Manager Restoration / Kaiwhakahaere Urupare

Are you passionate about restoring Porirua’s biodiversity? Lead a hardworking and passionate team to deliver this critical work.

Porirua City is a great place to live, work and raise a family, with significant growth and opportunities. We’re upgrading our infrastructure, connecting our city and managing how we grow. We’re developing and creating a resilient, liveable city for our future generations and need skilled people like you to help make it all happen.

About the role

In this critical role, influential and leadership skills and passion for biodiversity will be a real asset. You will be responsible for: 

• Implementing the biodiversity strategy though delivering revegetation and restoration plans
• Ensuring our gardens, tracks and coastal areas are considered with a biodiversity lens
• Leading the team to execute the day-to-day operations of the revegetation programme.
• Creating a volunteer base within the community, business and friend groups
• Introducing an education programme on urban ecology and biodiversity
• Coordinating planting activities and managing resources and logistics
• Ensuring compliance with health & safety standards and environmental regulations

About you

You’ll have a strong background in leadership, biodiversity management and practice and have a passion for improving Porirua City’s environment. You’ll need to show us that you:

• Have a qualification in ecology, environmental restoration of similar experience
• Have strong people leadership skills and experience
• Can demonstrate knowledge in ecological restoration, and/or biodiversity management
• Have great project management skills including planning, implementation, budgeting, monitoring and reporting
• Will build effective and enduring positive relationships with a range of stakeholders and partners including iwi, community groups and contractors
• Will inspire, motivate and influence your team
• Have a full unrestricted driver licence
• Can meet the physical requirements of the role

What you need to do now

Come and join our high-performing and diverse Parks Team and be part of our welcoming and engaging environment. Please contact Dave Stone on 021 673 823for more information.

Porirua City embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications by people from all backgrounds and are a member of Diversity Works. If you have any support or access requirements during our recruitment process, please let us know when you apply, and we’ll do our best to get you sorted.

You will need to apply via our careers centre: www.poriruacity.govt.nz/careers.

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Applications close on Thursday 14 November 2024.