Deputy Chief Executive

2 weeks ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time
Deputy Chief Executive - Policy, Data and Insights

  • Senior leadership role with real impact in our agency and across the social sector
  • Lead delivery of quality advice and insights on interesting and important issues of the day
  • Work in a small agency where you can have real work life balance and your development will be supported
About you

Are you an experienced senior leader who wants to influence the wellbeing of Aotearoa? Are you strategic, innovative and delivery focused? Can you build strong relationships with a range of stakeholders? This could be the role for you.

We are looking for a smart, inquisitive and agile leader to join us to help us deliver our exciting work programme.

You'll have strong people leadership experience and a passion for the social sector.

About the role

As a member of our Executive Leadership Team you'll be collaborating to strategically lead the agency and build a strong and inclusive culture.

You'll lead high performing teams of specialists to deliver quality policy advice, insights, tools and practices for the social sector to improve outcomes for New Zealanders.

You'll be trusted to work autonomously to deliver our ambitious and interesting work programme, with an eye for continuous improvement.

You'll work collectively alongside other social sector policy and data teams to deliver advice that delivers long term, sustainable improvements for New Zealanders.

And lastly, you will build strong relationships with our key stakeholders across government, NGOs, Iwi, and data organisations.

Who are we?

What we are looking for:

To be successful you'll have:

  • Senior leadership experience developing and implementing organisational strategy.
  • Significant experience in policy and/or data, with a deep understanding of the role data, research and evaluation, analytics and tools can play in informing decisions and policy.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading high performing multidisciplinary teams in environments with diverse stakeholders, preferably in the social sector.
  • Demonstrated experience in organisational leadership at a senior level, including strategy, team management, financial management and project management.
  • Proven experience managing complex stakeholder partnerships/relationships at a senior level.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of meeting and supporting the obligations and intent of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Competency with Te Ao Māori and Te Reo Māori is desirable.
  • Political acumen and an ability to work with Ministers.
We know that no one will meet every single requirement for the role.

If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.

We are committed to having a safe and inclusive workplace and we value the diversity everyone brings. We are proud to have achieved the Rainbow Tick and the Domestic Violence Free Tick.

Position Description

How to apply
We look forward to hearing from you.

Closing date:
Sunday 19 February 2023

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