Job Description

Permanent, fulltime, Wellington CBD

Te Haeata/The Opportunity

Are you passionate about turning data into meaningful insights that drive better people decisions? We are looking for a People Insights Analyst to join our People Experience team and play a key role in shaping workforce planning, strategy, and decision-making across the organisation.

People Insights Analyst level 2 – Performance, Remuneration & Programmes team

In this role, you'll gather, analyse, model and interpret workforce data to provide valuable insights into workforce trends, participation, and performance. You'll work with a variety of stakeholders to develop reporting, forecasting, and visualisations that support evidence-based decision making and help improve people outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine technical expertise with business partnering, helping to deliver high-quality analytics that influence key people initiatives and organisational priorities. You'll also contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance data quality, reporting processes, and analytical capabilities.

Ō Pūkenga/Skills And Experience

To be successful in this role, you'll bring:

- Experience working with complex qualitative and quantitative data, with the ability to draw out patterns, identify key insights, and translate findings into practical advice or recommendations.
- A curious and questioning mindset, with the confidence to explore data, test assumptions, and identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen eye for detail and data quality.
- Experience developing reports, dashboards, visualisations and workforce analytics that support decision making.
- Strong capability using data and analytics tools such as SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, Python, R, SAS, or similar platforms to extract, analyse, model, and present data.
- The ability to identify business needs, gather relevant data, and tell a compelling story through analysis and reporting.




- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical information to non-technical audiences.
- Experience building and maintaining effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience.
- An understanding of people analytics, workforce planning, HR data, or public sector environments would be advantageous.
- A commitment to understanding and contributing to meaningful outcomes for Māori.

Mō mātou/About us

At Te Tāhū o te Ture - the Ministry of Justice, we're committed to strengthening people's trust in the law of Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Our People Experience team is dedicated to creating a workplace where people can thrive and deliver their best work. We partner across the organisation to provide strategic people solutions, workforce insights, and data-driven recommendations that support organisational goals and improve employee experience.

By combining people expertise with robust analytics, we help leaders make informed decisions that strengthen workforce capability, performance, and wellbeing.

Joining Te Tāhū o te Ture means you will become part of an organisation that welcomes and supports people of all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, disabilities and religions.

Ngā painga o tēnei wāhi mahi/What's great about working here

Advantages

- 4.4 weeks annual leave
- flexible work hours where possible
- an online professional development portal
- access to a variety of inclusive and proactive networks

See our full range of benefits here.

With a wide range of jobs, you also get the chance to gain a variety of skills and experience while developing your career.

Utu ā-tau/Salary

The remuneration band for this role is $85,562 to $116,273 – while the appointing salary will be based on skills and experience, we are willing to pay higher in the band to attract strong candidates into this role.

Applications close on Wednesday 5 August; however, we will be reviewing CVs as they come in and inviting successful candidates to interview before the close date.

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