Team Manager Pest Management Aquatic

**Job Title**: Team Manager, Pest Management Aquatic
**Role type**: Full Time Permanent
**Location**: Wellington
**Salary range C**: $117,035 to $156,888 depending on skills and experience
Applications from MPI employees with Affected status will be given priority consideration.
Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
As the Team Manager you are accountable for initiatives to reduce the spread and impact of established pests of national significance and supporting the delivery of the Director-General's pest management leadership obligations.
You will be leading the delivery of pest management and pathway management programmes and long-term responses to eradicate established pests, and supporting the development of pest management system policies, regulations, and system improvement initiatives. The immediate focus for this role is the establishment of a long-term management programme for the freshwater gold clam Corbicula fluminea.
**Some of your key priorities will be to**:

- Manage the team's work plan, delivering to objectives within specified time and budget
- Manage the professional development of the team, finding opportunities for capability building
- Plan, lead, and deliver specific projects using foundations and frameworks that are in place across MPI, including programme and project management methodologies, and systems for the effective management of contracts and budgets
- Identify and assess programme or other risks and determine appropriate mitigations and management interventions, including the effective management of Health and Safety risks associated with operational or other activity
- Work closely with regional councils, iwi, and other stakeholders to achieve programme objectives
- Support the Manager Pest Management Programmes by providing information, analysis, and advice, and undertake complex tasks that may require in-depth analysis and working across multiple teams
- Respond to public inquiries and draft Ministerial advice and correspondence

You will need a credit check to proceed in this role.
Mōu - About You
You'll likely be working in the Biosecurity space or have a passion in this area. You have likely supported initiatives led by other agencies or organisations ensuring alignment with MPI and pest management system strategies and work programmes. You love to work collaboratively with internal and external.
Relationship building and stakeholder management is in your daily repertoire. You love to work collaboratively and deliver on time with the help of those around you.
Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
This newly established team is focussed on the establishment and delivery of programmes to manage or eliminate invasive aquatic pests. This team consists of seven Senior Advisers with a range of skills and experience working in freshwater and marine biosecurity. The team works on both induvial organisms, and programmes of work to address pathway management and influence behaviour change.
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
- Ability to purchase extra annual leave
- Annual Wellness payment
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

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 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 28 August 2024.
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