Senior Design Analyst| Kaitātari Hoahoa Matua

Senior Design Analyst| Kaitātari Hoahoa Matua

If you're an analyst with a passion for working with large data sets, and have a knack for identifying trends and issues, this is the role for you!

Senior Design Analyst| Kaitātari Hoahoa Matua

Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.

Bring your statistical knowledge and problem-solving skills and apply them to real world methodological problems

Join a friendly team, with a supportive and collaborative culture

About Us | Ko mātou

Stats NZ | Tatauranga Aotearoa is a Central Government employer of 1200+ people across Aotearoa.

We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders.

Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.

We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.

What's in it for you?

| Ngā hua ka riro ki a koe

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about the Way We Work at Stats NZ and also check out our benefits.

We want working for us… to work for you!!

Starting salary: $96,307 - $113,303 + superannuation

Other benefits of joining Stats NZ include:

3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)

Flu Vaccines, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Eye Tests and corporate rates for a variety of services and products

Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)

Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa

City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs

The role | Te tūnga

This is a permanent role based in Christchurch or Wellington.

Reporting to the Manager Research & Development Hub in the Methods & Design unit your focus is developing and improving methods to derive census like information from administrative data and providing technical leadership to one of our workstreams.

While the immediate focus will be on census, including areas such as families and households, dwellings and individuals, it is expected that our research focus will adapt in the coming years to best support the organisation, and New Zealanders.

This role would suit someone who can bring:

Strong analytical expertise - experience leading the development of statistical methods and resolving conceptually and technically challenging issues, preferably using large and varied administrative datasets.

Can quickly pick up subject matter knowledge and become a technical leader in that area.

Knowledge and experience, or willingness to learn about Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori, and apply it to our work.

Strong communication and influencing skills - ability to explain complex methodologies and support informed decision making.

A proven track record of relationship building and navigating ambiguity with confidence.

Project and workstream leadership - examples where you've demonstrated leadership, e.g. coached and lifted others up, led by example, demonstrated problem solving, owned a project or piece of work, supported others through challenging technical work to deliver timely high quality research outcomes, spoken up for yourself or others.

Efficient coding skills honed while performing data analysis using R, Python, SAS or SQL.

Experience in a similar role that included a large component of delivering projects of a statistical or technical nature, and experience in paper publication processes.

Experience working with, or knowledge of administrative data in the Integrated Data Infrastructure in New Zealand is an advantage.

 What you bring | Nōu te rourou 

We understand transferable skills can come from experience gained from outside of work.

We encourage you to be you in your application.

We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability.

You don't need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us.

Tell us about yourself in your cover letter, what attracted you to this role, and what you would bring to Stats NZ.