What Could You Be Doing?
[ Last Updated 30 April 2007 ]
If you're successful in our graduate recruitment programme your new job will depend on your preferences, skills and qualifications and where we have staffing needs.
Policy Analysts at MED work on issues that effect New Zealand and all New Zealanders. Their work involves addressing issues and needs of the day through consultation, research, monitoring, analysing options, negotiating, and discussing with key players within and outside of government.
Policy Analysts draft speeches, recommendations and briefing notes, address the questions and concerns of the public, and provide written and oral advice to Ministers and the Government.
It's stimulating and challenging work, requiring strong communication skills, and the ability to think critically, analytically, laterally and creatively. Policy analysis at MED gives the opportunity to be involved in a dynamic environment that works to ensure New Zealand is one of the best countries in the world to do business, and to make a real difference in the country’s economic performance.
You could be:
- involved in developing and implementing some key economic initiatives aligned to the Government's economic transformation objectives;
- working closely with local government, business, iwi, consumers, and central government;
- helping develop and implement the policy and legal framework that will see New Zealand flourish now and into the future;
- working on New Zealand's tourism and trade strategies;
- working on major regulation issues such as those in the telecommunications and electricity industries;
- working in our Corporate Services area, for example our Legal Services team;
- working in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs on policies related to New Zealand consumers.
Beth Goodwin, Policy Advisor
"My current work is focussed on international aspects of intellectual property. I work closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to brief New Zealand officials participating in World Trade Organisation negotiations on New Zealand's position regarding intellectual property. We also work to ensure New Zealand's trade and economic interests and not prejudiced by policy developments in important export markets. A real work highlight for me so far has been travelling to Paris as part of New Zealand's delegation to negotiate a proposed Anti-Counterfeiting treaty. I've also given several presentations to law firms and industry groups about the Ministry's role in negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting treaty."
To find out more about the type of work we do, check out our Graduate Profiles to see what recent graduates have been up to.
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