Senior Change and Transition Manager

7 days ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

**Type**: Permanent Hours: Full time Location: Wellington Business Group: Te Waka Aukaha/Planning, Design and Assurance Branch: Kāwai ki te Iwi / Service Delivery and Operations Salary: $112,555 - $150,868
If you're interested in leading branch-wide engagement and change to deliver and ensure new ways of operating are successfully we want to hear from you
The Service Delivery and Operations Group, Kāwai ki te Iwi has an important role - helping make New Zealand better for New Zealanders.
Every day our team helps thousands of people who call Aotearoa home. We do everything from helping people get a passport or become a citizen, to ensuring communities get the funding they need to thrive. We work with the charities sector to help organisations flourish and make it easier for people to stay safe online.
It's a big job but we have a secret weapon - our people. They are a very precious taonga. We want them to be happy, motivated, informed and committed to making a difference. That's why we're investing in a new team to support our people.
One of the roles is Senior Change and Transition Manager.
We're looking for someone who can provide leadership and oversight of branch-wide engagement, change and transition activities. We are looking for a champion for change, adoption, and benefits realisation so that our change counts.
The right person for this role will have knowledge, extensive experience, and proven abilities to:

- Provide strategic leadership, specialised knowledge and trusted advice (organisational development, change, and transition management principles, frameworks and approaches) in a large, complex organisation.
- Develop, execute, and deliver business-aligned change strategies and plans for all types of change, including technology, business, culture and organisational.
- Understand, adapt and deliver in a complex government operating context / environment.
- Communicate, develop, and manage relationships and expectations with key stakeholders, including senior managers. Be able to make connections and articulate a complex change as a compelling story.
- Work closely with other enabling change capabilities such as communications and engagement; business capability (learning) and organisational development (OD)
- Lead, support and coach kaimahi to create enduring change capabilities and build trust and confidence with the wider department.
- Identify emergent risks, issues, challenges, and mitigations for them using sound judgement. Influence senior leaders to act.
- Provide ad hoc change management and business improvement advice.

In exchange we can offer a competitive salary, a genuinely supportive work environment, variety, challenge and the chance to develop your career.
If this sounds like you, get in touch.

Working at the Department of Internal Affairs, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of New Zealanders.



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