Resource Advisor/Senior Resource Advisor

We are looking for a Resource Advisor or Senior Resource Advisor to join our dedicated Environmental Regulation team based in our modern office in Masterton.

This is an excellent opportunity to work across consenting, compliance and enforcement activities while helping deliver positive environmental outcomes for the Wellington region. You'll be joining a friendly, supportive team of people who are passionate about doing great work for our extraordinary region.

The role may be appointed at either Resource Advisor or Senior Resource Advisor level, depending on the skills, experience and capabilities of the successful candidate.

Whether you are an experienced Resource Advisor looking to expand your expertise and influence, or a Senior Resource Advisor looking to provide technical leadership and mentor others, we'd love to hear from you.

About the role

As a Resource Advisor within the Rural Activities team, you will play an important role in delivering our responsibilities under the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA). Your work will be varied and rewarding, including:

• processing resource consent applications
• providing advice and guidance on natural resource management
• undertaking compliance inspections and monitoring activities
• auditing self-monitoring data and reports
• responding to environmental incidents, carrying out investigations and enforcement action
• working collaboratively with landowners, industry, iwi, community groups and stakeholders

You will be adept at balancing the interests of a diverse range of customers while developing practical and effective solutions to complex resource management issues.

You will also be a strong communicator with excellent relationship-building skills and a collaborative, solutions-focused approach.

Skills and experience required

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Practical experience working within the RMA and planning disciplines.
• Experience gained within local government, central government, consulting, industry, iwi, community organisations or other regulatory environments.
• A solutions-focused and collaborative working style, with experience mentoring and sharing your ideas and expertise with others.
• Excellent interpersonal, engagement and relationship management skills.
• Resilience, flexibility, and an ability to work with ambiguity and change.
• The ability to manage multiple projects efficiently, to prioritise competing commitments and proactively manage customer expectations.
• An analytical mind to critically review reports, plans and other technical documents, and to suggest improvements to our practices.
• The ability to remain focussed on outcomes during the RMA process.
• An understanding of how to influence behaviour change.
• A proven track record of successfully delivering to customers.

To be considered for appointment at Senior Resource Advisor level, you will bring at least five years' relevant experience in a local government or regulatory environment, ideally within regional consenting and compliance. You will also demonstrate strong technical capability, leadership skills, effective communication, and experience mentoring and supporting others.

What we offer

• Work to suit your life and whānau with our flexible working policy.
• We'll encourage you to grow and prosper with a range of learning and development opportunities, internal secondments and career progression.
• Your wellbeing is our priority - we'll provide medical and trauma insurance support through our employee assistance programme, including Rongoā Māori partner providers, generous annual leave, along with Tangihanga leave and support.
• We want you to have a sense of belonging, where you can reflect your personal and cultural identity in the way that you work.
• Social clubs, staff networks and a friendly and inclusive culture.
• Great working environments across our beautiful region.

Come help treasure and grow our rohe together

Our rohe and its lands, waterways, animals, plants and people can only grow stronger if they are nurtured.

To join our team is to step up and commit to playing an active part in this important mahi. That means restoring nature, connecting people and places, reducing environmental impacts and helping this rohe and its people prosper.

We are part of a collective movement alongside mana whenua and community members whose hopes for the future of this region are just as high as your own.

Our efforts across environmental management, public transport, flood protection, regional parks and water supply are interconnected and integral to treasuring our rohe and growing our future.

How to apply

Greater Wellington is proud to be a member of Te Uru Tāngata Centre for Workplace Inclusion. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and welcome the unique talent and experience you will bring to our team.

We are passionate about ensuring our recruitment processes are fair and equitable. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs or adjustments that need to be made so we can offer a recruitment process that is more accessible to you.

Click on the Apply link to view the position description and to apply for the role with a cover letter and CV. All applicants will be required to provide proof of their eligibility to work in New Zealand as we are unable to provide sponsorship for this position.

For further information, please contact Dayna Calkin at Sign in to view email or Helene Anderson at [email protected]

Applications close: 5.00pm, Thursday, 24 September 2026. However, we will be shortlisting applications as they come in and will interview as soon as possible to secure the right person.

Greater Wellington is an accredited Living Wage Employer. We're committed to making sure our people, including people in our supply chain, earn enough to meet life's basic needs, support their whānau, and participate fully in their communities.

The total remuneration for these positions, including all benefits, is:

Resource Advisor: $79,995 - $119,993, with a midpoint of $99,994

Senior Resource Advisor: $99,557 - $149,336, with a midpoint of $124,446

Starting remuneration will depend on the skills and experience of the successful applicant.

Agency applications won't be considered at this time.