Manager - Sustainability

**Manager - Sustainability**
- **Based at PNHQ, Wellington**:

- **Grade 22**:

- **Permanent, Full Time**:

- **Office of Constable / Police Employee**:

- **Nationally Advertised Vacancy**:

- **Job Req 4570137**

**Mō te tūnga | About the role**

New Zealand Police delivers services that ensure communities are safe and feel secure, with less crime, road trauma and fewer victims. Police operates 24 hours a day in a complex environment actively preventing crime and crashes. With around 14,000 staff, we work from community-based police stations and large policing hubs, operate on land, sea and in the air, and respond to over 1.2 million events, 1.3 million emergency calls and over 1 million non-emergency calls every year.

The National Sustainability Manager provides guidance and professional advice; working at strategic, managerial and operational to grow and transform sustainability across the whole of NZ Police (NZP). The Manager - Sustainability is NZP’s thought leader and technical expert on the organisational sustainability ambition, plans and roadmaps, and progress towards climate-related emission reduction targets, and is required to work in a complex operating environment working with diverse stakeholders and participants. The Manager - Sustainability works closely with, and in partnership with functional leaders (internally and externally) with a view to ensure that NZ Police’s purpose, value and ambition for sustainability is well understood, integrated into functional plans, and championed by a wide cross-section of the organisation.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Lead the organisation’s Sustainability Management capability, including the development of strategy, plans, policies, and processes including working to set ambitious and tangible goals.
- Lead the organisation’s Sustainability Services high performance team.
- Lead the development and vision of NZ Police’s long term, strategic sustainability plan, including working to set ambitious and tangible goals
- Create practices, tools and forums to share sustainability expertise, build knowledge, and generate ideas and commitment to sustainability across NZP and with external partners and stakeholders
- Develop capability to meet (and potentially exceed) mandated requirements
- Review sustainability program objectives, progress, or status to ensure compliance with policies, standards, regulations, or laws
- Develop the highest standards of sustainability reporting and disclosures for NZP and ensure sustainability is front of mind in strategic decision making.
- Provide sustainability expertise to significant acquisition and procurement activities as a standing member of NZP’s Procurement Assurance Board
- Lead Official Responses for all Sustainability related requests for information whether written/oral parliamentary questions, requests under the Official Information Act, or any other required briefs.

**He aha taau e kawe mai | What you’ll bring**

Being part of the Police whānau is about being our best to ensure our communities are safe and feel safe. Our Core Competencies provide a shared understanding of the behaviours, leadership and technical competence required for success at each level of Police. Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.

**To be successful in this role the Manager Sustainability will**:

- Have credible experience building sustainability related initiatives in large organisations, preferably in the government sector, from strategy to implementation
- Demonstrate the ability to build and lead high performing teams, and develop effective working relationships within teams and across the business to achieve desired outcomes
- Have evidence of successfully supporting organisations to reduce scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions and respond to a changing climate
- Be competent in developing and delivering multimode, evidence-based communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
- Be a responsive and agile business partner to ensure organisational requirements and outcomes are met
- Be proactive, self-directed, and motivated to get the job done amongst tight and competing deadlines
- Foster a culture of innovation and perseverance which will encourage the organisation to move forward

This role is set at
**Leader/Manager level**, this means your key purpose is “to lead tactics for Our Business and enable people to deliver them”.

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**Mo tatou | About us**

Our mission is to prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing. Our vision is to be the safest country. Our purpose is to ensure everybody can be safe and