Lead Engagement Adviser

5 months ago

Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Job Title**: Lead Engagement Adviser

**Role Type**: Permanent Full Time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary Band**: $113,626 to $152,318 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
The Ministry for Primary Industries are currently recruiting for a Lead Engagement Adviser to join our Strategy, Enablement, and Māori Partnership directorate as part of our wider Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service business unit based in Wellington.

Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa
Let us keep close together, not wide apart

Te Uru Rākau recognises the importance of keeping connected, of maintaining relationships and dialogue so we can keep moving forward together.

As Lead Engagement Adviser, you will be responsible for building and maintaining regional relationships and engagement with tāngata whenua and iwi, to ensure te ao Māori perspectives at all levels of our work. You will also contribute to the development of work programmes and provide support for Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service to contribute to Māori economic and social development through forestry.

**Accountabilities of the position**:

- Lead regional engagement with Māori and ensure strong, constructive relationships are developed and maintained
- Identify opportunities and challenges for contribution to Māori economic and social development through forestry
- Build and maintain trusted, effective, and credible relationships with Treaty Partners, tangata whenua, and Māori forestry stakeholders
- Support and develop advice, programmes, and other work streams related to Maori interests in forestry
- Be the regional connection to activities across MPI's integrated advisory services
- Contribute to development and implementation of strategies, policies, processes, and operations to support and enable delivery of MPI's obligations and strategic outcomes to Māori
- Ensure regional knowledge of Treaty settlements and partnership agreements, tikanga and other protocols to provide fit-for-purpose analysis and advice on forestry
- Support development of Māori-Crown partnership capability and lift engagement capability within Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service
- Build and embed knowledge of the principles of the Treaty within Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service

Mōu - About You
You have significant experience in a cultural advisory role within a large and complex environment.

You have expert knowledge and understanding of Te Ao Māori worldview, Tikanga Māori, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and Government obligations.

You are an excellent relationship builder and stakeholder engagement manager, with the ability to build effective networks both internally and experience with relevant experience as a people leader in a related working environment and have knowledge of strategic and business planning processes.

You have experience in developing and providing advice to a range of audiences at all levels, strong negotiation, and communication abilities, and understand legislation, the Crown's obligations to Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi, and other statutes as they relate to natural resources.

This position requires relationship building in the upper South Island, Wellington, Kapiti, Manawatu, Taranaki and Wairarapa regions, so a full driver's license is required for the regular travel.

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
Be part of the Strategy, Enablement, and Māori Partnership directorate within Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service. Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service is a branded business unit within the Ministry for Primary Industries and is leading the Government's renewed focus on forestry, one of our country's most successful primary industries.

You'll be joining a dynamic and diverse team who all share a common goal of improving the individual, social and cultural, environmental, and economic outcomes for New Zealand.

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
- Additional MPI leave days
- Ability to purchase extra annual leave
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

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

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 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 30 August 20

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