Job Title: Share Point Specialist
Role type: Fixed-term until end Oct 2025, full-time
Location: Wellington
Salary Band: BTIS Salary Range E: $93,214 to $124,659 depending on skills and experience.

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
You will be a key member of the project team taking MPI and its people on the journey migrating to . This programme of work will enable staff to work efficiently and productively enabling MPI to deliver its core functions with ease.
This position will collaborate with key stakeholders such as our existing and established Data and Information, Architecture and Assurance, Service Delivery, Information Security and Privacy teams as well as working with external vendor expertise to help migrate MPI's content to the cloud.

As our Share Point Specialist you will:

• Provide technical subject matter expertise for information and data management for the Share Point 365 migration and ensure compliance with the Public Records Act for the Ministry and other relevant legislation.
• Manage the Share Point configuration and create documentation including policy standards and guidelines
• Monitor and stay ahead of changes to M365 Share Point, and ,
• Support the Information Management team, and wider Data and Information team, with changes, training, and support to enable them to become in-house owners of the service.
• Troubleshooting technical and migration support.

This is a challenging role that will give you the opportunity to use your extensive Share Point technical expertise to help make a difference to the way MPI's staff will be working.

Mōu - About You
This programme of work is already into the detailed design, so we need someone who can slot in, and help drive this project to the finish line.
You may already have contributed to a similar project within a large, complex government organisation and can bring your breadth of experience to this role.

To be successful you will need to:

• Work collaboratively and confidently with a wide range of people in different situations
• Be a team-player with excellent communication skills and emotional intelligence
• Work under general direction within a clear framework of accountability, show awareness, comfortable working within ambiguity, responding to complexity, take ownership and provide solutions.
• Support and promote the development of Share Point Online technical knowledge within the team
• Show a sound understanding of management of data and information within the New Zealand government context.
• A proven record of successful Business and IT Stakeholder management
• Tertiary qualification or comparable experience in a field strongly aligned with the management of information and data

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
The Data and Information team is part of Business Technology and Information Services and is responsible for managing the Ministry's core information and data, supporting and delivering analytic services, providing advice, and leading and championing the use of geospatial, unstructured, non-spatial and digital library information and data along with the associated enterprise tools.
The Information Management team is a small but mighty team of Analysts, and Senior Analysts, within the wider Data and Information Team, who focus on improving information management across MPI. This includes working to ensure MPI meets its regulatory information management obligations, and administration and support of MPI's enterprise content management system. This team is key to the migration and support of the Ministry's information to Share Point Online.
Projects and programmes of work move fast here and to be part of it will feel exciting as you see the impact of what we do is felt across the whole of MPI.

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
We're passionate about growing prosperity in the sector while ensuring respect for Kaitiaki – guardianship of our natural resources.
To find out more about the Ministry and what we do please click here.

Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI

• Up to 3 additional MPI leave days
• Wellness benefit for employees
• Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working
We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.

Ngā Taki Whakahaumaru - Security checks
Low level Security Clearance

• most preferably a New Zealand citizen, who has resided continuously in New Zealand for at least the last five (5) years, OR
• is a citizen of, and/or has resided continuously in one or more of the following countries for the last five (5) years: either Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom (UK) or the United States of America (USA); and has a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) towards a recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at this level.
• click here to find out more about the national security vetting process and access the eligibility self-check tool.

If you do not meet these minimum criteria, we will not be able to accept your application.

Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.
We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.
In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.
To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “Apply” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.

Applications close at 11:59pm on Friday, 4 October

If you have any questions about the role, please email Kirsty.Rogers@mpi.govt.nz

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