Ranger Project Lead, Community

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Ranger / Project Lead Community (Statutory) collaborating on conservation work in New Zealand. Leading statutory processes and community engagement to achieve conservation goals.

Posted 4/10/2026full-timePicton • 🇳🇿 New ZealandSenior💰 NZ$68,878 - NZ$87,265 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience working in a statutory or regulatory environment, ideally with community engagement
Understanding of conservation and resource management legislation (such as the Conservation Act, Wildlife Act, Reserves Act, Resource Management Act etc), and the ability to interpret and apply policy and planning documents
Excellent communication and relationship skills
Analytical and critical thinking skills, with clear and concise writing ability
Experience planning and delivering medium complexity projects
A tertiary qualification (or equivalent experience) in resource or environmental management, or legal studies
A current full New Zealand driver licence.

Benefits

Comp & perks

DOC places importance on developing a culture where everyone can participate, thrive, and grow.
We’re working towards being an organisation that is diverse, equitable and inclusive by default.

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Hard Skills & Tools

conservation legislationResource Management ActWildlife ActReserves Actpolicy interpretationproject planningproject deliveryanalytical skillscritical thinkingwriting ability

Soft Skills

communication skillsrelationship buildingcollaborationmentoringcapability buildingleadershipadvice provisioncommunity engagementteamworkproblem-solving

Certifications

tertiary qualification in resource managementtertiary qualification in environmental managementtertiary qualification in legal studiesfull New Zealand driver licence