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Community Manager

• Lead meaningful community engagement initiatives that help protect Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique conservation values.
• Partner with iwi, communities, and key stakeholders to deliver positive conservation outcomes.
• Manage key relationships with community groups working or wanting to work on public conservation land and supporting them to achieve success.
• Plan and deliver campaigns that increase connection to conservation.
• Support the implementation of community-focused national work programmes like Tiakina Kauri and Predator Free 2050.
• Collaborate and strengthen relationships with key external stakeholders, including Treaty partners, businesses, and institutions.
• Mentor colleagues and support capability building across the team.

Ranger – Project Lead, Community

Project Manager

• Lead Dam Safety Programme works
• End to end delivery of complex projects
• Align projects with strategic objectives
• Managing project performance including budgets and schedules
• Establishing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships
• Overseeing procurement and supplier management

Senior Project Manager

• Work collaboratively with colleagues across district and national teams to ensure statutory and community work is connected, consistent, and impactful.
• Lead statutory processes and provide high quality advice that supports meaningful conservation outcomes across the region.
• Assess Permission applications, interpret and apply conservation legislation, contribute to Resource Management Act (RMA) processes, and offer well-reasoned advice to managers and decision-makers.
• Help strengthen DOC’s relationships with Treaty partners, concessionaires and community conservation groups.
• Ensure statutory and community work in the region is connected, consistent and impactful.
• Build and maintain relationships with Treaty partners, community groups, and concessionaires.
• Lead and deliver statutory and community work programmes.
• Collaborate with technical experts and district teams.
• Manage complex concession relationships.
• Mentor colleagues and support capability building across the team.
• Represent DOC in cross agency and community engagement initiatives.

Ranger Project Lead, Community

Affiliate Manager

• Identify gaps in Treaty settlement implementation and work with operations teams to address these.
• Scope, develop and operationalise opportunities arising from new and existing Treaty settlements, including conservation and commercial initiatives.
• Coordinate legal advice and interpret settlement documentation to ensure obligations are fully understood and met.
• Facilitate annual planning processes and regular engagement meetings with Treaty Partners.
• Manage agreed initiatives and support DOC leadership in strategic iwi partnerships.
• Support whānau, hapū, and iwi to build capability and exercise their role as kaitiaki.
• Contribute to the development of a regional framework for DOC's obligations to PSGEs.
• Hold and maintain key iwi relationships supporting the Tongariro District.

Kaitohu Matua – Treaty Partner Relationships, Senior Advisor

Operations

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and enable excellence
• Support operations for kākāpō and takahē recovery programmes in Southland
• Lead the team’s annual work planning and reporting
• Generate insights, manage issues, and ensure disciplined operations
• Oversee assurance, issue management, and spearhead business improvement initiatives
• Oversee planning, reporting and budget management for the team
• Create the quarterly and annual business plans for the team
• Produce reporting and insights to identify gaps and areas for improvement and efficiencies
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders across DOC to achieve desired outcomes

Ranger – Project Lead, Community

Senior Project Manager

Ranger Project Lead, Community

Kaitohu Matua – Treaty Partner Relationships, Senior Advisor

Operations Advisor – Kākāpō, Takahē Team