Team Leader Biosecurity Intelligence

2 weeks ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Team Leader Biosecurity Intelligence**

**Role type**: Permanent full-time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary band & range**: D - $98,995 to $132,427 depending on skills and experience

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**Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role**

The Team Leader Biosecurity Intelligence is part of the Biosecurity Intelligence, Systems and Response directorate. Your team will work together with the wider Intelligence & Information Group to support the development and dissemination of strategic and operational intelligence products for decision makers across the breadth of the MPI's work: biosecurity, import pathways, the food system, trade, animal welfare and fisheries.

As the Team Leader, you will be:

- Leading and managing staff to ensure team engagement, provide clear direction and expectations, performance management and opportunities for learning and development.
- Collaborating to design and implement intelligence methodologies and processes that deliver timely biosecurity threat intelligence.
- Engaging and building relationships across MPI, wider government, industry and academia to support the ongoing production of high-quality biosecurity intelligence.

**Mōu - About You**

If you are innovative, creative, comfortable with ambiguity, appreciative of a positive and supportive working culture, and enjoy pushing doctrinal boundaries, then come and join one of the most exciting and forward-thinking teams within MPI.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- Experience managing analytical staff
- Experience in developing and managing positive relationships with internal and external partners and stakeholders
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency environments with a proven track record of contributing to high quality outcomes for decision makers
- Awareness of the Treaty of Waitangi and its principles, and a growing understanding of its relevance to New Zealand and to MPI

**Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team**

The Intelligence and Information Group collects global reporting, science, and data to produce actionable strategic and operational intelligence for busy decision makers across MPI and the wider national security and hazard risk systems.

The Biosecurity Intelligence team come from a variety of backgrounds and work collaboratively to fuse their collective understanding of the sciences, international relations, and economics with intelligence frameworks and methodologies, to deliver robust intelligence assessments. You will lead the team of 7 Intelligence Analysts based in Wellington and Christchurch.

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**Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI**

Our role includes seizing export opportunities for our food and fibre sector, improving sector productivity, ensuring the food we produce is safe, increasing sustainable resource use, and protecting New Zealand from biological risk.

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**Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI**
- Additional MPI leave days
- Annual Wellness payment
- Reduced premiums for Group Healthcare Schemes
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

**Ngā Taki Whakahaumaru - Security checks**
**Higher level Security Clearance**
- most preferably a NZ citizen who has **resided continuously in NZ** for at least the last **fifteen **(**15) years**, OR
- is a citizen of, **and/or has resided continuously** in one or more of the following countries for the last **fifteen (15) years**: either Australia, Canada, NZ, UK or the USA; **and** has a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the NZSIS towards a recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at a higher level.
- click here to find out more about the national security vetting process and access the eligibility self-checktool.

**Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?**
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We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whanau and hāpori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values, your whakapapa; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

**Applications close at midnight on** Sunday 3 November 2024.**

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