Manager Customary Fisheries

Manager Customary Fisheries - Fisheries New Zealand
**Role type**: Permanent
**Location**: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Tauranga
**Salary band**: $128,247 to $173,511 depending on skills and experience
Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the Role
Toitū ngā tini a Tangaroa - ka ora ai te iwi
As part of Fisheries New Zealand's commitment to strengthening our partnership with Māori, a new Fisheries and Aquaculture Treaty Partnerships Directorate has been formed. As Manager Customary Fisheries, you will join the growing Directorate and lead the Customary Fisheries Team to support decision-making through advice related to Customary Fisheries and deliver tangible outcomes. You will be instrumental to the strategic and operational leadership of the Customary Fisheries Team and will lead a team of Relationship Managers responsible for ensuring we continue to build and maintain strong relationships with iwi and hapū for the Crown to effectively deliver its fisheries obligations.

**Your core responsibilities in this role would include**:

- Implementing the Customary Fishing Regulations.
- Developing and maintaining regional Iwi Fisheries Forums and supporting the forums to develop Forum and Iwi Fisheries Plans.
- Providing support for input and participation of tangata whenua into managing fisheries by assisting development of fisheries objectives and ensuring fisheries advice gives regard to kaitiakitanga.
- Modelling collaborative working and fostering a high-performing team environment.
- Ensuring the team and its activities deliver best value for money through astute financial and resource management.
- Collaborating with Fisheries NZ and business partners across MPI to support the delivery of outcomes.

Mōu - About You

**We are looking for someone who**:

- Can build trusted and credible relationships with Māori, sector stakeholders, and partners across Fisheries New Zealand, MPI, other New Zealand Government agencies and service providers.
- Has demonstrated ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships with tangata whenua.
- Understands management policies relating to the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and the Crown's obligations to Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Claims Settlement Act, the Fisheries Act 1996, and other statutes as they relate to fisheries resources.
- Has confidence managing difficult relationships, with sound experience in achieving beneficial outcomes through negotiation and conflict management.
- Has a deep understanding of Te Ao Māori.
- Has strong people management skills and ability to build a collaborative team culture.
- Has a proven track record for driving capability uplift and supporting professional development.
- Is fluent in Te Reo Māori (this is desirable but not essential).

Mō Tātou - About Us
Fisheries New Zealand is a branch within the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). Fisheries NZ's vision is that:

- New Zealand will be the world's most sustainable provider of high-value fisheries and aquaculture products.
- Our fisheries and aquaculture will be innovative and world-leading in environmental performance.
- Our ocean ecosystems will be healthy and abundant, contributing to thriving communities and benefiting the social, economic and cultural wellbeing of all New Zealanders.

Fisheries New Zealand will work dynamically as a steward to achieve this, led by productive partnerships with tangata whenua, effective local engagement, robust science, and innovative
use of data.

Kei te tino whai whakaaro ngā tāngata o Aotearoa ki ā rātau mahinga ika me te taiao moana.

Ko tā Te Tini a Tangaroa, he whakahaere i ngā rawa ika kia tino whai hua ai mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa.

Mā te mahi me mātau ka hoki koe ki te kāinga i runga i te mōhio i whai kiko ō mahi mō te whakahaere o ngā mahi whakahaere i ngā rawa ika o Aotearoa me te taiao moana whānui kia toitū ai.

New Zealanders care deeply about their fisheries and marine environment.

Fisheries New Zealand works to ensure that fisheries resources are managed in a way that provides the greatest overall benefit to New Zealanders.

Working with us means that every day you'll go home knowing you've made a positive contribution to the sustainable management of New Zealand's valuable fisheries resources and their wider marine environment.
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Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Up to three additional (MPI holidays) leave days
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation
- Wellness benefit for employees
- Parental leave ex-gratia payment
- Comprehensive 3-day MPI Induction Programme
- Bi-annual MPI-paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

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Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to Apply

The closing date is Sunday 13 March