General Manager - Regulatory Implementation

Kaunihera Taiao ki Waitaha │ About Environment Canterbury

Waitaha - our Canterbury region - is like no other and we are proud to call it home. We are privileged to be working with Ngā Papatipu Rūnanga, stakeholders, and our wider community to protect our environment, including water, land, and air through regulation and planning. As a Regional Council we're responsible for flood protection, public transport, civil defence, and more.

Together we're taking action to shape a thriving and resilient Canterbury, now and for future generations. Toitū te marae o Tāne, toitū te marae o Tangaroa, toitū te tangata, If the land is well and the sea is well, the people will thrive.

Kōrero mō te Tūranga | About the Role

Reporting to the Director Operations, this role will provide engaging, dynamic leadership, integrating strategic functional alignment to drive high performance and outcomes that ensure quality services are delivered to our communities in accordance with our values, strategies, ways of working and Long-Term / Annual Plan commitments. You’ll be fully accountable for the development and effective implementation of our compliance strategy.

More about the role :

• Focus on strategic implementation across a 3-to-5-year horizon of cross-organisation & integrated service delivery
• Oversee and structure relationships with stakeholders
• Lead the organisational approach to being a good regulator
• Accountable for meeting our statutory timelines and standards for processing all consents
• Oversee the reporting of progress on operational deliverables
• Ensure operational input into the Long-Term Plan (LTP), annual plans, Resource Management Act plans
• Design, implement, review, & improve productive organisational systems
• Support the transitioning to a new and ongoing way of operating
• Maintain a safety focused culture where health, safety and wellbeing are at the heart of decision making for kaimahi

Mōu │ About You

Ideally, you’ll have a Bachelor’s degree in a related speciality (e.g. Resource Management, Environmental Planning, Environmental Law, Natural Resource Management) that has relevance to the role. You’ll have a minimum of 10-years’ experience working in regulatory implementation of the Resource Management Act and other legislations.

Additionally, you’ll be accustomed to developing and forming lasting relationships, including engaging with our Ngāi Tahu partners to ensure understanding of Ngāi Tahu aspirations and priorities as they relate to our programme development and prioritisation.

More about you :

• A strong technical leader
• A strategic thinker with a lens on the future
• An experienced senior manager within the public or private sector, capable of leading large, complex regulatory programmes of work
• Have a high-level understanding of legal regulation and statutory requirements
• Work to tight timeframes and targets including LTP levels of service
• Able to translate statutory standards, guidelines, and professional practices into a robust decision
• Have financial management expertise, including risk management, budgets, fiscal plans & forecasting skills
• People leadership, mentoring, coaching & demonstrable experience contributing to service delivery uplift
• Commitment to & an understanding of te ao Māori, awareness of the evolving obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi, together with experience of applying this in a workplace setting

The success of this role relies on authentic leadership, motivating, managing performance and accountability, and developing leaders.

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.

To find out more about us and the mahi we do - click .

Applications close on Sunday 7 July 2024. 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.