Senior Adviser Biosecurity Engagement

5 days ago

Upper Hutt, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Role type**: Permanent, Full-Time

**Location**: Auckland/Wellington/Christchurch

**Salary range**: $92,073 to $108,321 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
The Biosecurity Surveillance and Incursion Investigation Group is looking for a Senior Adviser - Biosecurity Engagement with experience in stakeholder engagement/outreach programmes and/or behaviour change initiatives to join our Surveillance Engagement and Systems team. General Surveillance is the ‘eyes and ears' of New Zealand's biosecurity system, and is critical for achieving early notification of suspected new to New Zealand pests and diseases. The earlier that pests and diseases are reported to MPI, the easier it is to do something about it.
In this role you will be
- actively engaging with stakeholders
- building internal and external relationships
- creating/leading innovative pilot activities aimed at improving Biosecurity
- supporting/developing the general surveillance engagement programme

This role can be based in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch.

Mōu - About You
- Someone with a passion to create and implement ideas
- Someone with strong relationship building skills with various stakeholders and networks
- Someone who can maintain positive working relationships through face to face engagement
- Someone who can develop the General Surveillance Engagement Programme
- Experienced in collaborating with and influencing others, including tangata whenua, to achieve results
- A high level of self-motivation and ability to proactively seek opportunities
- Has familiarity with New Zealand's Primary Industries and Biosecurity System

You will be a team player with excellent communication skills, motivation, initiative, and sound judgment with an ability to think outside of the square. You will also have the flexibility to work in an ever-changing environment.
Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
Our Diagnostic and Surveillance Services (DSS) directorate are the guardians of Aotearoa New Zealand's biosecurity. We run a number of targeted and passive biosecurity surveillance programmes at any one time, identifying new pests and diseases that make it past our borders, providing research and analysis on their impact, and supporting eradication where we can. Our surveillance programme aren't just national - we also work with international partners to monitor biosecurity threats.
One of our greatest assets is our people. We've got a team of highly qualified, passionate science professionals who get to work on projects they're interested in. With employees from over 20 different countries, DSS is one of the most diverse, welcoming spaces in MPI.
Then there's our facilities. We've got the highest post-entry quarantine level plant facility in NZ. Our design-award winning Wallaceville biocontainment laboratory is one of the newest, most advanced biocontainment labs in the world. Opened in 2021, it's the most complex building in New Zealand. All our labs are reference labs, so our team works on complex cases, not standard diagnostic lab activities. We have the best, highest qualified people - critical thinkers solving dynamic problems. You'll work on challenging, interesting and unusual cases - often things that are so new to biosecurity that no one else is working on them.

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.

Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Additional MPI leave days
- Study assistance may be available
- Work amongst some of the best scientific minds in the country

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

Ngā Taki Whakahaumaru - Security checks
Low level Security Clearance
- most preferably a NZ citizen, who has resided continuously in NZ for at least the last five (5) years, OR
- is a citizen of, and/or has resided continuously in one or more of the following countries for the last five (5) years: either Australia, Canada, NZ, the United Kingdom (UK) or the United States of America (USA); and has a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the NZ Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) towards a recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at this level.
- click here to find out more about the national security vetting process and access the eligibility self-check tool.

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, 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 abil

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