Analyst/senior Analyst

Analyst/Senior Analyst - Treaty Analysis and Capability

**Role type**: Permanent
**Location**: Wellington or Auckland
**Salary band**: $67,764 to $91,681 depending on skills and experience - Analyst
**Salary band**: $77,652 to $124,570 depending on skills and experience - Senior Analyst

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the Role
As part of Fisheries NZ's commitment to strengthening our partnership with Māori, a new Fisheries and Aquaculture Treaty Partnerships Directorate has been formed. As an Analyst or Senior Analyst, you will join the growing Treaty Analysis and Capability team to provide advice and build our cultural and engagement capability so that all our practices embody Treaty principles, Mātauranga Māori and protect Māori Rights and Interests.
You will deliver analysis on the effects of Crown policy and management proposals on Māori rights and interests secured by the Treaty of Waitangi, Treaty Settlements, and Protocols.

**Your core responsibilities in this role include**:

- Contributing to strategic advice on the Treaty implications of programmes and policies.
- Developing strategies, plans, programmes, and regulatory responses to enable Fisheries New Zealand to identify and discharge its Treaty of Waitangi obligations when undertaking research, fisheries planning, and management of New Zealand's fisheries and aquaculture resources.
- Contributing to the development of plans, programmes, and regulatory responses to enable tangata whenua to exercise customary fishing rights, and for tangata whenua and Māori to improve the value of and benefits from their commercial fisheries and aquaculture assets received through Treaty settlements.

Mōu - About You

**We are looking for someone who has**:

- A strong understanding of management policies relating to the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and the Crown's obligations to Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi.
- Proven analytical ability in law or natural resource management.
- A good understanding of Te Ao Māori.
- Previous experience working in partnership with Māori and/or strategic leadership.
- Proven ability to work with stakeholders with diverse skill sets and information requirements, and to build credible and effective relationships.
- Confidence in managing relationships with difficult stakeholders, with sound experience in achieving beneficial outcomes through negotiation and conflict management - especially with Māori.
- Sound understanding of the machinery of government and regulatory best practice.
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate the perspectives of Māori to a variety of audiences.

Mō Tātou - About Us
Fisheries New Zealand is a branch within the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI). Fisheries NZ's vision is that:

- New Zealand will be the world's most sustainable provider of high-value fisheries and aquaculture products.
- Our fisheries and aquaculture will be innovative and world-leading in environmental performance.
- Our ocean ecosystems will be healthy and abundant, contributing to thriving communities and benefiting the social, economic and cultural wellbeing of all New Zealanders.

Fisheries New Zealand will work dynamically as a steward to achieve this, led by productive partnerships with tangata whenua, effective local engagement, robust science, and innovative
use of data.
Kei te tino whai whakaaro ngā tāngata o Aotearoa ki ā rātau mahinga ika me te taiao moana.
Ko tā Te Tini a Tangaroa, he whakahaere i ngā rawa ika kia tino whai hua ai mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa.
Mā te mahi me mātau ka hoki koe ki te kāinga i runga i te mōhio i whai kiko ō mahi mō te whakahaere o ngā mahi whakahaere i ngā rawa ika o Aotearoa me te taiao moana whānui kia toitū ai.
New Zealanders care deeply about their fisheries and marine environment.
Fisheries New Zealand works to ensure that fisheries resources are managed in a way that provides the greatest overall benefit to New Zealanders.
Working with us means that every day you'll go home knowing you've made a positive contribution to the sustainable management of New Zealand's valuable fisheries resources and their wider marine environment.
To join a diverse and interesting organisation that offers a wide range of career opportunities click on our link below

Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI
- Up to three additional (MPI holidays) leave days
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation
- Wellness benefit for employees
- Parental leave ex-gratia payment
- Comprehensive 3-day MPI Induction Programme
- Bi-annual MPI-paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

See the benefits of working at MPI

Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to Apply

The closing date is Sunday 13 March