Senior Adviser/principal Adviser

2 weeks ago

Wellington City, New Zealand NZ Ministry for Primary Industries Full time

**Job Title**:Principal Adviser or Senior Adviser

**Role type**: Fixed Term, full time until 19 December 2025

**Location**: Wellington ideally, or other main centre

**General Salary Range**

**Principal Adviser - General Salary Range Band C**: $117,035 to $156,888 depending on skills and experience

**Senior Adviser - General Salary Range Band D/E**:$85,302 to $132,427 depending on skills and experience

**About the Role - Korero mo te Turanga**

Fisheries New Zealand is working hard to make the most of improvements to data collection, to drive an effective and efficient fisheries system, while continuing to ensure healthy sustainable fisheries. As part of this, a new framework is being developed to manage impacts of fishing on protected species like seabirds. You will lead the delivery of this project, including working to realise the benefits for fisheries management from the $68 million Onboard Camera programme. More information on the programme is here: On-board cameras for commercial fishing vessels | NZ Government.

This role sits within the Highly Migratory and Pacific Fisheries Team in the Fisheries Management Directorate. You will work across the wider Fisheries New Zealand business unit and take a significant stakeholder engagement focus to this role, working with Seafood NZ and the Department of Conservation.

This role will involve:

- Maximising the benefits for fisheries management from the on-board cameras programme
- Providing strategic and intellectual leadership on fisheries management
- Finalising and implementing a framework for mitigating fishing impacts on protected species like seabirds, turtles and sharks
- Working closely with colleagues across MPI, other agencies and industry
- Ensuring alignment of projects/programmes and timely delivery of milestones.

**About You - Mou**

Ideally, you'll have:

- Project/Programme management experience
- Leadership skills and experience
- Experience establishing and effectively maintaining collaborative relationships with stakeholders and within and across Government agencies
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of the fisheries system and effective management responses for protected species
- Strong analytical skills.

**About the Team** - **Mo to matou Ropu**

You will be joining a passionate team that is dedicated to Highly Migratory and Pacific Fisheries, while supporting New Zealand's wider objectives in the Pacific. There is great exposure and insight as to what is happening across the Pacific. You will be part of a team that ensures that their work is contributing to the future generations of New Zealanders and the Pacific as a whole.

**About MPI - Mo te Manatu Ahu**

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) partners with New Zealand's food and fibre sector to be the world's most trusted provider of high-value food and fibre products.

**Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake?**
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.

In your cover letter we would 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 11.59pm Sunday 27 April 2025**

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