Senior Investment Manager
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Senior Investment Manager manages investment functions for specific funds - balancing effort on selection and managing investments.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- Understanding of the current issues, challenges, and trends in the New Zealand science & innovation system.
- Business, academia, government, or investment.
- Networking, influencing and relationship management skills, to achieve outcomes.
- Communication and negotiation skills; able to establish rapport quickly, put people at ease while influencing and achieving outcomes and building long term relationships.
- Able to work with ambiguity, can shift gears comfortably and can decide and act without having the total picture.
- Managing investment in either the public or private sector through complete cycles of investment based on sound business, financial and governance skills and experience.
- Juggling multiple demands, ability to change focus quickly and to deliver results under pressure.
- Working collaboratively.
- Able and willing to contribute towards mentoring of junior staff.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Understanding and experience of the machinery of government and public sector management.
- Experience of governance and leadership.
- Judgement of applying decision-making to investment process.
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant field (science, engineering, business).
- Substantial experience in a range of positions relevant to this role (investment management, strategy development, relationship management, contract management).
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
Leadership and influence
- Developing a strong understanding of the portfolio of relevant science and infrastructure.
- Leads and builds strong relationships with users of science, education and research providers, industry, community, and public stakeholders and recognized as a leader.
- Providing deep sector expertise to support the branch in making, managing, and assessing science investments (including identifying strategic risks and opportunities).
- Sharing knowledge across MBIE, other government agencies, and other organizations with an interest in science, to influence others to support wider government outcomes (including supporting the development of sector strategies).
- Developing a strong understanding of Māori interests and how they influence selection and management of research investments.
- Demonstrates and builds communication and negotiation skills.
- Understands Māori research interests and applies to investment processes.
- Board governance/observer.
Analysis, ambiguity, and complexity
- Develops deep sector expertise, based on ongoing contact, with presumption of subject matter expertise.
- Understands and able to address challenges/trends/issues in Science and Innovation system.
- Identifies and manages strategic opportunities, risks, using political nous.
- Successfully conducts data analysis.
- Experienced in project management.
Making investments
- Develops and implements Investment Plans or other investment strategies according to policies.
- Plans, manages, and runs efficient, smart funding processes across a variety of funds.
- Contributes to policy development.
- Leads contract drafting and negotiations.
- Conducts financial management of funds or groups of contracts (forecasting, modelling, budgeting).
- Analyse and advise on business cases.
- Adapt working styles and processes to reflect each fund’s different objectives and design principles.
Managing and monitoring investments
- Effective performance evaluation and monitoring of investments, including the governance of the investments and delivery against contracted outputs.
- Ensuring annual reports and periodic reviews are completed.
- Leading reviews and annual reporting processes.
- Working closely with other teams within the Science System Investment and Performance Branch, and with other branches including the Science Innovation and International branch, and the Entity Performance and Investment Branch.
Branch and team effectiveness
- Identifying strategic issues and risks.
- Working flexibly across work areas to contribute expertise across teams, and support to each other at times of peak workload.
- Developing new processes, and identify and implement process improvements, with the Service Design and Reporting and Investment Operations teams, and contributing to policy development.
- Providing advice to the Minister relating to Ministerial Questions, Briefings, Cabinet papers, speeches and OIA requests.
- Contributing to other work of the team as directed by the manager.
- Substituting for the team manager as required.
- Providing guidance, coaching, mentoring and on-the-job training to other team members.
- Leading projects.
Wellbeing, health and safety
- Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
- Ensures own and others safety at all times.
- Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
- Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
- Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.
Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry
The Senior Investment Manager position reports into the respective Investment Manager within the Science System Investment and Performance branch. The branch sits within the Labour, Science and Enterprise group.
Matatautanga – Competencies (Leadership Success Profile)
The Leadership Success Profile (LSP) is a leadership capability framework, developed by the New Zealand public sector for the New Zealand public sector. It creates a common language for leadership and establishes what great leadership looks like. You can look at the twelve underpinning capabilities and four leadership characters here: Leadership Success Profile | Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission(external link)
To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand
Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.
To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.
As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.
Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service
Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.
In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.
What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission
