Mō Tatauranga Aotearoa | About Stats NZ
As New Zealand’s national statistics office, Stats NZ is uniquely positioned to support the decisions that the Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders make every day. Our structure, culture and systems are designed with collaboration and customers in mind – mobilised and working together to realise our ambition: About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa – data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
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Providing training and development to teams within Stats NZ. |
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Instructing external counsel. |
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Build connections and work collaboratively
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Establishing and maintaining a network of relevant stakeholders and collaborators within Stats NZ. |
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Assisting the organisation to operate safely while supporting the pace of change and level of transparency desired by Stats NZ’s leadership. |
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Exhibit Influence |
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Building and maintaining relationships at all levels within Stats NZ. |
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Providing healthy challenge and thought leadership to grow the level of understanding of legal enablers, risks and obligations. |
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Maintain External Relationships
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Establishing and maintaining a network of relevant peers to enable interchange of new information and practices. |
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Being an active participant in the activities of the Government Legal Network. |
Ngā āhuatanga e hiahiatia ana e Mātou | Person specification
An appointee will have:
- A tertiary qualification in law and the ability to hold a New Zealand Law Society Practising certificate.
- 5-7+ years post- qualification experience.
- Good knowledge of the public sector in-house environment.
- A broad range of legal experience, ideally including a mix of commercial, regulatory, public, administrative and/or privacy law experience.
- An ability to provide proactive and solution-focused advice that is simple, pragmatic and practical.
- A demonstrated ability to engage with and influence others across a range of disciplines.
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills.
Privacy and Legal
Privacy and Legal sites with the Organisational Infrastructure (OI) group. Organisational
Infrastructure works across all areas of Stats NZ providing a range of corporate functions. Integrating with Strategy, and People and Resources, OI provides technology services, privacy and legal advice, facilities management, commercial support, and leads the health, safety and wellbeing systems. Best practice portfolio project management is led by the OI Enterprise Portfolio office with the internal
audit team providing independent advice and assurance on risk management and control frameworks and processes. We represent the interests of Stats NZ with Industry and provide the voice of industry to inform our commercial decisions.