Team Leader – Corporate and Registries

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The Team Leader, Corporate and Registries is a team leadership position in MBIE. The Team Leader, Corporate and Registries will bring their business understanding and perspective to work in partnership with their manager and other staff.

The Team provides legal advice across all of MBIE’s operations and in relation to MBIE’s regulatory systems.

The Team also provides advice on governance, integrity and conduct matters that touch the organisation. This creates opportunities for our lawyers to work in relation to a range of different regulatory systems and operational areas depending on experience and interest.

The Team Leader is responsible for building and enhancing the overall capability of the Team to ensure quality and consistency of advice and practices in relation to the team’s work and deliverables.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Ability to work well in and lead a team.
• A highly regarded and well-respected legal practitioner in their area of expertise.
• Current holder of a practising certificate or ability to do so.
• Extensive experience and knowledge of relevant law including public law and statutory interpretation.
• The ability to reason robustly and persuasively and deliver successful outcomes in a demanding environment.
• An ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with a wide range of people both internal and external to MBIE.
• Able to lead assignments and cross group project work.
• Awareness of, and sensitivity to, the cultural values of different ethnic groups generally, and the Tangata Whenua in particular.
• Knowledge of the Treaty of Waitangi and its impact on MBIE’s work.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Responsibilities of this position are expected to change over time as the Ministry responds to changing needs. The incumbent will need the flexibility to adapt and develop as the environment evolves.

The Team Leader will be required to deliver results in the following areas:

• Oversees and leads the day-to day work of the team.
• Together with the other Team Leader in Corporate & Registries allocate work across the teams.
• Ensures the high quality provision of timely and accurate legal advice to MBIE managers and staff as required by the Manager Legal Services (Corporate and Registries).
• Instructs Crown Solicitors.
• Provides training for MBIE staff on legal-related matters.
• Communicates effectively and exercises sound judgement.
• Provides leadership and management to the Team.
• Supports the Manager Legal Services (Corporate and Registries) with advice and staff resources to meet MBIE’s corporate and regulatory systems stewardship responsibilities.
• Supports the Manager Legal Services (Corporate & Registries) with development and maintaining of processes for how teams work together and with the Manager Legal Services (Corporate & Registries) to enable the delivery of high quality consistent service and delivey of outcomes, including monitoring and reporting requirements.
• Performs other duties as may from time to time be determined or required by the Manager Legal Services (Corporate and Registries).
• Delivers the Team’s objectives and supports the wider Legal branch objectives. Actively supports and contributes to the achievement of the Ministry’s outcomes and delivers to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.

MBIE Personal Leadership

• Provide leadership that engages and motivates others to succeed and develop, and proactively share experience, knowledge and ideas.
• Models high standards of professional integrity.
• Models positive management and leadership behaviours.
• Models the desired values and culture of the organisation and leads this across the team.
• Fosters an open, collaborative environment that encourages quality, innovation, ongoing learning and knowledge sharing within the team and across the Legal Branch.
• Provides improved ways of doing things and drives improvements through to implementation.

Team Management

• Applies sound general management practices so that the team operates effectively and efficiently, and delivers agreed outputs to support achievement of MBIE outcomes.
• Implements strategies, work programmes and performance targets for the team with supporting measurement, monitoring and reporting mechanisms.
• Regularly monitors and reports on progress towards achievement of plans and strategies.
• Continually reviews and considers improvement to all elements of the team’s operations.
• Effectively and consistently identifies and manages risk.
• Manages expenditure and resources in line with approved delegations, guidelines, budget, deadlines and reporting requirements, with a focus on cost effectiveness in the Ministry.

Team Leadership

• Builds and maintains a high performing team that is capable of delivering innovative advice, products and services to support MBIE’s strategic direction.
• Establishes clear accountabilities, expectations and performance standards with direct reports and ensures regular. performance management and development occurs.
• Monitors individual and team performance to ensure that performance targets are met.
• Provides feedback to staff on team and individual performance.
• Motivates team members and gives them opportunities to participate.
• Coaches and develops staff to meet the needs of MBIE now and in the future.
• Experience in creating a strong team environment where people can grow and develop.

Technical Legal Advice

• Recognised as an expert in identifying and analysing legal and other issues and the provision of sound advice in a business context. Seen as a go to person within the team.
• Lead complex assignments and teams dealing with strategically important issues.
• An effective advocate and presenter who consistently demonstrates excellent judgement on a wide range of legal and related matters.
• Able to undertake engagement with stakeholders independently with advice from the manager; including proactively identifying client needs, possible legal and other issues and engaging accordingly.
• Identifies and escalates potential legal and other risks and opportunities that may impact on MBIE and develops options for mitigating them.
• Understands MBIEs’ legal business and consistently operates strategically.
• Proven ability to consistently communicate in a clear and concise manner on complex matters to a wide audience.
• Takes the lead on developing and maintaining competencies with an increased level of self-reflection on effectiveness and self-management.

Customer Focus

• Delivers a targeted service to internal and external stakeholders. Works to a high standard and always looks for ways to do things better.
• Identifies the needs or expectations of customers.
• Treats internal customers with the same courtesies they would extend to external customers.
• Works hard to meet customer deadlines.
• Always looks to improve service.
• Maintains professionalism.

Relationship Management

• Manage constructive working relationships with work colleagues and external stakeholders to enhance understanding and cooperation needed to achieve desired results.
• Participates as an active team member and contributes knowledge and expertise needed to achieve MBIE’s outcomes.
• Develops effective working relationships with other MBIE staff in order to transfer knowledge and learning from the team to the wider organisation.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, as necessary, in order to identify and share best practice information and to promote the Ministry, its products and services.
• Represents whole-of-Ministry views and protects its reputation in any external interactions.

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 Team Leader – Corporate and Registries position reports into the Manager Legal Services within the Legal, Ethics and Privacy Branch, in the Corporate Services, Finance & Enablement Group.

More information about MBIE's structure

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