Principal Advisor

1 week ago

Wellington City, New Zealand NZ Ministry for Primary Industries Full time

**Job Title**:Principal Adviser

**Role type**: Full time permanent

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary band GSR C**: $117,035 - $150,657 depending on skills and experience

**About the Role - Korero mo te Turanga**

Are you ready to step into a leadership position to help prepare New Zealand to respond against high priority biosecurity incursions? The role will require you to work with, lead, enable and guide a wide range of stakeholders, both within MPI and externally, to take a systemic approach to preparing for, and tackling biosecurity threats.

This will be perfect for you if you love variety, a fast-paced and dynamic working environment and you take satisfaction working on complex topics that people care about and are important to protecting the prosperity of New Zealand.

You will use your great time management skills, policy tools and your knowledge of the machinery of government to lead critical pieces of work for the benefit of New Zealand's Biosecurity System.

**About You - Mou**

You are savvy, can navigate through complex systems, have policy experience, or equivalent thereof, knowledge around the machinery of government, and/or experience leading pieces of work that are involve multiple stakeholders and are complex.

You ideally will have:

- Working knowledge of the different components of the machinery of government
- Strong problem-solving and time management skills
- Policy experience and be comfortable bridging the gap between high level strategic thinking and operational planning
- The ability to engage with people to work out a way forward, identify priority issues, flag risks, and work independently

You don't need a technical background in biosecurity or science, but some working knowledge of the Biosecurity System would be an advantage.

**About the Team** - **Mo to matou Ropu**

You will join a small but high-profile team based in Wellington within Biosecurity New Zealand. You will be given visibility, raising your profile with Senior Leadership, and the ability to try new things alongside a supportive manager with strong ethics on work life balance.

**About MPI - Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua**

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.

**Benefits of working at MPI - Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua**
- Additional MPI leave days
- Annual Wellness payment
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

**Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake?**

We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.

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 Sunday 29**th** June 2025**

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