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September 23, 2024
LGJobs
Christchurch
OTHER & FULL TIME
Team Leader - Environmental Data Insights
- Bring data governance practices to our science team
- Create a team environment that enables innovation
- Contribute to ongoing service improvement
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 RoleThe work of the Science Group at Environment Canterbury consists of providing: environmental monitoring and data; and research and advice to internal and external customers. The Science Group plays a key role in informing decision making across most of the organisation including informing organisational strategic intent, processing of consents, our approach to compliance, responding to incidents, the development of plans, and measuring our progress towards regional and national environmental targets.
Reporting to the Manager – Environmental Data, this newly created role will lead a team that takes an interdisciplinary approach to complex environmental science problems, analysing and building innovative products that automate data retrieval and analysis to provide insights and information to inform decision making.
As a technical people leader you’ll:
- Monitor and mitigate risks and issues that may impact on the team’s ability to deliver data insights.
- Lead the team to explore and explain environmental data in novel ways that connects their audience and ensure the team can communicate data and information from multiple sources.
- Advance the use of other information/data sources (e.g. mātauranga Māori, citizen science) as complementary to other data collected.
- Manage resources, and conflicting priorities to deliver on outputs, priorities and agreed timeframes.
- Ensure communications and enquiries are managed.
- Maintaining an overview of workload and ensuring resources to deliver on agreed programmes of work, including budget management
- Develop and maintain strategies, annual plans and work programmes to deliver a fit for purpose function.
The indicative annual salary range is $114000-$126000 per annum. This is a 40 hour a week position. Hours will be worked Monday to Friday inclusive. The location is 200 Tuam Street, Christchurch.
Mōu About You
Whilst you have a strong technical capability, you’re a natural connector or people and comfortable to collaborate with leaders and kaimahi to ensure alignment of projects, policies, processes, and systems to deliver the best results.
You’ll bring skills and experience in the following:
- A Master’s degree in science, mathematics, or computer science, with a strong focus on statistics, analytics, modelling, or machine learning
- Significant professional experience in data science.
- Five years environmental science experience with a strong insights skills, ie, statistics/analytics/data modelling emphasis.
- Experience in: data governance; good data practices, working with scientific data.
- Proven ability to lead teams working collaboratively as part of multi-disciplinary teams comprising scientists, analysts, data architects, data engineers, communications and engagement, and others, to deliver data insights
- Strong programming experience using a range of coding practices to build scalable data products for a range of users within a technology context.
- Proven ability in triaging and prioritising the work of others to ensure effective resourcing to meet delivery targets.
- Understanding of the Resource Management Act requirements in relation to environmental data, including obligations on Regional Councils.
- Commitment to and 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.
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.
For a confidential chat about this role, please contact Shaun Thomsen on 0275497673
Applications close on 13 October 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
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