Senior Partnerships Advisor

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Senior Partnerships Advisors

**Location**: Police National Headquarters, Wellington

**Starting Salary**: $102,178 - $123,297

**Reporting to**: Partnership Manager
Multiple Positions Available
Permanent, Full-time
- Focus on firearms communities
- Flexible Working Options
- Great Career Development

Exciting opportunity for a well-connected, strategic, and collaborative individual who already has extensive knowledge working within diverse communities and has a working knowledge of the NZ firearms community as a whole.

Mō te tūnga | About the role

The purpose of Arms Safety and Control business unit is to enable New Zealand to be a world leader in arms safety through an effective regulatory and administrative approach to the Arms Act and Arms Regulations. Established to lead, operate, and develop investment in modernisation of the firearms system, which will result in a more efficient and effective risk-based licensing system, introduction of comprehensive performance indicators, and shall improve public confidence in the firearms licensing system. The modernisation of the Arms Regulatory System will take every opportunity to prevent harm through transparent, high quality, consistent, legislatively correct, and effective regulatory activities, administration, education, and promotion of compliance with the provisions of the Arms Act and Arms Regulations.

The Regulator will earn trust and confidence by working together in partnership with other policing groups, iwi, the firearms community, wider New Zealand public and other agencies and organisations to achieve collective impact.

The Senior Partnership Advisor will build and maintain effective relationships with managers, districts, and community leaders nationally, to determine what their current needs and concerns are from a firearms community perspective. A primary focus of these positions will centre on engagement within the firearms community, and as such a working knowledge of this community, and or a current firearms licence would be highly advantageous.

Cultural competence, an understanding of Te Ao Māori and Mātauranga Māori, and ability to operate effectively in a Māori cultural setting are all requirements of these newly created positions. A critical element of this role will be to build trust and confidence between the community and the Arms Regulator, which will see you working collaboratively role modelling working in partnership with and being receptive toa broad range of ethnic groups across New Zealand.

**Takohanga Matua | Key Accountabilities**:

- Maintain effective working relationships with Partnership Managers and required staff within Districts in order to foster a commitment to delivering on the Regulators strategies and initiatives and to establish an effective and consistent approach to engaging with community groups
- Contribute to the development of the Regulators strategies and initiatives by developing a comprehensive understanding of the needs of the various communities within your portfolio.
- Work closing with Partnership Managers, Districts, and community leaders to identify and understand current and emerging issues and trends that have implications for how the Regulator responds, and for future strategies, policies, and initiatives.
- Coach and mentor staff as required in understanding and dealing with complex cultural issues and responding to Māori, Pacific, or Ethnic and other community issues and needs.
- Championing an approach to service delivery that recognises the needs to be responsive to the unique needs of firearms holders within Māori, Pacific and Ethnic communities.

**Qualifications / Requirements**:

- A postgraduate qualification is advantageous, this however may be offset by comparable and extensive skills knowledge and experience
- Applicants are required to be New Zealand Permanent Residents

**Pre-Employment Checks**:

- A standard vetting check is required.

**Experience is to include**:

- Experience co-designing and delivering innovative programmes and interventions with diverse communities and groups and identifying valuable policy, research and implementation insights.
- Experience gathering information on various community group issues and opportunities and using this to inform policy advice, operational practices and enhance engagement practices, and influence decision making.
- Proven experience in the supporting the development and leading the implem