Senior Partnerships Advisor

**Senior Partnerships Advisors**

**Location: Police National Headquarters, Wellington**

**Starting Salary: $102,178 - $123,297**

**Reporting to: Partnership Manager**

**Multiple Positions Available**

**Permanent, Full-time**
- **Focus on firearms communities**:

- **Flexible Working Options**:

- **Great Career Development**

Exciting opportunity for a well-connected, strategic, and collaborative individual who already has extensive knowledge working within diverse communities and has a working knowledge of the NZ firearms community as a whole.

**Mō te tūnga | About the role**

The purpose of Arms Safety and Control business unit is to enable New Zealand to be a world leader in arms safety through an effective regulatory and administrative approach to the Arms Act and Arms Regulations. Established to lead, operate, and develop investment in modernisation of the firearms system, which will result in a more efficient and effective risk-based licensing system, introduction of comprehensive performance indicators, and shall improve public confidence in the firearms licensing system. The modernisation of the Arms Regulatory System will take every opportunity to prevent harm through transparent, high quality, consistent, legislatively correct, and effective regulatory activities, administration, education, and promotion of compliance with the provisions of the Arms Act and Arms Regulations.

The Regulator will earn trust and confidence by working together in partnership with other policing groups, iwi, the firearms community, wider New Zealand public and other agencies and organisations to achieve collective impact.

The Senior Partnership Advisor will build and maintain effective relationships with managers, districts, and community leaders nationally, to determine what their current needs and concerns are from a firearms community perspective. A primary focus of these positions will centre on engagement within the firearms community, and as such a working knowledge of this community, and or a current firearms licence would be highly advantageous.

Cultural competence, an understanding of Te Ao Māori and Mātauranga Māori, and ability to operate effectively in a Māori cultural setting are all requirements of these newly created positions. A critical element of this role will be to build trust and confidence between the community and the Arms Regulator, which will see you working collaboratively role modelling working in partnership with and being receptive toa broad range of ethnic groups across New Zealand.

**Takohanga Matua | Key Accountabilities**:

- Maintain effective working relationships with Partnership Managers and required staff within Districts in order to foster a commitment to delivering on the Regulators strategies and initiatives and to establish an effective and consistent approach to engaging with community groups
- Contribute to the development of the Regulators strategies and initiatives by developing a comprehensive understanding of the needs of the various communities within your portfolio.
- Work closing with Partnership Managers, Districts, and community leaders to identify and understand current and emerging issues and trends that have implications for how the Regulator responds, and for future strategies, policies, and initiatives.
- Coach and mentor staff as required in understanding and dealing with complex cultural issues and responding to Māori, Pacific, or Ethnic and other community issues and needs.
- Championing an approach to service delivery that recognises the needs to be responsive to the unique needs of firearms holders within Māori, Pacific and Ethnic communities.

**Qualifications / Requirements**:

- A postgraduate qualification is advantageous, this however may be offset by comparable and extensive skills knowledge and experience
- Applicants are required to be New Zealand Permanent Residents

**Pre-Employment Checks**:

- A standard vetting check is required.

**Experience is to include**:

- Experience co-designing and delivering innovative programmes and interventions with diverse communities and groups and identifying valuable policy, research and implementation insights.
- Experience gathering information on various community group issues and opportunities and using this to inform policy advice, operational practices and enhance engagement practices, and influence decision making.
- Proven experience in the supporting the development and leading the implementation of engagement strategies, plans and programme management.

**Knowledge**:

- An excellent understanding of and commitment to co-design and delivery.
- A demonstratable understanding of Te Ao Māori and Mātauranga Māori.
- Knowledge, and preferably experience of internal and corporate communications best practices and the impact they have on raising engagement and collaborative behaviour.
- Eager to stay current and aware of the broader political and government landscape

**Skills**:

- Prove