💼 Full-Time Position

Senior Regulatory Advisor, Finance & Economics – 12 month fixed term

🏢
New Zealand Government
📍 Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand
📍
Location
Wellington, New Zealand
📅
Posted
April 11, 2026
Type
Full-Time
🎯

Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

As owner and operator of the National Grid, our transmission network consists of 170 substations, 25,000 transmission towers and more than 11,000 kilometres of lines across public and privately held land - transporting bulk electricity (up to 220,000 volts) from where it is generated to cities, towns, and some major industrial users. 
As System Operator we operate the wholesale electricity market.  As part of our role, we ensure supply (provided by generators) matches demand (by electricity users). We are also responsible for ensuring New Zealand's electricity system is reliable, competitive, and innovative and we play an integral role in the planning of New Zealand's electricity future.
The energy industry is changing rapidly to support decarbonisation, and Transpower plays a key role to enable this change whilst remaining a fit for future organisation.
About the team
The Regulatory Affairs team provide services which enables Transpower to understand, mee...