At Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education, we work to provide services and support nationally, regionally and locally to the education sector, and in some cases, directly to ākonga and whānau.

We help shape the policies, settings and performance of the education system for early learning, schooling and tertiary. We do this by building relationships and understanding the needs of those who receive our services.

We are making significant changes to how we deliver our mahi by

• Taking practical action to give effect to te Tiriti o Waitangi. 
• Giving priority to regional and local voice. 
• Delivering greater responsiveness, accessibility and integrated services and support.
• Improving feedback loops and information flows. 

Our organisation is made up of talented and committed people across Aotearoa from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures. While we work in different groups and on different things, we all strive every day to make the biggest difference we can for every child, young person and adult student in our education system. 

About our group and team

Te Mahau | Te Pae Aronui (Operations & Integration) use information, insights and service design functions to help the three Te Mahau frontline groups design and deliver services for our sector. We service and support the frontline groups and play an integration role between the enabling functions and our frontline services.

The Resourcing Group is responsible for delivering operational funding and staffing entitlements to nearly 2,500 schools. We administer annual payments of approximately $5.8 billion to schools and kura.

We provide high quality financial advice and support to schools and Boards of Trustees.  We ensure schools and early childhood centres receive correct resourcing entitlements through our Monitoring programme. We provide resourcing operational policy advice and guidance and produce one-off solutions to resourcing issues.  Our Resourcing Contact Centre also provides direct telephone and email support to schools, early childhood centres and the general public.

Mō tēnei tūranga | About this role

School Resourcing Advisors are responsible for determining and delivering the current School Resourcing system and the provision of high-quality operational advice across the schooling sector.

School Resourcing Advisors contribute to the analysis that supports effective planning and decision making and will support a range of project initiatives to ensure quality tools, processes and systems are developed to support the Ministry and the Education Sector.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in the outcomes of young people by ensuring the best funding systems for schools.

Please note there is further information in the attached Job Description.

Mōhou ake | About you

We are looking for someone who is wiling and able to work at pace, manage a variety of tasks and projects and use their own initiative.

Your personal qualities will include;

• taking pride in producing written work and other forms of communication to the highest quality
• have the interpersonal skills to relate well with all kinds of people
• good background experience and skills that will contribute to the team successfully
• provide high quality services to the sector and across the Ministry
• experience in Education or Finance would be beneficial