Release Manager

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes. We're working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver 'Our Business' and achieve long-term change. **Release Manager** - **Based at**Royal New Zealand Police College** - **Band - J**: - **Police Employee** - **Permanent** - **NAV** - **JR5316153** **E tu ki te kei o te waka, kia pakia koe e nga ngaru o te wa.** - Stand at the stern of the canoe and feel the spray of the future biting at your face _ **Mo te tunga | About the role** The Release Manager is responsible for protecting the integrity of the Police production environment by careful and effective planning, scheduling, and controlling the movement of major releases from test and pre-production through to successful deployment in the production environment. We are looking for an experienced Release Manager with a passion to deliver world class service, someone who will share our vision for collaboration, partnership and being part of a positive work environment. **Key Accountabilities**: - Maintain the documented Release Management Policy, process, and procedures. - Provides support and guidance to stakeholders to assist them with understanding and complying with the Releases process. - Identifies ways to improve the Release process. - Ensures organisation and team objectives are met by proactively supporting team members. - Provides leadership to the Release Coordinator team. **He aha taau e kawe mai | What you'll bring** 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.- Service Delivery: Ownership of the New Zealand Police Release Management Framework, driving continual improvement of processes and sound knowledge and understanding of ITIL 4. - Relationship Management: Build and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that releases comply with agreed processes to protect the integrity of Police's ICT systems. - Quality Management: Be an advocate for Change Management processes to drive successful change and quality implementations minimising the impact for Police - Complex Environment: Experience of working in a complex technical environment with ICT services provided both in house and by external partners, with a mixture of legacy systems and new cloud services. **Whakaritenga motuhake | Special requirements**- Sound knowledge and understanding of ITIL 4. - Understanding and experience working in an Agile environment beneficial - Some experience of Project Management methodologies would be beneficial. - Flexibility as some releases are scheduled out of hours due to demands. This role is set at **Individual Contributor level**, this means your key purpose is "to deliver or enable others to deliver Our Business". We will ask you questions based on "How we will deliver Our Business - Core Competencies" and the appropriate role level, i.e. Individual Contributor. These questions will be unique and specific to the role, focusing on the aspects the hiring manager believes are most important for that position at the time. **Mo tatou | About us** New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It works in partnership with individuals, communities, businesses, and other public sector agencies towards the vision of making New Zealand the safest country. Police is the government's largest front-line response agency with around 15,000 staff in large and small communities all over New Zealand and in liaison and policing development roles overseas. Your development is highly valued at NZ Police. Our employees enjoy significant investment in their development not only at an individual level, but also at the team and community practice level. We work hard to match you with work that will both play to your strengths and challenge you in new ways. The work you'll be engaged in is real, tangible work that directly benefits our frontline and communities. Taken all together, this means we can offer you career path opportunities to progress in your chosen profession and become a more well-rounded, experienced leader, with opportunities across the range of work we support. **_To view more detailed information about our recruitment process along with further details about requirements please click below link:_** Applicant Information Pack (External) **To view the position description for this rol