Delivery Lead

Ratonga Matihiko | Digital Services

Located in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand
- Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
- Permanent position
- Generous annual leave provisions and professional development opportunities
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**Āu Mahi | What You Will Do**
You're an experienced delivery professional who thrives on leading complex initiatives from concept to completion. With a strong background in agile project management and a solid understanding of IT environments and the software development lifecycle, you know how to keep projects on track and teams focused on outcomes. You're a confident communicator and problem solver who builds strong relationships with stakeholders, guiding them through change and ensuring delivery goals are met. Your ability to plan effectively, manage risk, and support your team to overcome challenges means you're trusted to deliver results in fast-paced and dynamic environments. If you enjoy driving successful outcomes and making a real impact across digital products and platforms, this role is for you.

**Mōu | Who You Are**
You will be an experienced digital delivery professional with at 7+ years experience in IT project or programme delivery, as well as have:

- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Strong understanding of IT environments and the software development lifecycle
- Proven sucess in the delivery of IT business change projects/programmes using agile or hybrid methodologies
- A high degree of Commercial and Financial literacy to manage budgets, forecasts and associated processes.
- Bachelor's degree (NZQA Level 7)
- Project management certification (e.g. PMP, PRINCE2, SCRUM, SaFE)
- An alignment with our organisation's values and culture, promoting a positive and inclusive work environment.

**Mahi Ngātahi | Who You Will Work With**
Building world-class digital capability is crucial to the University of Canterbury's ongoing success. Digital Services is a large team, striving to provide a modern dynamic foundation from which the University (UC) can explore new business models and ways of working. Digital will transform how we work, behave, and the expectations of the communities we service

**Ngā Painga o UC | Why UC**
Ngā Uara | Our Values of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tiakitanga guide our decisions and behaviour and provide a roadmap for how we do things at UC, affirming our commitment to pastoral care and support for our ākonga and staff. They challenge and inspire us to be the best we can, and make UC a great place to work and study. For more info on Ngā Uara | Our Values visit us here.

We are committed to accessible higher education, service to the community and the encouragement of talent without barriers of distance, wealth, class, gender or ethnicity. The University explicitly aims to produce graduates and support staff who are engaged with their communities, empowered to act for good and determined to make a difference in the world.

**The closing date for this position is: 26/08/2025 (midnight, NZ time)**:
**Pēhea te tono mai | How You Apply**

Applications for this position must be submitted via our careers website and should include a cover letter and resume.

You must have Aotearoa New Zealand or Australian citizenship/permanent residency or hold a valid NZ work visa to be considered for this role.

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**Job Details**:

- Reference #
- 28570
- Posted on
- 13 Aug 2025
- Closes on
- 26 Aug 2025 23:55
- Location(s)
- Christchurch
- Expertise
- Information Technology
- Job level(s)
- Experienced
- Work type(s)
- Continuing (Permanent) full-time