Peati Tuitama

• Responsible for providing advice and support to kaimahi. Developing and managing relationships with iwi and hapū and key māori organisations to ensure māori interests in the area of petroleum, minerals and energy resources, are integrated into MBIE's core business. A key component of this role is to focus on lifting the knowledge, and understanding of the benefits of positive engagement with māori by working across multiple teams within MBIE and the wider government.

Accountable for the delivery of specialist services in the treatment of risk including:

• Promoting compliance with New Zealand Immigration legislation, ensuring appropriate decision making and mandated action in the event of breaches, detentions and deportations and the management of important issues such as family considerations and supporting legal action in conjunction with other key agencies.
• Providing specialist input and advice to ensure the immigration system is optimised in terms of risk management and the provision of specialist advice and management of complex cases ensuring that assessment and risk are managed at the earliest point in the immigration process.
• Carefully balancing legislative powers with ethical and humanitarian considerations.

• Responsible for the management of the Border Operations teams located at the international airports across New Zealand. Border Operations is a 24 hour 7 day week operation.
• Responsible for the day to day frontline leadership and management of the Border Operations teams, managing the delivery of all border operations activities, developing and maintaining standards at the border.
• Also responsible for building and enhancing the overall capability at the border, to ensure quality and consistency of advice and practices in relation to the teams' work in targeting risk while facilitating visitors at New Zealand's international airports.
• Key relationships with staff in other border agencies, including internationally. External stakeholders in security and law enforcement including Police, NZSIS and Interpol. Airport management companies, airline representatives, staff in Ministers' offices, managers and staff of Border Operations team, managers and staff within CRIS and wider INZ.

• Responsible for engagement with passengers travelling to, through and from New Zealand during a 24-hour 7 day a week operation.
• Making decisions on travel and entry to New Zealand, facilitate genuine travellers and ensure that immigration risks posed by travellers who do not meet entry requirements can be identified and mitigated according to policy and legislation.
• Assessing and interviewing travellers either by phone or in person and gathering information to verify or determine whether a traveller meets entry requirements.
• Ensuring that travellers and airlines comply with immigration law and policy, while balancing any exceptional or compassionate circumstances an individual may have.
• Examining false and fraudulent documents.
• Investigating, gathering and communicating intelligence as appropriate.

• Compliance Officer role is a regulatory role accountable for preventing, detecting and responding to Immigration Act offending.
• Primary focus of the role is determining liability for deportation and deporting individuals who fail to leave New Zealand as set out in immigration regulations and policy.
• Key accountabilities and delivers include: Information assessment, determining course of action or direction investigation, influencing behaviours/effective communication, risk assessment, field work, effective deportation, investigations,

• Airline Liaison Officer's (ALO) enhance borer security by pre-screening travellers at their point of departure to New Zealand. ALO's intercept passengers with doubtful travel documentation or bona fides; build relationships; enhance INZ's profile overseas; support, advise and gather intelligence from a range of stakeholders in managing the entry of travellers to their respective countries as well as facilitate genuine traveller's to New Zealand.
• Relationship management and excellent communications skill is key to a successful ALO assignment.
• Cultural capability and cultural awareness supports the establishment of good relationships and builds trusted partnerships with key stakeholders local and foreign, including our FCC community.

• Making quality decisions that manage information risk and contribute to positive immigration outcomes for New Zealand.
• Providing specialist immigration advice to clients and stakeholders.
• Using judgement to assess and decide visa application through the effective administration of immigration policy and procedures, and in accordance with immigration law.
• Complying with immigration instructions and following the established Standard Operating Procedures.
• Using established interviewing, site visit and assessment techniques to obtain all relevant information to make quality and time decisions.
• Using judgement to prioritise and make quality recommendations or decisions.
• Seeking advice from relevant staff or mangers for quality assurance purposes or where required and in accordance with procedures.
• Provide accurate and timely advice on all immigration law, policy and procedures to clients and third parties in an effective manner.
• Managing client expectations
• Identify and proactively manage, and/or escalate risks regarding processing of visa applications and decisions.

Worked in many roles in the Corporate Affairs workstream with MFAT including offshore assignments as Attache` in Port Moresby (1987-1989), Moscow (1991-1992), Tehran (1992), Jakarta (1993), and Harare (1995-1996).