Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake wants to be representative of all the communities we serve and see diversity at all levels of the organisation. Diverse teams bring different perspectives together, stimulating creativity and innovation, which lead to new ideas and solutions. Embracing diversity in our workplace means our people understand the needs of the diverse communities we serve, which informs the way we design and deliver our policies, products, functions and services.
We aim to improve diverse representation across all levels of our workforce to reflect New Zealand’s population.
There are 3 key areas of our work programme that support a positive shift in representation over time.
- Career development – supporting our people to build fulfilling careers at our organisation. This will help people develop capability and successfully move to senior roles and roles of influence.
- Talent attraction – thinking about how we attract diverse candidates to want to apply to work at our organisation, at all levels.
- Talent selection – supporting candidates to do their best, and also supporting leaders to make non-biased decisions and engage with candidates with diverse values and worldviews.
The representation areas where we have a clear opportunity to create positive change are:
- representation in senior positions across all non-European ethnicities - both people and technical leadership
- representation of women in non-people leader roles with pay between $150,000 and $210,000 - these are generally higher-level technical roles
- increased representation of Pacific peoples across all levels of people leadership
- increased representation of Pacific peoples across higher level/higher paid technical roles
- increased Asian representation across all levels of leadership
- increased representation of disabled people and members of LGBTTQIA+ (rainbow) communities across all roles.
For Māori representation goals – please refer to our Māori representation roadmap.