Practice Lead Business Analysis

2 weeks ago

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time
Lead our EPMO's Business Analysis capability to greater heights

  • Wellington, The Terrace
  • Permanent
Create a vision for Business Analysis excellence within Oranga Tamariki

The Enterprise Portfolio Management Office for Oranga Tamariki is a critical enabler for delivering better outcomes for tamariki in our care.

If you want to work for an organisation with an unbeatable mission, that is serious about delivering better outcomes for children and young people and you're a leader who can inspire others to greater heights, then this opportunity may be the challenge you're looking for.

The Practice Lead, Business Analysis reports to the Manager, Project Capability and is the leader responsible for our Business Analysis capability within the EPMO.

This includes ensuring our kaimahi are coached, led, guided and supported to successfully deliver quality business analysis outcomes and become better BAs through development and training.

This team is a critical part of our Project Capability team and as the Practice Lead for this team, you need to articulate a vision for how you will create a culture of high performance, lift our technical capabilities and lead the team in a way that ensures our organisation's priorities are met and delivered.

Mō mātou | About us
Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children has a commitment to putting tamariki and rangatahi at the heart of what we do.

In our work, we aim to demonstrate these values:

  • We put Tamariki first
  • We believe Aroha is vital
  • We respect the Mana of people
  • We are Tika and Pono
  • We value Whakapapa
  • We recognise that Oranga is a journey
We are committed to ensuring that New Zealand is the best place in the world to be a child.

We are also committed to ensuring Oranga Tamariki partners with hapū, iwi and Māori organisations to find appropriate solutions for tamariki in need.

Mō te tūnga | About the role

The Practice Lead, Business Analysis, is an amazing opportunity for someone who can clearly demonstrate their technical skills and experience, but also has highly developed relationship and customer focus skills and is a natural collaborator.

This role is heavily focused on cultivating a culture of high performance, building a community of skilled project professionals that lifts our capabilities and responding to the needs and strategic drivers of the organisation.

Ngā pūmanawatanga ōu | What you will bring

Key requirements of the role include:

  • Lead their people in working collaboratively across Oranga Tamariki.
  • Coach and guide Business Analysts on up to date and modern business analysis techniques and frameworks, using practical, demonstrated experience.
  • Develop and maintain uptodate view of business analysis skills and capability across the practice, aligning with the requirements of the organisation and proactively identifying and addressing capability or skill gaps.
  • Onboarding of new business analysis resource to ensure awareness and understanding of business analysis practice requirements.
  • Provide resource management for the centralised pool of Business Analysts, including allocation and utilisation.
  • Work with the project delivery community to define resourcing and skill requirements and provide assistance matching resource needs with internal or external capability.
  • Ensure our business analysis professionals have the appropriate skills, knowledge, and experience to deliver the required work and expected results, including providing coaching, mentoring and professional development opportunities as identified through regular performance conversations, the business analysis career progression framework and annual performance reviews.
  • Understanding and appreciation of crosscultural practices in particular; knowledge of tikanga Māori, and Pacific peoples' culture
Nōu te rourou | What's in it for you
Oranga Tamariki offer an impartial remuneration package, that offers progression annually for experience through tenure. Annual remuneration for this position starts between $142,728 and $177,410 dependent on experience.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to Apply


If you are interested in any of our vacancies, please ensure that you make yourself familiar with our code of conduct as it sets out our expectations for our kaimahi and requires you to present at work free from the influences of both drugs and alcohol.

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