Pest Animals Lead

2 weeks ago

Hamilton, New Zealand Waikato Regional Council Full time

**About the role**:
**About you**:

- Are you a self-starting, outgoing personality who enjoys forging positive relationships?
- Do you have a close affinity with or are able to relate to the Waikato’s rural communities?
- Do you have a close affinity with or are able to relate to the Waikato’s rural communities?
- Are you a passionate about enhancing New Zealand’s unique biodiversity values, and are you keen to implement Biosecurity programmes to protect and enhance biodiversity, catchment, and production values?

If you answered “yes” to the above, then it is likely Waikato Regional Council’s Biosecurity Pest Animal Team is the right place for you to showcase your talents

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- A tertiary qualification or bachelor’s degree in applied science or biology (conservation based) and/or equivalent experience in a related field of work.
- 5+ years’ experience in rural related field (e.g., land management, conservation, biosecurity, pest control, farm advisory)

**You will need**:

- An understanding of ecological processes and pest management technologies
- Well-developed project management skills
- Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
- Operational and tactical thinking skills
- Proven success at building relationships and resolving issues with internal and external stakeholders
- Broad general management skills including people leadership, business acumen and positive business achievements and financial management
- The ability to manage and deliver in an environment that could be high pressure and rapidly changing

**About Waikato Regional Council**:
We want more good people to come and do great things with us.

We love where we live. That’s why we work so hard to look after our region and the people who live and work in the Waikato region.

Relationships sit at the heart of everything we do, and all staff have an important role to play in the delivery of exceptional customer service.

Our work is as diverse as the region we care for; from the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula to the slopes of Ruapehu. We’ve got ambitious goals and there are some tricky issues, and that’s what makes it so interesting.

Looking for flexible ways of working options, at Waikato Regional Council we are committed to working more creatively to ‘get work done’ in a way that is of mutual benefit to you, the organisation and our communities.

At Waikato Regional Council, we offer flexible ways of working, generous leave entitlements, and an extensive array of personal and professional development opportunities. We are also committed to growing our constructive culture, with an active social club, dedicated rewards & recognition programme, and focus on wellbeing.

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