Team Leader Animal Welfare and Nait Compliance

6 months ago


Palmerston North, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Role Type**: Permanent Full Time

**Location**: Palmerston North (or lower Central Region)

**Salary Range**: $96,073 - $128,570 dependant on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the Role
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has an exciting leadership opportunity with the chance to coach and lead a team of compliance professionals in a sector crucial to New Zealand's national interests.
Offering the opportunity to strengthen your leadership skills, while still being visible in the field, you'll enjoy the variety and diversity of this role, while building your career and profile in your community.
The Compliance & Response - Directorate administers legislation across sectors including the Animal Welfare Act 1999 and NAIT Act 2012. As Team Leader Animal Welfare and NAIT Compliance (Central South), you will be responsible for 6 to 9 staff (Animal Welfare Inspectors and NAIT Officers).

**Your key responsibilities will be to**:

- Provide operational leadership and coordination of the effective and efficient delivery of animal welfare and NAIT compliance and enforcement services.
- Foster a strong Health and Safety culture within your staff
- Contribute to and support prosecution decision making for breaches of animal welfare, NAIT and other legislation.
- Develop and maintain local sectoral relationships within MPI, industry, interest groups and other agencies.
- Contribute to the development of policy and legislation by providing capability and specialist knowledge.

Mōu - About You

**To be successful in this role you will need to**:

- Be able to support your team by demonstrating a strong work ethic, and technical knowledge of both Animal Welfare and NAIT legislation
- Be responsible for ensuring your staff have the right tools to be able to do their jobs effectively within organisational constraints
- Be able to complete regular staff performance reviews and planning processes
- Work well under pressure and prioritise competing demands
- Be able to produce effective plans, performance measures and reporting frameworks to support the work of your team, the district and wider Ministry
- You will have a previous track record of delivering timely results while maintaining a clear focus on long term and strategic goals

Skills & Experience
- Experience in animal production systems and knowledge of agricultural sectors
- Previous experience in a regulatory enforcement position
- A developed understanding of MPI's role as a regulator and significant experience in managing both internal and external relationships
- Skills in initiating, influencing and managing change with both industry stakeholders and the people you manage
- Experience working in an environment where Health & Safety requirements and policies are a high priority

Qualification
- Tertiary qualifications in relevant disciplines and/ or compliance and enforcement experience is essential
- Management based qualification or relevant experience is desirable.

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
We're passionate about growing prosperity in the sector while ensuring respect for Kaitiaki - guardianship of our natural resources.

Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Up to three additional (MPI holidays) leave days
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation
- Wellness benefit for employees

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working
We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.

Ngā Taki Whakahaumaru - Security checks
Higher level Security Clearance
- preferably a New Zealand citizen who has resided continuously in New Zealand for at least the last ten (10) years, OR
- is a citizen of, and/or has resided continuously in one or more of the following countries for the last ten (10) years: either Australia, Canada, New Zealand, 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-check tool.

Whakamātau Whakapōauau me te Waipiro - Drug and Alcohol Screening
Please note, given this position is safety sensitive the preferred applicant/s for the position will be required to undergo a drug and alcohol pre-employment screening test. Further information on this process can be found on our careers site, here.

Kua rite koe mō tēnei 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, hapū, whānau and hāpori.
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 outsi



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