Senior Programme Coordinator at Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington City

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Job Title: Senior Programme Coordinator

Role type: Fixed term, Full time

Location: Wellington

Salary range: $78,817 to $106,634 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the Role

You'll directly support the Programme Manager in MPI's On-Board Cameras programme, tasked with installing digital cameras on-board around 300 New Zealand fishing vessels. You'll provide a strong rigour of programme management methodologies and mindset into the ways on-board cameras programme works as a team.

Your key responsibilities for this role will include:

• Coordinate workstream status reporting, external reporting, and collate overall programme status reporting for governance reports
• Lead the administration of monthly Board meetings and weekly team meetings
• Actively track and update programme risks, issue, decisions, and changes
• Manage programme actions and ensure these are captured in the programme task management tool
• Support the recruitment, onboarding, and offboarding of programme resources
• Manage the monthly budget accruals reporting and supplier invoice payments
• Co-ordinate on-site and off-site programme events and associated travel, as required
• Support health and safety reporting and pre-travel preparations, as required
• Proactively look for opportunities to improve systems, processes, and performance of programme activities
• Ensuring all administrative tasks/functions comply with MPI's policies, procedures, and quality standards

Mōu - About You

You'll be a good fit for this role if you have:

• Experience providing coordination support in a large programme / project environment with a number of team members
• Experience in developing, operating and continuous improvement of quality office systems
• Advanced relationship management skills with an ability to manage relationships across all levels of the organisation
• Experience in problem solving using sound judgement to make decisions and act on them where appropriate, ensuring key deadlines are met.
• Ability and propensity to embrace change and navigate ambiguity
• Advanced skills using MS Office products (Word, Excel, PPT, Project) and Outlook

Mō tō mātou rōpū - About the Team

Here in the Digital Monitoring team, we're part of setting the platform for a sustainable and prosperous future, covering two of the three key parts of the Fisheries Change Programme.
Our role in this is information: knowing exactly what fish, non-fish, and protected species are caught in commercial fisheries; and where and when these are being caught.
This includes an electronic catch and position reporting system for all New Zealand commercial fishers, and on-board cameras – to verify these catch reports and monitor fishing activity by commercial fishers, to encourage compliance with the rules.
Some digital monitoring benefits are being realised already. For others, we will work to transition towards new systems and processes that can unlock their full potential.

Be a key part in helping with the role out of the Electronic Monitoring on Vessels – On-Board Camera programme.

We're taking the time to get our on-board camera technology, systems and processes right, so we've started with just a small number of vessels – prioritising commercial fishing with the greatest risk of encountering the critically endangered Māui dolphin.

Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI

• Up to three additional leave days
• Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
• Comprehensive 3-day MPI Induction Programme

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working
We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.

Me pēhea te tuku tono - How to Apply

To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.

Applications close at midnight on Tuesday 7 February 2023

If you have any questions about the role, please email Kirsty.Rogers@mpi.govt.nz 

The Ministry for Primary Industries is committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values inclusion and diversity. Your unique talents and experience will help us deliver exceptional services to our communities in Aotearoa. In return you'll enjoy an inclusive and flexible working environment in a diverse team of people while you're growing your career here in NZ and internationally. We actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to tell us when you apply so that we can assist you through the recruitment process.