Conservation Department To Lose 102 Support Jobs
The Department of Conservation has told its 650 support staff that it will be looking to shed 102 jobs in the coming months.
Twenty percent of the Department’s existing 350 science and technical roles will be lost. DOC says the move comes as part of on-going steps to re-organise the department’s work to better direct resources to its conservation work in the field.
The jobs to be shed will come from its support functions in DOC’s National Office in Wellington and its eleven regional conservancy offices.
DOC says it will be working with staff and their unions to identify exactly what positions will be affected over the next three months and the positions are expected to be dis-established towards the end of the year.
Posted: 24/06/2011