Manager - Alcohol Harm Prevention

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Manager - Alcohol Harm Prevention
- JR 4504706
- Based at PNHQ
- Grade 21
- Permanent, Non-Shift
- Employee | Office of Constable

About the role
Māori & Community Prevention Partnerships, part of Iwi & Community and based at Police National Headquarters is seeking a person experienced in alcohol harm prevention to join our Community Prevention Partnerships team as the Manager - Alcohol Harm Prevention. The primary focus of this role is to enable our frontline and alcohol harm prevention staff and partners to deliver Our Business and ensure communities feel safe and are safe.
If you have a passion for preventing alcohol harm in partnership with our partners, then this is the job for you. Alcohol is a significant driver of demand in communities across the motu and together, with our partners, we are looking at opportunities to use our combined resources to prevent crime and harm in all communities.
The most important assets you will bring are the ability to work in a dynamic team, a willingness to tackle a variety of work with a positive attitude.
As the Manager - Alcohol Harm Prevention you will take a leadership role within Police, helping, guiding, and empowering our alcohol harm prevention staff and their partners to make New Zealand’s diverse communities a safer place to live, work and study.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Contribute to the development of Iwi & Community strategies and initiatives that meet the needs of Māori, Pacific, ethnic and other communities.
- Work with districts to help their alcohol harm prevention staff build effective local community partnerships and get buy-in to nationally led alcohol harm prevention policing initiatives.
- To provide specialist input and advice on alcohol harm issues to Iwi and Community Prevention Partnerships managers, including the Executive when required.
- To provide input, or lead, the development, maintenance and delivery of alcohol harm prevention strategies, tactics, education and training.
- Contribute to and help co-ordinate alcohol harm prevention research and evaluation and support recommendations based on the outcomes of such research and evaluation.

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. [copy this paragraph as is]

About you
You’ll be an experienced and skilled communicator, able to engage with a wide range of audiences and adapt your message appropriately. You’ll be confident, interested in learning, and developing yourself and others. You’ll have experience working independently and as part of a team, and in a range of environments including in leadership roles (whether formal or otherwise). You’ll be able to take ideas from conception to execution by identifying and overcoming barriers while keeping the end goal in mind.
For Police constabulary applicants, CPK to Senior Sergeant level is desired, but not essential. If successful, CPK will be required to be completed within 12 months of taking up the role, and the CEP leadership program commenced.

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”.

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 feel safe.

Special requirements
- * Undertake to engage in a leadership programme at the advertised level, at a future date or
- Due to the ‘Hard to Fill’ nature of this role, it is desirable but not essential that applicants hold their current [role level rank ie. Sergeant] CPK, and either;
- * Undertake to engage in a leadership programme at the advertised level, at a future date or

Working Flexibly
Your wellbeing inside and outside of work is important to us. We’re open to discussing flexible working options that work for both you and the business.

How to apply

Remuneration upon appointment to the role will be