Practice Lead

5 months ago


Upper Hutt, 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.

Practice Lead - ICT Projects & Programmes, it starts with you
- Based at Police College Porirua or National Headquarters, Wellington
- Grade 21
- Police Employee
- 12 Month Fixed Term - Full time
- JR 4592230

Mō te tūnga | About the role
The purpose of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) group is to work in partnership with the rest of the organisation to provide digital technology and communications solutions that support excellence in policing and service delivery and enable Police’s strategic ambitions.
With a primary hub in Wellington, and a presence throughout the country, we deliver new and enhanced solutions directly and through specialist vendor partnerships. We provide expert advice on how technology can be leveraged to support Police’s strategies and turn concepts into reality through collaborative development.
The Practice Lead - ICT Projects and Programmes is a member of the wider ICT Centres of Expertise Group, specifically in the ICT Projects and Programme Management Practice. This Practice provides the delivery of programme and project management services and functions across ICT. Delivery of these services is attained through a combination of in
- house and outsourced contracts, strong external relationships, and an ability to create and implement fit for purpose processes and practices that achieve the right balance between speed to market, cost, quality and scope.
The Practice Lead will lead and manage a team of Project Managers. They are responsible for supporting the Practice Manager to lead and build Centre of Expertise teams; continuously improve centre of expertise frameworks, standards, processes and toolsets; and aligning and integrating with other Centres of Expertise teams.
The Practice Lead operates as the primary people leader for those members of the Centre of Expertise, providing pastoral care, technical capability development, performance feedback, mentoring team members, overseeing their workloads, and ensuring that they are meeting the delivery requirements within their product teams.
They will work in partnership with Product Managers and Product Owners, as well as Programme Managers, ensuring they are being provided with both the capacity and capability they require to meet the requirements of their product roadmaps.
They will support the Practice Manager - ICT Projects and Programmes in ensuring the tools and ways of working of the Centre of Expertise remain current and fit-for-purpose for New Zealand Police.

Key Accountabilities
- Leads, mentors, and monitors the performance of the team, ensuring appropriate career development and training opportunities are available.
- Assigns appropriate resource with sufficient expertise to meet the business requirements in respect to project management.
- Ensures the Project and Programme Management Practice continues to evolve to follow industry best practice.
- Ensures continuous service improvement to ICT project management processes and services to increase efficiency and cost effectiveness.

He aha taau e kawe mai | What you’ll bring
Being part of the Police whānau is about being our best to ensure our communities are safe and feel safe. Our Core Competencies provide a shared understanding of the behaviours, leadership and technical competence required for success at each level of Police. 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.

**To be successful in this role you will require the following**:

- Team management experience.
- Experience in, or a strong understanding of project management methodologies, including Agile delivery methods.
- Able to communicate effectively with senior leaders within the organisation and key stakeholders.
- Have effective collaboration skills coupled with critical thinking and sound judgement.
- Have strong attention to detail for reviewing purposes.
- Have relationship management skills with the ability to quickly build trust and maintain strong positive connections.
- Have strong communication skills to present information in a clear and concise manner.

This role is set at Strategic Leader level, this means your key purpose is “to lead the strategy, Our Business, and enable our people to deliver i



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