Design Analyst and Insights Analyst | Kaitātari Hoahoa and Kaitātari Māramatanga

Statistics NZMiramar

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Design Analyst and Insights Analyst | Kaitātari Hoahoa and Kaitātari Māramatanga

Statistics NZ

Closing date : Oct 1, 2025
Permanent Full Time
Multiple Location Options
1x Design Analyst (Fixed-term until September 2027)
1x Insights Analyst (Permanent)
Use your passion for data to improve the lives of people in Aotearoa

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

Salary : $ 83,195 to $ 97,876 + superannuation

Other benefits of joining Stats NZ include :

Balance life and work commitments

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

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

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

City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs, including state of the art, 6-star green building in Pōneke.

The roles | Te tūnga

We have a Design Analyst and Insights Analyst role available across our Macroeconomics unit in Insights and Statistics, based in Pōneke (Wellington city) or Ōtautahi (Christchurch).

Design analysts and Insights analysts are responsible for producing and maintaining our statistical products, building relationships internally and externally, providing coaching and support to other staff and contributing to the advancement of your area of expertise.

Design Analysts also :

Design innovative processes, research techniques, methods, tools, standards to support statistical or data production and services.

Provide specialist advice on area of expertise.

Maintain data quality standards.

The Institutional Sectors team is responsible for producing statistics on local government finances, balance sheets for the economy, and institutional sector accounts.

Insights Analysts also :

Design and undertake analysis of data and statistics across a number of core statistical releases or data sets for a variety of audiences.

Identify trends or unexpected results in core releases and investigate underlying causes.

Provide credible advice on interpreting findings.

Providing quality assurance across a range of statistical products.

The Prices and Deflators team is responsible for producing measures of inflation for households and businesses. This includes the Consumers Price Index and monthly Selected Price indexes.

These roles would suit someone who can bring :

For Insights roles, strong analytical skills with experience in understanding and interpreting data and relevant degrees such as economics, accounting and statistics.

For Design roles, examples of technical leadership, eg leading a technical project or piece of work and relevant degrees such as computer science, statistics, economics.

For both Insights and Design roles :

Familiarity with R, SAS, Power BI and SQL or other statistical packages to produce statistics would be advantageous.

Experience in working to tight deadlines, good time management skills, and ability to adapt and respond to new information.

Great team-working skills, personal resilience and the confidence to create strong working relationships, along with demonstrated customer centricity.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills that can explain complex concepts in plain English.

Knowledge and experience, or desire to learn about Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori, and engagement with Māori.

Have demonstrated, encouraged, or supported diversity and inclusion in or outside of work.

Please highlight in your application any experience or skills you have in the above list.

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.

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