Posted: 17/01/2025
Closing Date: 02/02/2025
Job Type: Permanent – Full Time
Location: Timaru
Job Category: Environmental Services
- Bring your Team Leadership expertise
- Contribute to Environment Canterbury’s water and land catchment outcomes
- Environmental management experience ideal
Kōrero mō te Tūranga | About the Role
Based in Timaru looking after the South Canterbury, Mackenzie and Waitaki districts
As a people leader, you’ll provide engaging and dynamic leadership, ensuring your team performs at its best. You’ll integrate operational and functional alignment, driving high performance and delivering quality services to our communities. You’ll be a key player in upholding our values, strategies, ways of working, and commitments outlined in our Long-Term and Annual Plans with a focus on improvement.
More about the role:
- Lead and inspire a team to achieve Environment Canterbury’s water and land catchment outcomes by delivering operational work programmes with partners and communities
- Ensure high performance and quality services that align with our strategic priorities empowering landowners and communities to do the right thing
- Collaborate across the organisation to foster a positive culture and achieve strategic goals
- Maintain key relationships on behalf of Environment Canterbury
Mōu │ About You
You’ll ideally have a tertiary qualification in environmental management, agricultural science, natural resource management or a similar field, with a sound understanding of farm systems and options to manage environmental impact.
You’ll be part of a supportive, collaborative, forward-thinking team committed to environmental sustainability having a tangible impact on the community and the environment.
More about you:
- Minimum of five years’ experience in an operational water and land environment
- Experience with the Resource Management Act and associated legislation
- Demonstrated leadership in operational planning and resource coordination, turning strategy into action and outcomes
- Experience in stakeholder engagement and collaboration, including landowners, iwi, and community groups
- Proficiency in project and financial management
- Commitment to Te Ao Māori and the Treaty of Waitangi
Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Kaunihera Taiao ki Waitaha | Working at Environment Canterbury
Our values underpin everything we do. We understand and embrace a diverse workforce; this diversity will enable us to better serve our people, our community, and our greatest taonga, the environment. We value everyone’s contribution, diverse thinking, and skills.
We’re on a journey to become a treaty partner of excellence, including incorporating Te Ao Māori into our work. We offer supportive opportunities to develop capability in this area and encourage our people to use kaupapa Māori, mātauranga Māori and te reo Māori in our daily work. We welcome you with an open heart & mind, wherever you are on your personal te ao Māori journey.
Applications close on Sunday, 2 February. We encourage you to apply early, we will be reviewing applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close the advertising early.
Short-listed candidates will be required to complete an interview process, reference checks, and a criminal check. Further background checking will be required when relevant to the role.
Me mahi tahi tātou – Together we can