Analytics & Insights Lead Analyst - Te ao Māori

• Lead organisation-wide analytics, evaluation, and evidence practice
• Shape investment and strategic decisions through trusted insights
• Permanent role with flexibility to be based in Wellington or Auckland

Ko wai te Pakihi nei | About the Organisation Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is the national arts development agency, working alongside artists, ringatoi, practitioners and arts organisations across the motu. The organisation is moving into the next phase of a significant change programme, with a new operating model designed to strengthen leadership, connection, investment and impact across the arts and ngā toi. Ko te āhua o te tūranga | About the Role Working within the Insights and Systems team, part of the Business Services pou, you'll provide senior specialist leadership in analytics, research, evaluation, and insight generation. You’ll strengthen analytical practice across Creative New Zealand, ensuring high-impact analysis and reporting are robust, forward-looking, transparent, and culturally grounded. Working closely with leaders and teams across the organisation, you will:

• Lead complex, forward-looking analysis, forecasting, research, and evaluation at programme and organisational strategy levels
• Establish organisation-wide standards and methodologies for rigorous, ethical quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method analytical practice
• Lead impact measurement and evaluation, including the design of frameworks, models, forecasts, and scenario testing
• Provide senior technical advice and assurance on the quality, integrity, and statistical validity of high-impact analysis and reporting
• Translate complex evidence into clear insights that advise and influence senior decision-makers, while building analytical capability across the organisation
• Embed Te Tiriti-informed practice while strengthening capability and relationships

Mōu | About You The successful candidate will bring:

• Extensive senior-level experience leading advanced analytics, research, or evaluation at programme or organisational strategy level
• Demonstrated experience in the public, research, social impact, or not-for-profit sector
• Advanced quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method expertise, including statistical validity, measurement methodologies, forecasting, and impact evaluation
• A strong track record of advising and influencing senior decision-makers through complex analysis and evidence
• Knowledge of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, te ao Māori, Māori data sovereignty, and culturally responsive ways of working
• Experience setting analytical standards, assuring high-impact work, guiding colleagues, and lifting analytical capability across an organisation

Me tono mai inaīanei | Apply Now! Applications close midnight Sunday 8th November 2026  To find out more, please get in touch with Orissa Plimmer on or Luke Spratt on for a confidential kōrero. To apply, you must be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or hold a valid visa with the right to work in Aotearoa. We’ll be reviewing candidates as they come through, so we encourage early applications. We are the landing place where our people can come to rest upon, a safe space. A  place  where  excellence  and  culture  are  encouraged and ultimately recognised. Kia tau ai te mauri tū, te mauri ora ki te katoa.  Nau mai, tau mai! Vitality and well-being for all. Welcome, settle here!