Manager Aquaculture Settlements

**Job Title**: Manager Aquaculture Settlements
**Role type**: Permanent, full-time
**Location**: Wellington
**General Salary Range B**: $136,214 to $182,836 depending on skills and experience
Applications from MPI employees with Affected status will be given priority consideration
Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Manager to lead our Aquaculture Settlement team which sits within Fisheries New Zealand. This team is responsible for facilitating sustainable and resilient aquaculture development through implementing and delivering the Māori commercial aquaculture settlement and for supporting improvements to the regulatory controls on aquaculture activities that promote sector sustainability and resilience.
These are critical functions to guide sustainable growth of aquaculture in New Zealand. In this role, you will be a leader within a Directorate of people passionate and committed to making aquaculture a much bigger part of our economy, growing in a way that prioritises positive environmental outcomes, working with people, and reducing waste and emissions.
If you want a challenging and rewarding role, building and leading a talented team to develop and deliver strategic advice and Treaty settlements to increase the sustainability, productivity, resilience and inclusivity of aquaculture, then this is the role for you.
To find out more about our strategy and work to grow aquaculture in New Zealand to $3 billion by 2035, visit us here and Learn how MPI is helping to ensure aquaculture is developed in a sustainable way
Mōu - About You
As a people leader, you will bring experience in managing high performing teams preferably with a focus on delivering positive outcomes for Māori.
You will be capable of leading the development and delivery of settlement agreements with iwi, managing relationships with a variety of stakeholders and understand how to enable and support sustainable sector growth.
To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate:

- Experience in working with Māori to deliver on Crown obligations
- Proven ability to build a collaborative team culture and foster a high performing team environment
- Proven ability to thrive in a rapidly evolving operating environment
- Experience in navigating the machinery of government and understanding of regulatory best practice
- Financial planning and budget management
- Project or programme management skills
- A tertiary qualification in economics, law, resource management, agricultural, forestry, fisheries, horticultural or biological sciences, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience at a senior management level

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team
This team is situated across the motu to ensure that the Ministry is effectively serving the communities we work with. Several are in Nelson, including the Director Aquaculture, to whom this position reports. Given the work programme is to deliver aquaculture treaty settlements and grow the aquaculture sector in Aotearoa, you will get to work alongside very passionate people to make collective change.
Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI
We're passionate about growing prosperity in the sector while ensuring respect for Kaitiaki - guardianship of our natural resources.
Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Annual Wellness payment
- Comprehensive 3-day MPI Induction Programme
- 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, whānau 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 1 September 2024