Regional Manager Forestry

**Description**:

- “Transforming lives, every learner, every time”_
**World-class skills for industry**

The Cz way: Explore ideas: _embrace the new_, Team up: _unite and share_, Make it happen: _own the outcome_
**Regional Manager - Forestry

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Te āhua o Te Tūrunga - The nature of the position_**

Reporting to the National Manager Forestry, this role will promote, support, engage and deliver training solutions across the forestry sector within your region. You will also develop and lead a high performing team, coaching and developing them to be the ‘Trusted Advisor’ for our learners and customers and embedding ‘gold class’ operational standards, while establishing and maintaining key stakeholder relationships within your region.

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Ngā tino Pūkenga/Whēako - Essential skills/experiences for the role_**
- Experience in managing and leading people
- Experience in complex operations
- Understanding of Tertiary Education and Training Sector would be an advantage
- Knowledge of the forestry industry being advantageous
- Strong passion and experience for leading and developing teams; proven strength as a motivational team-builder; a developer of people, coach and mentor
- Excellent relationship building/stakeholder engagement skills
- Highly motivated and highly organized and able to juggle competing priorities
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to extract meaning from numbers and data to present analysis clearly and concisely to people with widely varying degrees of financial knowledge
- Excellence in operational execution
- Ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations
- Demonstrated experience in implementing and leading complex change
**Ko wai mātou? Who are we?**
**Competenz** helps Kiwis build skills, careers and businesses.

At Competenz, we work with over 3,500 companies and 20,000+ learners to deliver education across 36 industries around New Zealand. We build skills, careers, and businesses in Aotearoa through learning, most of which takes place on-the-job.

We partner with employers, apprentices, schools, training providers, and assessors across the country to help New Zealanders. We are geographically spread across New Zealand, and our main support office is centrally located at Newmarket, Auckland.

Competenz is a business division within Work Based Learning Limited, a subsidiary of Te Pūkenga (New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology). Te Pūkenga is a new, national tertiary education provider that delivers all classroom, digital, and work-based learning.

Here at Competenz, we are on a journey to becoming a bicultural workplace and honouring Te Tiriti in all our customs and practices. We are looking for people to support and engage with us on this journey.

**_Why work for us?_**
**If you are looking for an interesting and varied role within a highly focused and efficient team, this is the ideal job for you.**
- Competitive remuneration
- Carpark
- Flexible working arrangements
- Wellness programme, including flu vaccinations, discounts with Southern Cross and Lumino dentists
- Be part of a great team
- Great work/life balance
- Extra-long, long weekends - we finish midday on day before long weekends
**Te Tono - How to apply