Adviser Plant Products

4 weeks ago


Wellington City, New Zealand NZ Ministry for Primary Industries Full time

**Adviser Plant Products**

**Role type**: Permanent full-time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary band & range**: F- $74,964 to $99,628 depending on skills and experience

**About the Role - Korero mo te Turanga**

This Adviser role is in the Plant Product Imports team within Biosecurity New Zealand. This role will give you the satisfaction of playing a pivotal role in growing our economy, you will be involved in in providing technical risk analyses to support the development and review of import requirements and standards. You will:

- Be responsible for managing the biosecurity risk to New Zealand for imported fresh fruit and vegetables, cut flowers and other plant products.
- Use your knowledge and/or experience of stakeholder engagement and project management to support consultation on proposed import requirements and standards.

**About You - Mou**

You will bring your horticultural or plant biological sciences degree (or related discipline) or work experience operating in a regulatory environment. You will also be able to demonstrate the following skills, attributes and knowledge:

- Gathering, organising, analysing, summarising and communicating technical information to meet the needs of different audiences
- Managing competing priorities to complete assigned work
- Providing technical information for bilateral discussions with overseas trading partners
- Knowing/understanding crop production systems and how pests are managed in these systems
- Problem solving and a 'can do' attitude
- Ability to build positive relationships and work collaboratively within a team environment

**About the Team** - **Mo to matou Ropu**

The Plant Product Imports team are motivated technical experts who enjoy supporting each other to achieve great outcomes for New Zealand. We balance both the measures needed to ensure biosecurity risks are managed with keeping trade moving for imports of fresh fruit and vegetables. Our work is crucial as it is used to leverage better access for New Zealand primary product exports around the world.

This team is part of the Standards & Import Pathways group and we also work closely with MPI colleagues who work at the border, in the laboratory and those who negotiate market access with overseas markets.

**About MPI - Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua**

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.

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

**Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?**

**We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values, 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 19 March 2025**

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