Our long-term priorities

MBIE’s workforce and leadership representation goals – continued focus.

This information captures five-year goals to improve workforce and leadership representation at MBIE. The five-year period extends from the publication of the Kia Tū Ranga, MBIE’s pay gap action plan in late 2022 through to 2027.

Five-year target

Diversity Data

We aim to improve the quality of our ethnicity information. We will have at least 95 per cent of MBIE employees record their ethnicity/ethnicities (or indicate their preference not to say).

Senior leadership – Gender 

We aim to maintain a gender balanced senior leadership cohort (Tiers 1-3) using 40-20-40 (40 per cent male, 40 per cent female and a balance of 20 per cent of any gender).

Senior leadership – Ethnicity

We aim to increase diverse representation within MBIE’s senior leadership cohort (Tiers 1-3), including representation of Māori, Asian and Pacific Peoples .

Workforce representation – Ethnicity

We aim to improve ethnicity representation throughout our workforce to become reflective of the communities we serve. Improving on the workforce representation of Māori, while maintaining workforce representation of Pacific Peoples, Asian and MELAA (Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African).

Leadership representation – Ethnicity

We aim to improve ethnicity representation throughout our people leadership cohort, including Māori, Pacific and Asian employees while maintaining leadership representation of MELAA. With the ambition of our people leadership representation becoming reflective of the communities we serve.