanent roles. Equally, with the election date set and some highly political projects announced, the appetite for contractors appears to be picking up and should continue to do so as we move through February and into March. For many key policy initiatives, there seems to be a big focus on maintaining momentum and keeping delivery on track as we approach the end of the financial year. As with last year, good candidates are still thin on the ground, so there is still a real need for agencies to work closely with recruitment agencies to make sure their roles and organisations are represented effectively to potential candidates. The uncertainty that an election year brings means that a key motivator for contractors, in particular, is securing work that will get them close to or past the election. It’s therefore an important time to engage with your recruitment partners, contractors, and candidates as early as possible, to manage expectations around extensions and additional resource requirements. Those who can work collaboratively and move quickly will secure the skills sets that will allow their projects to stay on track over the coming months. If you'd like to have a chat around your recruitment and team requirements, feel free to contact us at any time on (04) 473-6699. Cheers, Clive, Sally, James, Lisa, Leah, Marissa, and Georgie MEET THE STAR CANDIDATES: CONTRACT SENIOR / PRINCIPAL ADVISORExperience:This professional, results orientated contractor who enjoys working with policy, process and people can rapidly add value to any environment and can translate strategy and policy into operational outcomes ensuring alignment with the goals of the organisation and administration of the day. This contractor has extensive Senior policy experience, as well as Principal level experience. They have worked across Maori investment and growth at TPK and MoE, as well as investment at SIA, MBIE, MFAT, and MoJ. This collegial contractor earns the trust of teams and colleagues and quickly builds credibility by delivering what they commit to, cultural awareness, and the development and maintenance of positive, enduring relationships. Skills:
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Salary expectations: $144.23 per hour including AoG plus GST Reference ID: 25483 Contact: James Atkin, Lisa Johnston, or Leah Mor on (04) 473-6699 PRINCIPAL / LEAD ADVISOR Experience: This public sector management and advisory professional has extensive experience delivering on complex programmes across government. They demonstrate strong a skill set across strategic and operational management, planning and delivery. Further, they have an excellent understanding of the machinery of government having worked across a number of agencies covering a diverse range of projects covering Housing, Transport, Cross-agency, regional, provincial growth fund and most recently immigration work. This contractor is ideally looking for roles that will allow them to focus on a specific project involving strategy development and the implementation / operationalisation of that strategy. They also enjoy working with operational agencies where they can see how the delivery of the project and strategy directly affects the relevant stakeholders involved. Skills:
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Salary expectations: $168.27 per hour including AoG, plus GST Contact: James Atkin, Lisa Johnston, or Leah Mor on (04) 473-6699 SUBMISSIONS ANALYSIS / PROJECT POLICY Experience: With at least at least 20 years’ experience in managing and undertaking submissions analysis of different scales and on a wide range of subjects, this contractor has established analytic frameworks, trained and supervised analytic staff as well as undertaking analysis. They particularly enjoy all aspects of this work, but also demonstrates experience in policy related research, evaluation, governance, monitoring and project management work. They have delivered across a variety of projects with DPMC, MoJ, MoE, MoH and MfE, MBIE, to name a few. They have been involved directly managing the output of others, contract management or acting as a technical advisor, coordinator, or facilitator. Skills:
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Salary expectations: $144.23 per hour including AoG plus GST Contact: James Atkin, Lisa Johnston, or Leah Mor on (04) 473-6699 SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST Experience: With six years of experience as Business Analyst (IRD, MOE, DIA), this warm and engaging contractor has exceptional writing skills combined with an operations background. They are passionate about and love running workshops and developing work-programmes to achieve business strategies, establishing work teams, and leading work-streams through to delivery and operational change. Further, they are a people and change leader with experience in large, complex government agencies, specialising in delivering process and system change, and growing teams. Skills:
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Salary expectations: $132.21 per hour including AoG plus GST Reference ID: 32472 Contact: James Atkin, Lisa Johnston, or Leah Mor on (04) 473-6699 MEET THE STAR CANDIDATES: PERMANENT PRINCIPAL ADVISOR Experience: This candidate is a principal policy analyst with an in-depth experience in Māori development policy that includes health, child and whānau wellbeing, education and kaupapa Māori research. They have provided both strategic and operational policy advice in central, national and regional government agencies. Skills:
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Salary expectations: $135,000.00 Contact: Georgie Carter, Clive Horne, or Sally Whyte on (04) 473-6699 SENIOR ADVISOR Experience: This candidate is currently a Senior Policy Advisor in Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. They have experience leading policy work and led engagement with external stakeholders, including iwi and industry groups. They have also worked at the Treasury where they were an Analyst Skills:
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Salary expectations: $100,000.00 Contact: Georgie Carter, Clive Horne, or Sally Whyte on (04) 473-6699 SENIOR ADVISOR Experience: This candidate is currently a Senior Advisor at Ministry of Health. They have participated in the transformation programmes in response to He Ara Oranga and authored the national psychosocial plan after the Christchurch terror attacks. They developed and wrote the national psychosocial plan, published on the Ministry of Health website, to support people affected by the Christchurch mosque attacks of 15 March 2019; and have have engaged with external stakeholders at an executive level. Skills:
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Salary expectations: $100,000.00 Contact: Georgie Carter, Clive Horne, or Sally Whyte on (04) 473-6699 ADVISOR Experience: This candidate has most recently been a Graduate Policy Adviser at Ministry of Transport. They’ve been involved in several pieces of work including, leading a proposed amendment to the Vehicle Emissions Rule, leading the transport response to the Productivity Commission’s Low Emissions report, processing multiple OIAs of varying complexity, and providing briefings on media events and other miscellaneous work. Skills:
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Salary expectations: $70,000.00 Contact: Georgie Carter, Clive Horne, or Sally Whyte on (04) 473-6699 CAN'T FIND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR? Feel free to contact the team directly to see more contractor and permanent candidates. |