Programme Manager Sought for Kaimai Mamaku Forest Biodiversity Initiative

The Department is looking for an experienced Project or Programme Manager with good relationships among iwi and hapu around the Kaimai Mamaku Ranges to help lead, plan, develop and manage the delivery of a five-year programme, as the start of a much longer programme life.

This kaupapa, �Towards Thriving Kaimai Mamaku Forests,� will involve identifying and engaging / resourcing / supporting hapu and local communities to establish or grow social licence for biodiversity work including animal pest control. It will also see an immediate doubling of agency-funded animal pest control where social licence to operate exists, and a ramping up of monitoring and communication efforts.

The work is supported through funding and governance from a Project Governance Group made up of; the Department, Bay of Plenty Regional Council (BOPRC), Waikato Regional Council (WRC) and the Manaaki Kaimai-Mamaku Trust (MKMT), while recognising that a co-decision making relationship between the Crown and Mana Whenua underpins the future management of public conservation land.