Director - Employment Relations

3 weeks ago

Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Police Full time

**Director: Employment Relations - it starts with you**
- **Based at PNHQ**:

- **Band L**:

- **Permanent**:

- **Nationally Advertised Vacancy**:

- **JR 4417991**

**About the role**

An important and significant opportunity exists to join New Zealand Police and the Employment Relations (ER) Team as the Director of ER.

This is a broad and critical organisational role. The Director ER is responsible for three key functions, which impact in some way on all 15,000 of our people. These include:

- Resolving employment challenges in a holistic, people centric way through our _Employment Resolutions Service, Early Intervention and Kia Tū _functions.
- Leading our industrial strategy, policy and workplace reforms (including taking a strategic approach to collective bargaining and our remuneration system), so that our work and employee terms and conditions support a modern policing service, through our _Industrial Relations Service and Remuneration Team _
- Providing robust, effective and timely legal advice on challenging and complex employment issues through our _Employment Legal Service._

ER is a high-performing Team. We’re looking for an employment relations expert with credibility and proficiency in the sector, who has a track record in people leadership and lifting the capability of Team’s you’ve led. You’ll thrive in working in a large operational organisation, creating clarity from complexity and be experienced in providing strategic employment relations advice to senior leaders and executive teams.

You will bring an enterprise mindset and a ‘can do’ attitude to support the strategic direction of the Team to ensure it can deliver on the current and future needs of the Police Executive and wider organisation. Most importantly, you’ll live our values and role model the type of culture and leadership we want our whole organisation to achieve.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Lead the delivery of holistic, people-centric employment resolution services.
- Lead the development of an industrial strategy, workplace reforms and terms and conditions (including collective bargaining and remuneration design) that support a modern police workforce, and that value the people, culture and leadership transformation we’re looking for.
- Lead the provision of confidential, timely and effective employment relations and legal advice to senior leaders and the Executive.
- Ensure robust systems, frameworks, policies and processes are in place to support delivery of timely, effective and efficient employment related legal advice and services.
- Act as a conduit for relationship management with unions.
- Work effectively with People Operations and Conduct and Integrity to provide a collaborative and cohesive service, with clearly delineated roles and responsibilities.

**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.
- **Communication**:Demonstrating leadership impact through communicating with influence and purpose, across Police and externally with key partners and external agencies.
- **Leadership**: leading through the PHPF and the set-enable-and expect framework. Driving a positive and high performing culture.
- **Delivery**:demonstrating achievement drive, optimism & delivery focus to make things happen & to achieve ambitious shared outcomes.
- **System stewardship**: thinking and working strategically; connecting and collaborating with internal and external partners to drive shared outcomes.
- **Financial management**: having the skills to make strategic financial decisions that delivery results within budget and on time.
- **Manaakitanga**:You prioritise the care of your people; and show determination, girt and courage** **when the going gets tough.****:

- **Cultural confidence**:You understand the importance of Crown Māori relationships, you are committed to growing your own cultural competence

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 it”.

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**About us**

Our mission is to prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing. Our vision is to be the safest country. Our purpose is to ensure everybody can be safe and feel safe.

**Technical experience**
- Applicants for this role must have a law degree and be able to obtain and hold a Practicing Certificate, without the need t

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