Description
Type:Permanent
Hours:Full time
Location: Wellington
Business Group: Regulatory Services
Branch:Regulatory and Identity Services
Salary: $99,025 - $123,231
We're building something new for New Zealand: a regulatory system for online gambling. This is your opportunity to bring your skills and experience to an exciting project that is establishing how a currently-unregulated industry will be regulated in New Zealand.
As a Senior Operational Policy Analyst in our Operational Design team, you'll help turn policy into practice
- developing the operational policy, systems and processes, and compliance practices that will bring new legislation and regulations to life.
What you'll do:
You'll be part of a team that is:
- Designing and delivering key regulatory processes, including a licensing system and auction.
- Developing and implementing a compliance model to monitor and enforce the new regime.
- Developing and implementing regulatory functions that support channelisation of consumers.
- Work closely with policy, legal, and technical experts in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
What we're looking for:
- Doers with a strong knowledge of regulatory theory and practice.
- Practical experience developing and delivering operational policy, processes, guidance and other work tools in a regulatory context.
- Adaptive problem-solvers who thrive in ambiguity and can work at pace in a collaborative programme environment.
- Hands-on experience implementing change and/or implementing new organisational functions or services in complex environments.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.
Why join us?
- Be part of a pioneering initiative-this hasn't been done in New Zealand before.
- Work with a passionate, multi-disciplinary team shaping a new regulatory landscape.
- Make a real difference by setting the new regulator up to succeed.
Applications close:5pm, Wednesday, 11 February 2026.
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