Coordination Practice Lead

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead a critical function with a critical mission?
- Wellington, The Terrace
- Permanent

Our Project and Programme Coordinators are at the centre of our delivery and are critical to helping it run smoothly
The Enterprise Portfolio Management Office for Oranga Tamariki is a critical enabler for delivering better outcomes for tamariki in our care. If you want to work for an organisation with an unbeatable mission, that is serious about delivering better outcomes for children and young people and you're a leader who can inspire others to greater heights, then this opportunity may be the challenge you're looking for.
The Practice Lead, Coordination reports to the Manager, Project Capability and is the leader responsible for our Project and programme capability within the EPMO. This includes ensuring our Coordinators are coached, led, guided and supported to work with our Project and Programme Managers to successfully deliver our objectives.
As a critical part of our delivery team, the Coordination Practice is a key enabler of good delivery. Therefore, we are looking for a natural leader to guide, support and develop or coordinators and ensure they are set up to be the best they can be every day.

Mō mātou | About us
Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children has a commitment to putting tamariki and rangatahi at the heart of what we do. In our work, we aim to demonstrate these values:

- We put Tamariki first
- We believe Aroha is vital
- We respect the Mana of people
- We are Tika and Pono
- We value Whakapapa
- We recognise that Oranga is a journey

We are committed to ensuring that New Zealand is the best place in the world to be a child. We are also committed to ensuring Oranga Tamariki partners with hapū, iwi and Māori organisations to find appropriate solutions for tamariki in need.

Mō te tūnga | About the role
The Practice Lead, Coordination will require you to work closely with your Practice Lead colleagues, the business and your team to ensure we are meeting the needs of our stakeholders and developing our kaimahi.
This role is heavily focused on cultivating a culture of high performance, building a community of skilled project professionals that lifts our capabilities and responding to the needs and strategic drivers of the organisation.

Ngā pūmanawatanga ōu | What you will bring

**Key requirements of the role include**:

- Lead their people in working collaboratively across Oranga Tamariki.
- Develop and maintain up-to-date view of project / programme coordination skills and capability across the practice, aligning with the requirements of the portfolio and proactively identifying and addressing capability or skill gaps.
- Onboarding of new project / programme coordination kaimahi to ensure awareness and understanding of project and practice requirements.
- Provide resource management to the portfolio for the centralised pool of Intermediate and Senior Project / Programme Coordinators, including allocation and utilisation.
- Work with the project delivery community to define resourcing and skill requirements and provide assistance matching resource needs with internal or external capability.
- Ensure our project / programme coordination kaimahi have the appropriate skills, knowledge, and experience to deliver the required work including providing coaching, mentoring, professional development opportunities and performance management.
- Understanding and appreciation of cross-cultural practices in particular; knowledge of tikanga Māori, and Pacific peoples' culture

Nōu te rourou | What's in it for you
Oranga Tamariki offer an impartial remuneration package, that offers progression annually for experience through tenure. Annual remuneration for this position starts between $122,258 and $151,822 dependent on experience.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to Apply

If you are interested in any of our vacancies, please ensure that you make yourself familiar with our code of conduct as it sets out our expectations for our kaimahi and requires you to present at work free from the influences of both drugs and alcohol.