Senior National Operations Coordinator

**Job Title**:Senior National Operations Coordinator

**Role type**: Permanent Full-Time

**Location**: Auckland (Mangere and CBD)

**Salary band & range**:General Salary Range E - $87,008 to $111,782**depending on skills and experience

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

As a Senior National Operations Coordinator, you'll enhance situational awareness across MPI and the wider government system by managing real-time information, building strong relationships, and supporting confident decision-making.

As our Senior National Operations Coordinator, you'll be central to this kaupapa: establishing and maintaining relationships throughout the Greater Auckland Region. You will be part of the key alternate arrangements should national control need to be led by Auckland and support the Delegated Chief Executive (DCE). You'll bring your organisational skills, adaptability, and commitment to public service to a team that values integrity, teamwork, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to make a real impact and grow your career in a role that matters, we'd love to hear from you.

Based in Auckland you'll work face-to-face with internal and external stakeholders, supporting the delegated Chief Executive and liaising with senior leaders.

This role offers autonomy, variety, and the opportunity to shape how operational coordination is delivered across the biosecurity system.

You'll love to:

- Use your emergency management background to support all-of-government coordination and response
- Build and maintain strong networks across MPI and the wider government system
- Support the delegated Chief Executive and liaise with senior leaders
- Provide real-time information to enable confident, timely decision-making across operational and strategic levels
- Lead innovative approaches to improve situational awareness and operational coordination
- Work across multiple business areas and agencies to support biosecurity readiness and response
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy and shape the role to meet evolving needs
- Engage directly with stakeholders through face-to-face interactions at key operational sites

There are regular on-call needs with this role. You will be required to work during a variety of response events, at varying levels, and there will also be some overnight travel.

**About You - Mou**

You bring autonomy, vision, and foresight, with strong networks in emergency management, local councils, and partner organisations. You're confident navigating ambiguity, prioritising work, and engaging across diverse topics and operational environments.

You bring strong skills to:

- Communicate effectively across a range of levels and organisations
- Work in a varied-paced environment and manage ambiguity
- Be involved in responses
- Establish networks across MPI, wider government and industry

You must have a current full New Zealand driver licence (not temporary, learner, or provisional) or equivalent full foreign drivers licence, and any endorsements required for the type of driving you'll be doing.

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

The National Operations Centre (NOC) sits within the Biosecurity Intelligence Systems, and Response Group. The team is responsible for national-level awareness, coordination, and operational support for responses, surveillance, and readiness activities.

We are a close-knit team supporting the Ministry for Primary Industries. We work collaboratively, value integrity and continuous improvement, and support each other through challenges and change. We foster an environment where ideas can be challenged, discussed, and worked through together.

This newly created role strengthens our Auckland presence, supporting national resilience and the Delegated Chief Executive when needed. You'll be part of a small, fun, and supportive satellite team, backed by the local Biosecurity Response Operations team.
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**About MPI - Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua**

Our role includes seizing export opportunities for our food and fibre sector, improving sector productivity, ensuring the food we produce is safe, increasing sustainable resource use, and protecting New Zealand from biological risk.
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**Benefits of working at MPI - Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua**
- Additional MPI leave days
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation

**Security checks - Nga Taki Whakahaumaru**

**Higher level Security Clearance**
- most preferably a New Zealand citizen who has **resided continuously in New Zealand** for at least the last **ten**(**10) years**, OR
- is a citizen of, **and/or has resided continuously** in one or more of the following countries for the last **ten (10) years**: either Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK or the USA; **and** has a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the NZSIS towards a recommendation of sui