Poutoko Ture Solicitor, Legal Services

2 days ago

Wellington City, New Zealand Te Puni Kōkiri Full time

**Poutoko Ture** | Solicitor
**Te Puni Rangatopu** | Corporate
**Te Puni Kōkiri** | The Ministry of Māori Development

**Location: Te Tari Matua, Pōneke** | National Office, Wellington

Te Puni Kōkiri is the government's principal policy advisor on Māori wellbeing and development. We achieve strategic influence with a focus on providing high quality policy advice and holding other agencies to account for delivering public services to, for, and with Māori. This includes our mandate to promote Māori achievement in education, training, health and economic resource development along with performing our monitoring and mentoring roles.

This solicitor role is a dynamic and challenging one. It is a great opportunity to grow your knowledge of public sector matters and to gain a solid understanding of legal matters relating to the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori Affairs legislation and te ao Māori.

**Te whai wāhitanga | The opportunity**

Based in Te Tari Matua, Pōneke the Solicitor provides timely, accurate high quality, robust advice to our Manager Legal Services as part of a small team of 8 kaimahi. You will be providing legal advice on a wide range of matters including.
- Ministerial powers and responsibilities.
- Legislative compliance.
- The review of legislation impacting Māori.
- Contracts and other legal documentation.
- Law reform initiatives, policy projects and programme initiatives.
- The administration of Māori Trust Boards and other legislation administered by Te Puni Kōkiri.

**Mōu | About you**
- A law degree and are eligible to hold a practicing certificate.
- An understanding of the legal implications of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
- High standards of analytical, written and oral communication.
- Ability to provide accurate and relevant legal advice.
- An understanding of tikanga and te ao Māori.

**Tāu e whai ai | What you will get in return**

Te Puni Kōkiri is a diverse and rewarding working environment full of passionate people focussed on creating solutions that will help our communities. We are guided by our values of te wero, manaakitanga, he toa takitini and ture tangata.

There is more to life than just work and we encourage our staff to maintain the right balance between work and personal pursuits. We recognise that a healthy workforce is a productive one so we're committed to providing opportunities and incentives for our employees to look after themselves, including:

- Optical allowance
- Hauora allowance
- Te Reo Māori proficiency allowance
- Provide enhanced parental leave provisions and childcare allowances.

**Te Puni Kōkiri | Ministry of Māori Development**

Te Puni Kōkiri is committed to our vision of 'Whānau Taurikura' - 'Thriving Whānau'. We consider that when whānau are thriving, so do their communities, hapū, iwi and all of Aotearoa. This underpins everything we do.

Our people are at the heart of achieving this vision and it is our people who contribute to supporting Māori collective success. They do this by creating and maintaining relationships with iwi, hapū and whānau Māori and government at both a local and national level. It is this that enables Māori participation and success as Māori, and it is our people who will create a future where all whānau can thrive.

Ka akiākina koe kia tukuna mai tō tononga i tēnei rangi tonu, kia whakapāngia rānei tētahi Ringa Taritari e kōrero ai mō ngā painga o tēnei whai wāhitanga, me tōna hāngai ki ō whāinga ā-umanga. Nau mai rā ko ngā tononga i te reo Māori, te reo Pākehā, te reorua rānei, ka mutu, e kore tō kōwhiringa reo e whai pānga kino ki tō tononga ahakoa te aha. Ka tirohia ai e mātou ngā tononga katoa, ka mutu, kite ana mātou i te tangata tika rawa atu, ka whakatūngia ko ia.

**_ Please note, our inbox won't be monitored between 20 Hakihea/December and 05 Kohitātea/January._**
- Ka aukati ngā tono hei te Rātapu 12 Kohitātea ā te 11.55pm | Applications close on Sunday 12 January 2025 at 11.55pm._

**Job Details**:

- Reference #
- 13533
- Posted on
- 19 Dec 2024
- Closes on
- 12 Jan 2025 23:55
- Location(s)
- Wellington
- Expertise
- Contracts, Legal
- Job level(s)
- Solicitor
- Work type(s)
- Permanent full-time

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