National Laboratory Manager: Nfsc

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.

National Laboratory Manager - National Fingerprint Service Centre, it starts with you.
- Based at the Upper North Island Forensic Fingerprint Services, Piki Ki Te Ao, Auckland.
- Band J
- Permanent
- JR 4176221

About the role

This role is integral in providing a national level supervision for the NZ Police Forensic laboratories and ensuring quality Forensic Service Delivery back to the organisation, providing governance and oversight to the National Fingerprint Service Centre (NFPSC) laboratories to support NZ Police forensics and our partners.

This exciting opportunity will allow you to look after our people by guiding and maintaining the wider organisational needs of our forensic laboratories along with building, maintaining and managing highly cohesive relationships, both internally and externally.

By having relevant forensic lab experience will enable you to provide guidance and advise on laboratory policy practise and procedures within the forensic workgroups.

You will contribute to NFPSC laboratory strategic decisions, managing risk and deployment of resources. Keeping our business current by proactively researching, sourcing, and delivering new capabilities. Ensuring a sound knowledge and understanding of the specialist equipment used, driving the implementation and validation of these capabilities (equipment, techniques, technologies).

You will be the driving force for legislative compliance of police forensic laboratories, ensuring the workgroup are in accordance with the current policies and standards along with being responsible for health and safety monitoring of our people. To do this effectively this role will cover governance, auditing and management of the relevant national policies and procedures.

This role will suit a leader with a passion for enabling exceptional service and creating a space for your team to thrive. The National Laboratory Manager will be someone with a governance focus, solid foundation of operational experience and can provide exceptional support for our districts leading to synergy between our partner workgroups.

What you’ll bring

Being part of the Police whānau is about being our best to ensure our communities are safe and feel safe. Our Core Competencies provide a shared understanding of the behaviours, leadership and technical competence required for success at each level of Police. Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Natural ability to build strong working relationships internally and externally
- Time as a Leader who coaches and mentors their staff, building trust and confidence within their team and experience in implementing change.
- Having an intimate knowledge of Policing from a laboratory background with experience in Police laboratory processes, systems and legislative landscape of national health and safety laboratory requirements.
- Well-practiced in-service delivery within a large organisation and the ability to navigate a multifaceted environment leading technical specialist.
- Finely tuned ability to strategically develop resources, with project management skills, including financial and communication management.

This role is set at Leader/Manager level, this means your key purpose is “to lead tactics for Our Business and enable people to deliver them”.

We will ask you questions based on “How we will deliver Our Business - Core Competencies” and the appropriate role level, i.e. Individual Contributor.

These questions will be unique and specific to the role, focusing on the aspects the hiring manager believes are most important for that position at the time.

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About us

Our mission is to prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing. Our vision is to be the safest country. Our purpose is to ensure everybody can be safe and feel safe.

Special requirements

Must be qualified within the New Zealand Police Fingerprint Career Structure as a Senior Fingerprint Officer OR demonstrate suitable laboratory skills, knowledge and experience, particularly in a forensic or chemical laboratory OR have the equivalent l