Environmental Protection Authority NZ

General

• Supporting independent panels to make robust decisions
• Leading application teams across various types of applications and legislation.
• Providing or facilitating the provision of specialist consent processing expertise and advice to various key stakeholders.
• Support teams to achieve compliance with statutory timeframes and budget constraints.
• Assist the Principal Advisor to identify areas for improvement/ training requirements.

Application Lead

Advisor

• Manage a busy workload of projects
• Work across a range of legislation and work streams
• Contribute to the success of the EPA
• Build strong and positive connections with stakeholders and across the EPA
• Deliver advice to decision makers on the regulation of agricultural inhibitors, including methane and nitrogen inhibitors.

Senior Advisor – Inhibitors

Product Manager

• Acting as the bridge between business, IT, and external users, providing system leadership across the Application Management System (AMS) and Cost Recovery System (CRS), supporting users, resolving issues, and ensuring systems effectively enable regulatory processes.
• Leading system performance and governance of AMS and CRS; supporting users through training and guidance; managing relationships with internal stakeholders, agencies, and vendors; overseeing upgrades, releases, and testing; and driving continuous improvement in time management and cost recovery processes.
• Systems that are reliable, fit-for-purpose, and continuously improving; confident and capable users across internal and external stakeholders; high-quality, accurate reporting and insights; and strong relationships that ensure issues are proactively managed and resolved

Product Owner – Land and Oceans Applications

• providing advice and support to applicants and delegated decision makers for the import and export of controlled goods, such as hazardous waste and ozone depleting substances
• liaison with a range of stakeholders (including submitters, applicants and other government and international agencies) on statutory decision making
• managing a busy workload of applications
• working across a range of legislation and work streams
• contributing to the success of the EPA
• building strong, positive connections with customers and communicating effectively

Advisor – HS Applications

Communications

• Lead effective and engaging internal communications.
• Partner with business groups to advise on reputational risks and seek communications opportunities.
• Develop and deliver communications for internal and external EPA projects and initiatives.
• Enhance awareness of EPA priorities and key projects through proactive storytelling.
• Manage media issues, including responding to media enquiries.
• Proactively seek media opportunities and create media releases.
• Contribute to and support the delivery of a range of EPA publications from e-newsletters to corporate documents.
• Simplify often complex and technical subject matter so that it is relevant, engaging and able to be understood by a range of audiences and suitable for use via various communications channels.
• Support the delivery of the EPA’s digital communications channels including our website, our intranet and social media.
• Provide communications support and advice for the EPA Board Chair, Chief Executive, and Executive Leadership Team.
• Advise on and support initiatives to enhance stakeholder engagement.
• Monitor, evaluate and report on communications delivery, and making continual improvements.

Senior Advisor, Communications

Compliance

• We are looking for regulatory practitioners with experience in carrying out a range of compliance, monitoring and enforcement activities and initiatives to ensure compliance across the EPA’s legislative mandate.
• This includes the delivery of our CME functions as well as providing quality technical and procedural advice, and maintaining professional relationships with regulated parties.
• You will be responsible for conducting and assisting with compliance activities within technically complex facilities whilst adhering to health and safety policies and procedures to mitigate risk.
• You will be solution focused, able to identify system improvements and support the delivery of training within CME whilst adhering to organisational values and behaviours.
• In the Compliance team you will be acting on notifications of non-compliance from the public and from your colleagues, triaging and looking in this information, and taking the appropriate response to resolve any non-compliances identified.
• In the Monitoring team you will be ensuring compliance across a range of approved activities and ensuring that duty holders are meeting the obligations of those approvals.
• This team is particularly focused on the higher risk activities and the minimising the potential environmental harm from them.
• In the Proactive Campaigns team you will be tasked with finding innovative solutions to fix environmental issues at a system level.

Compliance Officer

• Lead and enhance our regulatory compliance, monitoring, and enforcement functions
• Provide high-quality technical and procedural advice
• Support compliance activities and maintain professional relationships with regulated parties
• Conduct inspections and investigations within technically challenging areas, including hazardous substances, ozone-depleting gases, and the emissions trading scheme
• Mentor team members, develop processes, and ensure quality assurance of outputs
• Lead and contribute to projects aimed at enhancing and improving our internal systems and processes.

Senior Compliance Officer

People Operations

• Partner with leaders to lift capability, performance, and engagement
• Provide expert advice on employment relations and complex people issues
• Lead or support organisational change and workforce planning
• Deliver and contribute to P&C projects and initiatives
• Coach leaders to build confidence and self-sufficiency
• Ensure HR practices align with legislation and best practice