Te Pātui Team Leader

**Role type**: Permanent Full Time
**Location**: Wellington, Auckland or other region by arrangement
**Salary range**: General Salary Range Band C: $117,035 to $156,888 dependant on skills and experience
Applications from MPI employees with Affected status will be given priority consideration
Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
Te Pātuitanga Ahumoana a Kiwa (Te Pātui) is a programme delivered by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), and funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), which aims to strengthen the capacity of Pacific Island fisheries administrations to manage their fisheries.
You will provide leadership and management to all staff within Te Pātui by ensuring that robust processes for health and safety, performance management, learning and development are effectively implemented. The Team Leader will manage six (6) direct reports - three (3) Fisheries Management Advisors and three (3) Fisheries Compliance Advisers. You will help this team to strengthen the capacity of Pacific Island fisheries administrations to manage their fisheries. This is a unique opportunity to support economic, social and environmental outcomes in the Pacific.
You will feed into strategic meetings including with MFAT and other key Pacific partners, and coordinate and facilitate operational meetings with MPI managers, Te Pātui advisors and the MFAT Contracts Manager.
**To deliver the core duties, you will**:

- Build and maintain relationships with both your team and stakeholders
- Integrate outcomes, objectives, and management strategy across the programme
- Oversee the development and implementation of operational plans, processes and systems

Mōu - About You
You will be working with a diverse range of stakeholders, including government officials, based in a variety of Pacific Island countries. To flourish in this role, you'll have excellent communication skills as well as the ability to understand the cultural context in which you'll be working. You'll have a combination of technical skills, and cultural awareness.
This is a complex, challenging, and rewarding role requiring a unique mix of skills. To be successful in this role you will ideally have:

- Experience leading teams and/or significant projects, along with managing associated health and safety risks.
- A can do attitude with attention to detail and a strong focus on successful delivery of projects and programmes of work
- Significant experience in developing and maintaining positive working relationships with people at all levels in an organisation, both internally and externally.
- Understanding of, and experience operating in, Government processes, including Parliamentary processes

A relevant tertiary qualification in economics, law, fisheries, biological sciences, or resource management would be beneficial.
You're not expected to have all of these skills. But, if you have most of these things, we'd love to hear from you.
About the Team
You'll be well supported as a team leader, reporting to the Manager Highly Migratory & Pacific. Key stakeholders include other inter-governmental agencies in the Pacific such as SPC (Pacific Community) and the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA).
**Find out more about the work we do here**: Te Pātuitanga Ahumoana a Kiwa, Partnerships in Pacific Fisheries
To find out more about Fisheries New Zealand click here
Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
The Ministry for Primary Industries is helping to seize export opportunities for our primary industries, improve sector productivity, ensure the food we produce is safe, increase sustainable resource use, and protect New Zealand from biological risk.
Fisheries New Zealand is a business unit within MPI, focused on managing New Zealand's fisheries resources. We work to ensure that fisheries resources are managed in a way that provides the greatest overall benefit to New Zealanders. Our focus is the sustainability of New Zealand's wild fish stocks, aquaculture operations and broader marine ecosystems, now and in the future.
Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Additional MPI leave days
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
- Reduced premiums for Group Healthcare Schemes

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 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 28 August 2024
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