Manager Regulatory Cost Recovery

4 weeks ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

Join us to help shape the regulatory cost recovery and funding stewardship function here at Waka Kotahi.
- Use your influencing skills to ensure teams across Waka Kotahi understand the principles of funding stewardship and cost recovery and their thoughts and actions are guided by the policies and advice provided by your team.
- Opportunity to work in a complex, challenging and rewarding environment that impacts all New Zealanders.

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity We have an exciting opportunity for a leader to join Regulatory Services and build a team that will develop and implement robust cost recovery policies and practices. In this role you will establish the regulatory cost recovery team at Waka Kotahi and lead the development and alignment of operational policies, standards, and processes that set Waka Kotahi up to be a great regulatory funding steward. This includes promoting awareness of when and how the cost recovery team can support decision makers as well as maintaining the pricing tools, financial models, and leading future fees and charges reviews.The creation and maintenance of a safe, empowering and enabling environment and culture that aligns with our organisational strategy, Te kāpehu, and our regulatory strategy, Tū ake, tū māia, is key to the team's success.Accountabilities for this role include:

- Leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of the cost recovery and pricing policies
- Influencing and supporting senior decision-makers to use cost recovery both as a regulatory tool and to enable performance improvement
- Delivering future cost recovery reviews and product or service reviews as required, including ensuring the team has the right level of capability and resources to successfully deliver
- A proven track record of leading and building highly engaged teams with a safe, trusting, and enabling culture, managing performance, and supporting people to succeed.
- Ability to influence, build credibility and collaborate across a range of stakeholders to bring them along on a journey.
- Proven situational, organisational and political nous.
- Demonstrated experience in high level strategic, analytical, and conceptual thinking in a complex environment.
- Ability to think at a national and system-wide level and translate it into future-focused deliverables and make good risk-based decisions.
- Proven experience in leading and developing successful future focused changes to inform and guide system change.
- Previous experience in cost recovery/financial stewardship, policy/operational policy is preferred but not required.
- Previous experience of local and/or central government is preferred but not required.

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.



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