Change Manager

6 months ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Change Manager
- Based at Police National Headquarters
- Police Employee
- Fixed term - Full Time
- NAV
- JR 4804166

E tῡ ki te kei o te waka, kia pakia koe e ngā ngaru o te wā.
Stand at the stern of the canoe and feel the spray of the future biting at your face

Mō te tūnga | About the role

As a Change Manager within the Transformation and Change team, you will be a critical part of achieving the success of significant initiatives impacting our NZ Police, their partners, and the public. It is a hands on, delivery role which guides and influences change through the project delivery lifecycle in order to ensure business readiness and the successful delivery of NZ Police business outcomes.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Develop, own, and manage key change management artefacts
- Own relationships and engagement with key stakeholders
- Undertake change impact assessments, drawing conclusions from the analysis and identifying the change interventions required
- Coordinate and oversee any training collateral and communications
- Develop and lead change readiness assessments
- Develop transition plans and activities to embed the process and system changes in the business
- Measure change effectiveness and identifying learnings across the work stream
- Align work stream change plans and products to wider programme change initiatives

He aha taau e kawe mai | What you’ll bring

Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.

Whakaritenga motuhake | Special requirements
- Previous experience as a change professional delivering people, process, policy or technology change is required. Qualifications such as PROSCI, APMG, or CMI is desirable.

This role is set at Leader/Manager level, this means your key purpose is “to lead tactics for Our Business and enable people to deliver them”.

To view the position description for this role please copy and paste this link into a new browser:
Security Clearance Requirements

To be eligible for this role, you may be asked to obtain and maintain a CONFIDENTIAL national security clearance.
The minimum criteria for this level of national security clearance is:
NZ Citizen who has resided continuously in NZ for the last 10 years, or:

- A Permanent Resident who has resided continuously in NZ for the last 10 years, or
- A citizen of or has resided continuously in one or more of the following countries for the last 10 years: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, or United States of America, and has a background that can be verified by the NZSIS. Use this online tool to self-check your eligibility for a security clearance. Please note that this tool is not part of the formal security clearance process:
Mo tātou | About us

New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It works in partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, and other public sector agencies towards the vision of making New Zealand the safest country. Police is the government’s largest front-line response agency with around 15,000 staff in large and small communities all over New Zealand and in liaison and policing development roles overseas.
Your development is highly valued at NZ Police. Our employees enjoy significant investment in their development not only at an individual level, but also at the team and community of practice level. We work hard to match you with work that will both play to your strengths and challenge you in new ways.

The work you’ll be engaged in is real, tangible work that directly benefits our frontline and communities. Taken all together, this means we can offer you career path opportunities to progress in your chosen profession and become a more well-rounded, experienced leader, with opportunities across the range of work we support.

To view more detailed information about our recruitment process along with further details about requirements please click below link:
Applicant Information Pack (External)

Utu ā-tau | Salary

This position is covered by a collective agreement and salary will commence at $130,730 dependent on skills and experience relevant to the role.


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