Manager Governance | Wellington City

Job Description

Job Title: Manager Governance

Role type: Permanent full-time

Location: Wellington

Salary range: $128,247 to $173,511 depending on skills and experience

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role

The Strategy, Governance and Performance Directorate is part of the Public Affairs business unit, and its work contributes to ensuring there is confidence in the operation and direction of MPI. Our primary internal customers are the Senior Leadership Team in their collective role as the leaders of MPI and as Governance members.

In this role, you and your team will have an influential role to provide advice and support to the Senior Leadership Team and the Senior Leadership Team organisational sub-Committees. You will also work closely alongside your managerial colleagues in Directorate. The other functions in the Directorate cover organisational strategy development and implementation, planning, and performance reporting. This gives a solid enterprise view to inform the governance work of providing strategic advice and assurance to senior leaders.

Mōu - About You

The Manager will be responsible for developing and leading a highly capable team ensuring robust processes for communication, engagement, learning and development and performance management are implemented.

To be successful in this role you will possess:

• Significant experience in managing governance arrangements, assessing organisational performance, and leading organisational improvement and change in a large public sector organisation
• Experience in working collaboratively across organisations
• The ability to establish and maintain strong effective working relationships with internal stakeholders
• Significant experience working with Senior Managers and Chief Executives
• Knowledge and experience in change management, strategy development and implementation
• Experience in managing, coaching staff, building a high performing and connected team
• Excellent presentation skills
• Strong written communication skills

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team  

The Manager Governance will support a team that is adept at providing secretariat services and advising on governance and organisational capabilities that MPI requires to be successful. It is a flexible go-to team with a strong focus on good governance and decision-making in a large public sector organisation. The team works closely with the Strategy and Planning team and Organisational Performance while at times the Strategy Directorate needs to work in cross-directorate project teams.

Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) partners with New Zealand's food and fibre sector to be the world's most sustainable provider of high-value food and primary products.

Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI Additional MPI leave days

• Ability to purchase extra annual leave
• Annual Wellness payment
• Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

Wā Mahi Ngāwari - Flexible Working

We support flexible working arrangements and are happy to discuss these options with you.

Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?

We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.

We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values, your whakapapa; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.

Applications close at midnight on 26 March, 2023.

If you have any questions about the role, please email tina.rush@mpi.govt.nz 

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