Senior Change Manager Kaiwhakahaere Panonitanga Matua

**Kaiwhakahaere Panonitanga Matua | Senior Change Manager (fixed-term to 30 June 2026)**

Join an organisation contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.
- Opportunity to use your change management experience to support programmes and projects to deliver successfully
- Exciting delivery-focused team
- Christchurch or Wellington based position supported by an Enterprise Portfolio Office that adapts and responds to the organisation needs.

**About Us | Ko mātou**

Stats NZ | Tatauranga Aotearoa is a Central Government employer of 1200+ people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.

**What's in it for you? | Ngā hua ka riro ki a koe**

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about the **Way We Work** at Stats NZ and also check out our benefits. We want working for usto work for you

**Starting salary: Starting salary: $118,052 - $158,264 + superannuation**

Other benefits of joining our Stats whānau include:

- An environment where we can all be leaders, where your ideas and input are encouraged
- 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
- City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs
- State of the art, 6-star green building in Wellington

**The role | Te tūnga**

We have several fixed term opportunities for experienced Senior Change Managers to join our change management practice within the Enterprise Portfolio Office. This is a fixed term position to 30 June 2026, based in our Christchurch or Wellington offices.

You'll be accountable for the planning and delivery of change management activities including stakeholder management and communications activities such as:

- Conduct impact analysis, assess change readiness, and identify key stakeholders. Development and execution of change management processes and activities across all types of change including system/technical, business, cultural and/or behavioural change.
- Drive the identification of key engagement requirements (both internally and externally) as well as the timelines and processes to enable this.
- Ensure that the impacts of change are understood and communicated effectively to stakeholders and staff, s that our change initiatives 'land well' with end users
- Enable the design, development, delivery, and management of key communications.
- Provide input, document requirements, and support the design and delivery of training courses and collateral.
- Support and engage senior leaders and successfully implement change from identification through to embedding and sustaining the change in our business.
- Integrate change management activities into project plans and Azure Dev Ops boards.
- Collate feedback on behalf of the business to monitor progress, impact, and satisfaction of improvements.

**What you bring | Nōu te rourou**

We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and lifting our cultural capability. You don't need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us.

You will be highly organised, self -managing, able to work independently and as part of a cross functional team. You will be familiar with techniques and frameworks of your discipline and comfortable delivering results in a high paced environment.

We are looking for a motivated individual with the following in your cover letter and CV:

- Your experience in your craft - ideally, a proven track record of 4+ years in a change manager role across a wide range of programmes/projects and implementation mechanisms.
- Examples of your strong experience working with leaders and people at all levels of the organisation in a high-change environment.
- Information about your knowledge and experience, or desire to learn and build knowledge and experience of Te Tiriti, Tikanga, Te Reo and Te Ao Māori, and engagement with Māori.
- Examples of where you've demonstrated or encouraged diversity and inclusion in and/or outside of work.
- Demonstration of your understanding of the machinery of government and related processes and procedures
- Role-specific training - relevant certification in change management (e.g. Prosci, CMI accreditation, APMG) desirable.

**_ You must have the right to live and work in Aotearoa New Zealand. Background and various pre-employment checks are part of our recruitment process._**

**Note to Recruitment Agencies**: unsolicited CVs will not be accepted.
- Reference #
- 15412
- Posted on
- 18 Jun 2025
- Closes on
- 01 Jul 2025 23:55
- Location(s)