Deployment Manager

**Deployment Manager (PPS), it starts with you**
- **Based at PNHQ**:

- **Grade 21**:

- **Police Employee/ Officer of Constable**:

- **2-Years Fixed Term**:

- **JR**4586223**

**Mō te tūnga | About the role**

The Police Prosecution Service (PPS) is looking for a talented and highly motivated individual to take up this key leadership role as the Deployment Manager (PPS). This is an exciting new position that offers ample opportunity to innovate and drive change, ensuring that PPS is fit for purpose now and in the future.

You will be joining PPS at the start of an exciting period; with a significant injection of new funding and the Prosecutions Uplift Programme established to support this, PPS is recruiting new staff, establishing new roles and looking to develop new ways of working - all with the goal of ensuring our national team provides great prosecution services to our community and are well supported to do a great job. We are pleased to be able to use this funding to recruit a substantial number of additional staff to support our hardworking team. We will be streamlining and creating consistency in our practices, and introducing greater flexibility into our resourcing so we can inject extra support into offices when work demands change. We want to enhance PPS systems and policies so that our staff are supported and are proud to be a part of the PPS whanau. And the Deployment Manager will be instrumental in this

The National Deployment Manager (PPS) will play a lead role in helping PPS perform to its full potential. In this role, you will be responsible for the deployment of our prosecutorial staff across Aotearoa. You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and imbedding a new deployment model to enable effective and efficient deployment decisions to be made. Your work will ensure our staff are well prepared and able to manage prosecutions through to appropriate and timely resolutions. With the support of our two Practice Managers, you will also identify and oversee the recruitment of new staff to ensure PPS is appropriately resourced to provide the excellent prosecutions service that New Zealanders expect and deserve.

This role will require you to be a collaborative and innovative leader working with our expert prosecutorial staff and justice sector partners to understand demand, and to plan and direct resources in accordance with good deployment practice. You will implement effective solutions to complex deployment challenges, always looking for continuous improvement opportunities. This will make you a key member of the PPS Leadership Team.

Key Accountabilities:

- Manaakitanga - experienced in building and promoting effective relationships across a large and diverse workgroup.
- Improvement Focused
- Change champion
- a positive communicator, skilled in leading change.
- Systems thinker
- astute in understanding systems and capable of identifying opportunities for system changes and successfully testing and delivering a product that reflects that rigorous analysis

**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.

You will have the following skills and competencies:

- Proven experience as an effective leader who can lead and implement organisational change.
- Proven relationship management skills to quickly build trust with internal and external partners, and influence and maintain strong, positive relationships.
- Experience and proven success in leading and managing resourcing and delivery in a complex environment.
- Proven ability to analyse complex problems, identify opportunities for improvement, develop and implement solutions and proactively share innovative approaches.
- An agile leader who effectively manages changing priorities and competing demands, and implements strategies to mitigate service delivery risk.

This role is set at the
**Leader/Manager** level. This means your key purpose is “to lead tactics for Our Business and enable people to deliver them”.

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**Mo tatou | 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.

**Whakaritenga motuhake | Special requirements**

For constabulary applicants:

- Current Inspector level CPK, and either,
- Undertake to engage in a leadership programm