Principal Business Partner

Join us in Crown Property working in a diverse portfolio, as a Property Management expert,
- Flexible working environment

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role
This is a newly created position in a high performing team that spans the entire Crown Property portfolio and our precious Aotearoa, so there is no shortage on diversity of interesting work.
This is an opportunity to leverage off your previous experience working at a principal level, drawing on your strong relationship building skills to lead and advise on the delivery and understanding of our work.

**To be successful in this role, you will need to have**:

- Experience in property management, asset management, leasing, treaty settlement and the ability to influence the strategy and priorities with credibility and impact.
- Confident providing highly technical property advice working across a diverse portfolio.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Māori world view, and our obligations as a Treaty Partner, to influence the organisation's approach to partnering and domain advice,
- A curiosity and openness to learning and exploring new ideas, information, risks, and opportunities to inform your thinking and decision making.
- Strong communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to engage and build trusted relationships with leaders and across the public sector to help shape the authorising environment and influence new initiatives, changes, or issues,

**See more on the breadth of the portfolio here**: Whakahaerenga whenua Karauna | Crown property management

**He pūkenga tou - Skills & Experience**:

- Significant experience in all facets of property management, either in built structure or land use management,
- Tertiary qualification in property, law or equivalence preferred
- Understanding of residential tenancies Act, licence to occupy, and leases,
- Knowledge of strategic asset management planning as well as Strategic Lease Management and making these operational,
- Working knowledge of seismic, culture and heritage, health & safety and other industry related legislation,
- Ability to influence across a broad range of assets,
- Prioritise and project manage initiatives to empower active asset management across staff,
- Demonstrated understanding and experience of an all of government focus,
- Business and financial acumen to understand how the business works and evaluation of the impact of proposed actions on the financial and resourcing health of the organisation,
- Provide a sense of vision and leadership that empowers and motivates people to deliver high-quality work. Including creating supporting documents, property manuals, and templates.

The expected appointing range for this role is $120,000 - $145,000 per annum.

Ngā mea e tukuna ana e tātau - What we offer our employees
- Interesting work which impacts Aotearoa as we care for whenua, moana and arawai
- Eye & ear care reimbursements
- Annual Flu Vaccinations
- Reduced Health Insurance Premiums
- Diverse groups and networks
- If eligible for paid parental leave, you will be entitled to a top up payment for the first 18 weeks of the 26 weeks
- A minimum of four weeks and three days annual leave

Te Tākinatanga - Our Story
Toitū Te Whenua plays a vital role in understanding, developing and caring for New Zealand's whenua, moana and arawai (land, sea and waterways). Whether you're developing our products and services to support our customers, managing the Crown estate, engaging with our iwi partners, or helping us be an effective regulator, your contribution can make a difference. Our mahi helps New Zealanders have confidence that the development of our land, communities and country is being planned from an informed and expert position that balances environmental, social, cultural and economic considerations. Now and for future generations.

Our Kia Toipoto Intentions - Public Service Gender, Māori, Pacific and Ethnic Pay Gap Action Plan

Tono mai - How to Apply

At Toitū Te Whenua we design our roles around shared capabilities (rather than focusing on tasks) and so you'll notice our role profiles are broad. This allows us to be responsive to our customers and to strengthen the connections across our organisation. It also gives us the flexibility to provide wider opportunities to our people, to further their careers. The broad-based role for this position is ‘Business Partner - Level Toru/3'.