Lead how people, teams and ways of working come together across Digital
Partner with senior Digital leaders to embed and strengthen ways of working and build lasting capability
Enduring leadership role with an immediate focus on Digital’s evolving operating model and Security transition
Permanent, full-time position. Wellington preferred (but Auckland may be considered)
Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity
We’re looking for an experienced Digital Domain Change Lead to provide strategic change leadership across Te Aukaha | Digital helping our people and leaders translate our delivery excellence goal into practical, sustainable ways of working.
This is a senior, influential role working alongside Digital leadership teams to connect activity across Digital, identify where priorities, people and ways of working are connected or colliding, and help leaders resolve issues that cut across organisational boundaries. You’ll provide strategic advice, challenge and support to leaders, build change capability, and help translate the operating model into clear and sustainable ways of working.
Your initial focus will be the transition following the restructure of Security. You will work across Security, Digital and the wider organisation to clarify how the new structure will operate, including roles, decision-making, working relationships, processes and capability needs.
More broadly, you’ll play an important role in integrating and embedding Digital’s operating model, looking across the delivery system to identify gaps and risks, conflicting priorities and dependencies while strengthening connections across Te Aukaha and the organisation which will improve how people work together.
Importantly, this isn’t a traditional project-based change management role. It’s an enduring leadership role embedded in Te Aukaha | Digital. You’ll stay close to what is happening in the business, and move between strategic advice and hands-on problem solving to make sure new structures and ways of working are working in practice.
In this role you will:
work strategically with Digital senior leaders and their leadership teams, providing trusted advice to give them a clear view of pressure on their people, readiness risks and where intervention is needed
maintain an integrated view across Digital, identifying pressure points, dependencies, risks and opportunities
help leaders and delivery teams translate Digital’s operating model into practical, sustainable ways of working
build strong relationships across Digital and the wider organisation, connecting people and activity where a joined-up approach will deliver better outcomes
coach leaders and teams to strengthen leader-led change capability and successfully embed new ways of working
step into complex or ambiguous situations, establish clarity and keep work moving
You will find out more about the role here: Position Description . Appointment salary is between $133,632 to $163,328 commensurate with skills and experience.
Ko koe tēnei | About you
You’ll be a seasoned change professional who operates comfortably at a strategic level and can build credibility quickly with senior leaders. You’ll bring executive presence, sound judgement and the confidence to challenge constructively, while building trusted relationships.
Credible experience within a Digital environment is essential. You’ll understand the context Digital leaders and teams operate within and be able to confidently navigate conversations about operating models, ways of working and the complexity of a large organisation.
Ideally, you’ll bring:
extensive change leadership experience within complex organisations in a digital context, with a strong track record of delivering and embedding sustainable change
experience supporting operating model change, organisational restructures, resets of ways of working or significant process improvement
strong strategic and whole-of-system thinking, with the ability to see connections and impacts across multiple…