Investigator/senior Investigator

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

**Location**: Auckland

**Salary Band**: $80,331 to $107,681 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
As a multi-warranted Investigator, you will plan, lead, and undertake criminal investigations and ensure that MPI effectively targets offences across all sectors. You will be meticulous in all aspects of your investigation and file preparation.

**In this role, you would have the opportunity to**:

- Work in a strong team environment and collaborate with other investigators to prepare, and then present, robust prosecution cases
- Perform investigative actions where offences are alleged, including interviews and evidence collection for the purpose of criminal prosecution
- Deliver outcomes in accordance with the Operations Branch operating framework, and with the VADE compliance model
- Build and maintain strong professional relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Maintain a strict sense of professional ethics, maintain confidentiality and privacy, and abide by MPI's Code of Conduct

Mōu - About You

**In addition to the above, we are seeking an applicant with**:

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate broadly across a range of stakeholders
- The ability to digest large amounts of information and pull out the relevant and important elements to support the case you've built
- An inquisitive nature, with the ability to interview individuals, collect evidence, and deploy a range of modern investigative techniques
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise your time effectively
- Experience in Police Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB), or equivalent fraud investigative skills
- Familiarity with search and surveillance legislation, criminal procedure, evidence law, and criminal disclosure

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
The Investigations team sits within the Investigations and Compliance Support directorate. Our team's mandate spans a broad range of Acts that MPI administer. We take responsibility for Acts without a dedicated compliance group, and we accept referrals from other groups and co-regulators. We also assist officers and co-regulators with their investigations. We have a varied workload as we investigate matters across many of the Acts MPI administer

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.
To find out more about the Ministry and what we do please click here.

Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- 3 x 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.

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 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 11.59pm on 15 June.

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