Manager - Environmental Monitoring

**Kaunihera Taiao ki Waitaha** **About Environment Canterbury**

Waitaha - our Canterbury region - is like no other and we are proud to call it home. We are privileged to be working with Ngā Papatipu Rūnanga, stakeholders, and our wider community to protect our environment, including water, land, and air through regulation and planning. As a Regional Council we're responsible for flood protection, public transport, civil defence, and more.

Together we're taking action to shape a thriving and resilient Canterbury, now and for future generations. Toitū te marae o Tāne, toitū te marae o Tangaroa, toitū te tangata, If the land is well and the sea is well, the people will thrive.

**Kōrero mō te Tūranga** **| About the Role**

The work of the Science Group at Environment Canterbury consists of providing environmental monitoring, data, research and advice to internal and external customers.

Te Science Group plays a key role in informing decision making across most of the organisation including informing organisational strategic intent, processing of consents, our approach to compliance, responding to incidents, the development of plans, and measuring our progress towards regional and national environmental targets.

Reporting to the General Manager - Environmental Monitoring and Data, this newly created role will plan, design, and lead the delivery of environmental monitoring that enables the organisation to deliver to its core services. You’ll monitor programmes aligned with each other to provide an integrated view of the environment, and ensure programmes are efficiently run and cost effective.

As a Senior Leader you’ll contribute strong technical leadership capability, strategic thinking, coupled with a governance mindset. Equally key is the ability to build trusted and enduring partnerships and lead and develop your team, balancing the fiscal responsibility and providing advice to council and Executive Leadership Team.

You’ll develop a team culture and contribute to the ongoing development of your people | kaimahi, whilst creating a clear vision, inspiring innovation and new ways of working including connecting with our Treaty partner, Ngāi Tahu, to ensure understanding of Ngāi Tahu aspirations and priorities to inform work programme development and prioritisation.

Based in Christchurch, the indicative annual salary range is $144,000-$167,000 for a 40-hour week, Monday to Friday inclusive.

**Mōu** **About You**

You’ll bring skills and capability in the following:

- Bachelor of Science degree (or higher) in a discipline that includes a strong component of environmental monitoring
- Not less than ten years practical experience including management of environmental monitoring teams/projects
- Excellent knowledge of the work involved in environmental monitoring used in resource management
- Experience leading teams and projects involving environmental monitoring
- Excellent communication skills (written and oral)
- Proven ability to establish stakeholder relationships and influence leaders at a senior level across local government, industry, consultants, and communities
- Financial management expertise, including risk management, budgets, fiscal plans and forecasting skills
- Proven ability to develop and nurture strong relationships with staff/ kaimahi, stakeholders and tangata whenua, and influence senior leaders across the organisation
- Understand the health and safety and risk obligations that rest with this position and have experience in maintaining a safety focused culture where health, safety and wellbeing are at the heart of decision making
- Experience leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing people leaders, supporting them to create a high performing and engaged workforce
- Experience in leading changing, inspiring innovative thinking, influencing behaviour change, and adoption of new ways of working

**Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Kaunihera Taiao ki Waitaha** | **Working at Environment Canterbury**

Our values underpin everything we do. We understand and embrace a diverse workforce; this diversity will enable us to better serve our people, our community, and our greatest taonga, the environment. We value everyone’s contribution, diverse thinking, and skills.

We're on a journey to become a treaty partner of excellence, including incorporating te ao Māori into our work. We offer supportive opportunities to develop capability in this area and encourage our people to use kaupapa Māori, mātauranga Māori, and te reo Māori in our daily work. We welcome you with an open heart & mind, wherever you are on your personal te ao Māori journey.

For a confidential chat about this role, please contact Davina McNickel on +64 275 497 718

Me mahi tahi tātou - Together we can