Team Leader Forestry Ets Operations

**Role Type**: Permanent full-time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary Band**: $109,926 to $135,000 depending on skills and experience

About the Role│Kōrero mō te tūranga
We have a permanent Team Leader role within Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service at Ministry for Primary Industries. The Forestry Operations Teams look after the day-to-day processing of New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme for Forestry.
This role would suit someone who is comfortable leading a team of experts, while not necessarily being an expert themselves. The role also requires someone to be comfortable operating in a regulatory space.

**Core responsibilities include**:

- Leading a team of analysts and providing operational oversight of forestry participation in the Emissions Trade Scheme and Permanent Forest Sink Initiative.
- Provide leadership and direction for the team, ensuring robust processes are followed and staff have learning and development opportunities
- Establish and maintain successful and productive stakeholder relationships with key parties
- Negotiate complex operational matters and resolve escalated issues
- Leading and contributing to the development, documentation, review and improvement of Emissions Trading Scheme operational processes for staff
- Coordinating the delivery of advice to Managers, Directors and Ministers

About You│Mōu
If you are someone who enjoys tackling challenging problems and working with, and supporting, people - this is a perfect role for you. You need to be someone who can adapt quickly and have a sound decision making framework.

**To be successful in this role you will have**:

- People leadership experience, with the ability to build a strong team culture and get the best out of people.
- Experience in managing a team through change, (both technology change and legislative change ideally).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- A tertiary qualification in science, law, climate change or forestry is ideal, but not essential.
- Ability to read and interpret legislation.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a wide variety of people and work in a collaborative manner to succeed.
- An understanding of the public sector and the machinery of government, including interaction with decision makers and stakeholders would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of the forestry aspects of New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme is valuable but not essential.

Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team
Our team is part of the Forestry & Land Management directorate in Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service, a business unit of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). We are a big collaborative team, that work hard and are committed to the work we do. The team enjoys working together to solve problems, but also have fun together to celebrate our successes.

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
We work at the heart of Aotearoa and are strongly connected to the primary industries we work with and for.

Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Up to three additional (MPI holidays) leave days
- 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, whanau 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 11.59pm on 19 April.

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