Senior/animal Welfare Inspector

**Senior**/Animal Welfare Inspector**

**Role type**: Permanent

**Location**: Auckland**

**Starting salary band & range**: COPS Compliance Services: $78,879 to $97,742
- Applicants will be considered as an Animal Welfare Inspector or Senior Animal Welfare Inspector based on their skills and experience_

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

As a Senior/Animal Welfare Inspector you will be expected to deliver a range of work to ensure animal welfare complaints are investigated appropriately. You will require sound legislative knowledge, good problem-solving skills and have excellent communication skills. Each day will provide variety, as you work both in an office and in the field, meeting new people every day, while making a difference in ensuring all aspects of animal welfare compliance across Aotearoa New Zealand.

In this role you will be:

- Ensuring investigation processes and procedures are followed.
- Managing animal welfare complaints in the primary production sector.
- Monitoring production animal facilities for compliance with animal welfare legislation.
- Working with other Animal Welfare Inspectors and NAIT Officers to prepare and present robust prosecution cases where non-compliance is identified.
- Promoting good animal welfare and NAIT practices.
- Building and sustaining positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including MPI Legal, Investigations and other sector compliance teams as well as SPCA and NZ Police.
- Having practical working knowledge of relevant legislation to investigation and compliance activities.
- Having experience in leading or supporting investigations in a compliance environment is desirable.
- Hold statutory appointments under both Animal Welfare and NAIT legislation.
- Support MPI's response capability during adversity, civil defence, and emergency situations.

**About You - Mou**

To be successful in this role you will have:

- Experience working with animals including lifestyle, production, and veterinary services.
- Willingness and understanding of the requirement of humane euthanasia and being comfortable physically performing humane euthanasia of animals where necessary.
- Knowledge of farming practices, organisations, and external animal welfare agencies.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks and investigative tools and practices.
- Practical working knowledge or be able to demonstrate the potential to develop knowledge of relevant legislation under which investigations and compliance activities operate including: NAIT Act, Animal Welfare Act, Evidence Act, Criminal Disclosure Act, Criminal Procedures Act, Search and Surveillance Act.
- Previous experience as an Animal Welfare Inspector is preferable.
- Relevant Tertiary Qualification and/or equivalent regulatory, compliance and enforcement experience would be an advantage.
- Ability to regularly travel around New Zealand.

You must have a current full New Zealand driver licence (not temporary, learner, or restricted) 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 Animal Welfare and NAIT Compliance group sit within Agriculture & Investment Services. The Auckland team are based near Auckland Airport and cover from Te Hana in the north to Bombay in the south. We are apart of the wider North Region which includes teams in Northland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty.

Our team supports MPI to pursue high standards of biosecurity and animal welfare in order to grow the value of New Zealand's food and fibre sector.

**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.

To find out more about the Ministry and what we do please click here.

**Benefits of working at MPI - Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua**
- Additional MPI leave days
- Annual Wellness payment
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

**Security checks - Nga Taki Whakahaumaru**

Low level Security Clearance
- most preferably a New Zealand citizen, who has **resided continuously in New Zealand**for at least the last **five (5) years**, OR
- is a citizen of, **and/or has resided continuously** in one or more of the following countries for the last **five (5) years**: either Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom (UK) or the United States of America (USA); **and** has a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) towards a recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at this level.
- click here to find out more about the national security vetting process and access the eligibility self-check tool.

**Drug and Alcohol Screening -**Whakamatau Whaka