Analytics and Research in Government
Graduate Programme (Feb 2025)
Wellington
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Opportunity details
- Apprenticeship or Traineeship
- NZD 58,000 - 65,000 / Year
- 5-12 vacancies
- Apply by 6 Aug 2024
- Start date 4 Feb 2025 - 25 Feb 2025
Join Aotearoa’s Analytics & Research in Government Graduate Programme - work with real data and research to make a real difference.
If you are a final-year student or recent graduate with a strong interest in data analysis, research, and evaluation, we want to hear from you! This is a fantastic opportunity to develop insights that will help steer strategic, operational and policy decisions in Aotearoa that will bring real change.
This 12-month programme places graduates within a government agency alongside some of Aotearoa’s leading data analysts - with a tailored professional development programme to hone your strengths and an unparalleled opportunity to contribute to Aotearoa.
The ARG Graduate Programme is open to all students who:
- Have completed/or are soon to complete any bachelor level degree or above
- Are interested in data, analytics and research space
- Want to make a difference in the lives of New Zealander’s
- Have an understanding of/or interest in developing an understanding of programming languages.
Find out more on our website (ilovedata.org.nz)
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- New Zealand Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- Associate Degree or higher
Reviews
Internship project preparing data for submission into NZRIS
I did a single intern project that contributed to wider Ministry goals
Creating an extra tab on an data visualisation app at MBIE.
About the employer
Analytics and Research in Government
4.1
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Government & Public Service
Analytics and Research in Government (ARG) is a multi-agency initiative to build capability in data, analytics and research across Government.
Pros and cons of working at Analytics and Research in Government
Pros
Fantastic team and very meaningful work.
Data team with a tight relationship with policy teams gives me the best of both worlds - influencing public policy and making a difference while working with technologies that interest me. Freedom to do what you want, control your workload, high levels of trust. Good work life balance, work rarely follows me during home time.
A lot of very interesting data (and a lot of it!) which can be used in ways to help ACC clients / other people, relatively sophisticated IT infrastructure and a really good place to learn about enterprise infrastructure in the context of analytics.
Learning about public sector, getting help from people around me
Very supportive manager and ARG rep.
Cons
Laptops are kinda slow at MBIE, as is the onboarding process and dealing with ICT and Datacom. I was given a giant gamer laptop all the bells and whistles - one year into the job and it still somehow grinds to a halt! Outlook, Teams and/or our record management system is almost certain to give me grief on any given day.
Duration of time for getting access.
Drink too much coffee?
Few other interns
The work that I was doing at times got quite repetitive.