Senior Change Specialist

Permanent, full-time role
- As a Senior Change Specialist you'll play a key role in the change management activities, leading on complex initiatives by developing, planning, and delivering change management interventions geared to deliver sustainable change and enable equitable, measurable outcomes.
- Salary Band: $110,923 to $135,573 depending on skills and experience

Help shape the future of Education
- He mea _**_tārai _**_e mātou te _**_mātauranga_**_ kia_**_ rangatira_**_ ai, kia _**_mana taurite_**_ ai ōna _**_huanga_**
- We work to _**_shape_**_ an _**_education_**_ system that delivers _**_equitable_**_ and _**_excellent outcomes_**

At Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education, we work to provide services and support nationally, regionally and locally to the education sector, and in some cases, directly to ākonga and whānau.

We help shape the policies, settings and performance of the education system for early learning, schooling and tertiary. We do this by building relationships and understanding the needs of those who receive our services.

**We are making significant changes to how we deliver our mahi by**
- Taking practical action to give effect to te Tiriti o Waitangi.
- Giving priority to regional and local voice.
- Delivering greater responsiveness, accessibility and integrated services and support.
- Improving feedback loops and information flows.

Our organisation is made up of talented and committed people across Aotearoa from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures. While we work in different groups and on different things, we all strive every day to make the biggest difference we can for every child, young person and adult student in our education system.

About our group and team

Te Puna Rangatōpū | Corporate supports the wider organisation. We are responsible for delivering essential Ministry-wide statutory and corporate functions. We provide essential services such as governance, organisational strategy, communications, facilities, legal, finance, procurement, ministerial reporting and people capability to the organisation.

The Change team within Te Puna Rangatōpū helps leaders and their teams to manage change well. We focus on the people side of change and provide change management support for significant programmes and projects that impact across the Ministry.

Mō tēnei tūranga | About this role

As a Senior Change Specialist you'll play a key role in the change management activities, leading on complex initiatives by developing, planning, and delivering change management interventions geared to deliver sustainable change and enable equitable, measurable outcomes.

**Our change team offers**:

- Access to practical change tools and methodologies
- Investment in your development path to develop your change management practice
- A flexible, friendly working environment.
- Please note there is further information in the attached Job Description_._

You are an experienced change management lead with a passion for finding new ways to do things better. You are excited by the opportunities that can be realised through putting people first, new technologies, and building a collaborative and supportive work culture. You know how to influence at all levels and instil excitement in others, and you have the strong communication skills and empathy needed to guide people through challenging transitions.

**This role will suit**:

- A change management practitioner with experience leading complex change initiatives across programmes and projects

You will also offer:

- Solid experience leading and managing change effectively
- A clear focus on people and providing people-centred services
- Demonstrable experience working successfully with a range of stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience of working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment

Bring your change knowledge and experience to a team of dedicated professionals focused on supporting people to do their best work every day.

You'll work with senior leaders and their teams on varied projects and programmes, supporting design, development and implementation of change management interventions.

If you know how to implement and measure change activities, and have a demonstrated ability to deliver high quality, change related work, we want to hear from you. You'll need to tell us about your experience of working in complex change environments and putting people at the centre of change approaches and interventions.

**Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi? | Are you ready to make a difference?**

We want to provide flexible working environments where everyone feels relevant, valued and supported. So, if working from home and/or having a flexible start and finish to the day will help with this, we can usually make it happen. We'd love to hear what this might look like for you, so feel free to outline this in your Cover Letter.

In your cover letter we'd like to know:

- about you