- Lead the Ministry’s people and workforce strategy
- Build organisational capability, culture and future-focused ways of working
- Shape a customer-centric People function that enables performance
Strengthening Education
The Ministry of Education plays a critical role in shaping New Zealand’s education system to deliver equitable and excellent outcomes for all learners.
Achieving excellence is about supporting every student to experience success at every stage of their learning journey, from early learning and schooling, right through to tertiary, training and employment. A focus on equity is critical in the New Zealand context. It means recognising and responding to the diverse circumstances and needs of all our learners.
We are now reshaping the way the Ministry is organised so that we are better positioned to deliver on the goals of equity and excellence. This means being focused on our core role and doing it well; being deliberately outward-facing and forward-looking; utilising evidence and data to make informed decisions; and supporting a strong organisational culture.
As the stewards of our education system, the Ministry is looking for experienced and outstanding leaders who are driven, curious, open to different perspectives and adaptable to lead our people through system and organisational change.
About this role | Mō tēnei tūranga
The Chief People, Capability and Culture Officer leads the design and implementation of people-related activities across Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education, aligning the people strategy to the organisation’s goals and driving a positive workplace culture that enables people to grow and supports performance.
The role will define and lead the Ministry’s people and workforce strategy, and advise the Secretary and Te Pou Tokomanawa on people-related issues, organisational performance and workforce health. It will oversee human resources activity across the employee lifecycle, including organisational development, people operations, workforce planning and analytics, learning and development, safety and wellbeing, human resources advice, payroll, and employee and industrial relations.
You will lead a programme of culture and capability improvement, strengthen strategic business partnering and support leaders to build ownership for workforce development and planning. You will also improve how digital, data and service design are used to create a customer-centric and integrated People function.
About you | Mōhou ake
You are an experienced senior People leader who has set strategic direction and delivered meaningful organisational and workforce change in a large or complex organisation. You bring strong organisational development and design expertise, and a record of improving culture, employee engagement, leadership capability and workforce performance.
You combine strategic people leadership with strong operational human resources experience. You are credible in complex employee and industrial relations environments, confident at executive level and able to use workforce data and insight to support decisions. Your leadership style is collaborative, values-led and focused on building trust, capability and measurable improvement.
You will bring:
- Extensive experience in senior human resources or people leadership roles in large or complex organisations.
- Experience setting the strategic direction for a People function and delivering against strategic objectives.
- Strong organisational development and organisation design expertise.
- Experience leading workforce strategy, planning, analytics and capability development.
- A record of building strategic business partnering and business ownership for workforce development.
- Experience leading culture, engagement, leadership and organisational change programmes.
- Strong operational human resources experience, including complex employee and industrial relations.
- Experience with service design, digital and data approaches that improve efficiency, effectiveness and user experience.
- The ability to lead inclusive and diverse teams and create a safe, open and responsive culture.
- The ability to operate confidently at executive level, manage challenge and progress decisions at pace and quality.
- The ability and willingness to adhere to and promote the Public Service Standards of Integrity and Conduct.
https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/guidance/standards-of-integrity-and-conduct
Are you ready to make a difference? | Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi?
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The lead consultants for this assignment at IN SIDE Recruitment are Charlotte Cottrell and Julie Le Prou.
Applications close at 12:00pm, Friday 18th September.
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