TARIT: Job Vacancy
Te Arawa Iwi River Trust (TARIT) are looking for a Project Administrator to ensure the smooth running of their project activities, including supporting the project kaimahi with administrative tasks.
Position: Project Administrator
Contract: Fixed-term, September 2023-May 2025 (~30hrs/week)
The Project Administrator is responsible for the following:
• Support the Pou Mātauranga Wai Māori with all administrative tasks
• Co-ordinate project activities and operations efficiently
• Adherence to company policies
• Manage the diary and agenda, travel arrangements for the project team
• Track equipment and order project supplies
• Invoice input into Xero for signoff
• Prepare presentations
• Record meeting minutes
• Promote process improvements.
• Support the TARIT administrator as required
Skills required for the role:
• Taiao Project Administration
• Highly detail-oriented
• Extremely organised, reliable and effective communicator (written and oral)
• Resourceful problem-solver
• Strong relationship builder
• Process and deadline oriented
• An understanding of te reo and tikanga Māori
• Business Administration qualification (desired)
• Experience using Xero and other business-related software
If you'd like to be part of a small but innovative team, then please send your CV and cover letter to admin@tarit.co.nz
Applications close 12.00pm Friday 8th September, 2023.
River Iwi Internship Programme 2023
This is a paid internship at $26.00 per hour.
Applicants must have the right to work in New Zealand and be available to work in Wellington (relocation at own cost) from 20 November 2023 - 9 February 2024.
Rā Katinga | Applications close: Sunday 13th August 2023 @ 5pm
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Te Manatū mo te Taiao are inviting uri from Waikato-Waipa to apply for an intern role from 20 November 2023 to 09 February 2024. Internships are offered annually to those registered, or whakapapa, to at least one of the following River Iwi as part of the Treaty of Waitangi settlement commitments with the Crown. Tūhourangi uri come under TARIT:
Te Arawa River Iwi (TARIT; one intern) Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whaoa, Ngāti Kearoa-Ngāti Tuarā, Tuhourangi-Ngāti Wāhiao
For internship queries email: Vacancy@mfe.govt.nz
For River Iwi registration queries contact: Te Arawa River Iwi Trust (TARIT) - admin@tarit.co.nz
Please Note: Iwi will make the intern selection and provide this information to MfE.
Advisor: Mātauranga Maori Freshwater
The Advisor: Mātauranga Maori Freshwater & Cultural Health Indicator/Monitor will build the capacity and capability of the Te Arawa River Iwi Trust (TARIT) and Affiliates’ Environmental Teams’ to participate in making decisions for freshwater management in the TARIT rohe.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Hold Wananga with at least 20 Affiliate members to develop Matauranga tools, Maori based indicators and a water monitoring framework
Implement and test Matauranga Maori tools, Maori based indicators and other freshwater management tools (waiora application with the mauriometer) to monitor and quantify water quality habitat use
Hold Wananga with at least 20 Affiliate members on the application and testing of the Matauranga tools with freshwater management practises
Hold workshops with the Waikato River Authority and Waikato Regional Council to present and explain the project and intended outcomes
Hold a Wananga with at least 20 Affiliate members to discuss and develop a Plan for the protection and restoration of a waterway and how to improve the quality of the water before it enters the Waikato River
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Job Vacancy: Te Arawa River Iwi Trust
Position: Co-ordinator Mātauranga Māori, Freshwater
Reports to: Advisor Mātauranga Māori
Term of Contract Salary: Full Time, 3yrs from start date $50,000 / year
Inquiries: admin@tarit.co.nz OR corey@tuhourangi.iwi.nz
POSITION PURPOSE
To become an active contributor to the reclamation, preservation and revitalisation of mātauranga Māori as an authentic, relevant knowledge system within Tūhourangi-Ngāti Wahiao.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Co-ordinator Mātauranga Māori is responsible for the following:
Support the Advisor to hold a Wānanga with at least 20 Affiliate members to discuss and develop a Plan for the protection and restoration of a waterway and how to improve the quality of the water before it enters the Waikato River.
Support the Advisor to hold wānanga with at least 20 Affiliate members to develop Mātauranga Māori tools, Iwi based indicators and a water monitoring framework.
Support the Advisor to implement and test Mātauranga Māori tools, Iwi-based indicators and other freshwater management tools (e.g. Waiora application with Dr. Kēpa Morgan’s Mauriometer) to monitor and quantify water quality habitat use.
Support Tūhourangi-Ngāti Wahiao in making changes to land-based activities that will improve water quality, protect the water bodies and ecosystems habitat, and to monitor progress on Mahinga Kai and taonga species.
Report and document progress made by Tūhourangi-Ngāti Wahiao on land-based activities that will improve water quality and protect the water bodies, ecosystem habitat and Mahinga Kai and tāonga species.
Conduct monthly water testing and monitoring on the upper catchment of the Waikato River.
Support the Advisor to hold wānanga with at least 20 Affiliate members to test and confirm the protection and restoration of a waterway and the improved water quality before it enters the Waikato River.
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TARIT Waka Tira Hoe Excursion
A warm invitation to interested TTA beneficiaries.
Join us for a three day or part/s of a TARIT Waka Tira Hoe Excursion down the Waikato River.
For details and bookings, please email: admin@tuhourangi.iwi.nz