Adviser Plant Germplasm Imports

5 days ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Job Title**: Adviser Plant Germplasm Imports

**Role type**: 6-Month Fixed Term, Full-time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary range**: $64,331 to $97,056 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
Our advisers contribute to the development, implementation, maintenance and review of import health standards in accordance with international principles.

**In this role, you would have the opportunity to**:

- Assess and make recommendations on equivalence requests for individual consignments.
- Review and analyse the effectiveness of import health standards on import pathways by analysing non-compliance and pest interceptions.
- Review the efficacy of quarantine treatments and evaluate alternative treatments as submitted by industry or overseas organisations for inclusion in these standards.

There is a mix of reactive work, and longer time-frame project work.

Mōu - About You
To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate relevant experience in a similar role, a tertiary qualification in Horticulture or Biological Sciences, previous experience in providing technical information for bilateral discussions and/or an understanding of biological and plant production systems.
Key to your success will be your excellent written and verbal communication and relationship skills. While not essential, the team would value skills/knowledge in any of the following areas: project management, statistics and statistical analysis, plant pathology, nursery production and high throughput sequencing (HTS).

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
Animal and Plant Health covers all the activities that contribute to reducing the likelihood that harmful pests and diseases will arrive at our border. The work we do here ensures the vast majority of biosecurity risk is managed offshore. Producers, exporters, exporting country competent authorities and importers all take action to comply with the requirements contained in our import health standards (IHSs) and Craft Risk Management Standards. These requirements, and the actions to verify compliance at the border, work together to provide New Zealand with an appropriate level of protection and reduce biosecurity risk to an acceptable level.

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
Our role includes seizing export opportunities for our food and fibre sector, improving sector productivity, ensuring the food we produce is safe, increasing sustainable resource use, and protecting New Zealand from biological risk.

Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Annual Wellness payment
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working
We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.

Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.
In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values, your whakapapa; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.
Applications close at midnight on Tuesday 4th July.
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