Portfolio Advisor

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 a trusted advisor with a passion for building delivery capability and driving best practice. With experience in portfolio or programme governance, agile ways of working, and stakeholder engagement, you thrive on supporting teams to deliver effectively and efficiently. You have a talent for translating complex delivery frameworks into practical guidance, reviewing documentation with a critical eye, and facilitating planning cycles that bring teams together around shared priorities. Your proactive approach, strong relationship skills, and attention to detail make you a go-to person for delivery advice and continuous improvement. In this role you will:

- Provide expert guidance on Digital Services' delivery frameworks to practitioners, sponsors, and governance boards.
- Review and provide feedback on project documentation including briefs, business cases, and closure reports.
- Lead the Quarterly Planning cycle and support agile planning events across Digital Services.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery management frameworks, templates, and standards.
- Perform quality and health checks across the delivery portfolio and support reporting processes.
- Assist in financial administration, including budget monitoring, P-card processing, and forecasting.
- Manage delivery information systems and ensure data accuracy and security.
- Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and act as a 'go to' advisor for delivery practices.

If you enjoy enabling others to succeed, improving processes, and shaping how delivery happens across a large and dynamic digital environment, this is the role for you.

**Mōu | Who You Are**
You will be an experienced portfolio professional with at least 5 years' working in a PMO running a structured project delivery framework, as well as have:

- Strong knowledge of project, programme, and portfolio management frameworks and governance.
- Excellent relationship management and influencing skills with stakeholders at all levels.
- A Bachelor's degree in Commerce or an IT-related field (NZQA Level 7)
- A professional certification in portfolio or project management is highly desirable
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (including pivot tables, data functions), and experience with SharePoint is desirable.
- 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: 24 August 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 #
- 28560
- Posted on
- 11 Aug 2025
- Closes on
- 24 Aug 2025 23:55
- Location(s)
- Christchurch
- Expertise
- Information Technology
- Job level(s)
- Experienced
- Work type(s)
- Continuing (Permanent) full-time