Specialist Advisor, Verification Services

**Job Title**: Specialist Advisor - Verification Services

**Role type**: Permanent, full-time

**Location**: Wellington City

**Salary range**: $92,073 to $128,972 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
Verification Services (VS) sits within NZ Food Safety, with a core purpose to deliver independent, cost effective and high-quality verification, certification, inspection, and clearance programmes that ensure all relevant regulatory requirements are met. Our people deliver a world-class, efficient, and cost-effective service to a broad range of animal product industries and sectors and facilitate not only food safety, but biosecurity and market access for animals and animal product exports.
Reporting to the National Manager Technical & Calibration, the purpose of this role is to coordinate and assist in the establishment and management of Verification Services (VS) management work programmes to help ensure that VS delivers on its core activities of verification and certification. To achieve this, the Specialist Advisor will (as required):

- Oversee, monitor, and assess technical work programmes
- Develop and implement quality improvement initiatives

This role is a great opportunity for a Veterinarian who is ready to take the next step in their career or an Advisor with relevant experience looking to develop within a supportive environment.

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
This role will work closely with a team of Specialist Advisors as well as other departments within MPI to provide VS with relevant information on best practice, policies, and procedures. The team is spread across New Zealand and compromises of a mix of veterinary and non-veterinary professionals with experience across multiple disciplines.
This team prides itself in providing a collaborative and respectful environment where they work together across a variety of interesting work programmes.

Mōu - About You
This role would suit someone with a veterinary or food science background who can demonstrate sound judgement and decision-making skills, as well as someone who enjoys progressive thinking and considers the big picture.

**To be successful for this role, you will**:

- Have a registerable veterinary or food science based tertiary qualification
- Experience managing relationships and consulting with an assortment of internal and external stakeholders
- Enjoy working with a team of specialists to ensure best practice is maintained
- Have demonstrated experience providing technical support and expertise

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
MPI's 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. We're also 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
- Annual Wellness payment
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working
MPI is a flexible organization and we are happy to discuss 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 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 Friday 5th May.

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