ICT Project Manager | Wellington City

Job Description

Role type: Permanent, Full-Time

Location: Wellington

Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role

In this role, you will be responsible for successfully managing digital projects on MPI's Digital Investment Plan. Specifically, this includes managing projects from inception to completion, including managing internal resources, vendors/suppliers/partners, project objectives and expected benefits, risks and issues and financials. You'll be comfortable managing multiple projects concurrently. In addition, you'll prepare and present quality reporting to key stakeholders on project governance boards.

Mōu - About You

To be successful in this role, you'll ideally have significant proven experience managing digital projects or programmes in a large and complex organisation.

In addition to the above, we are seeking an applicant with:

• Bring relevant experience in comparable ICT Project Management roles, ideally gained in large, complex environments with a mix of application and infrastructure projects
• Possess project management qualification/certification
• Possess sound knowledge of project management techniques and frameworks and the ability to apply these
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills (senior leadership, technical subject matter experts, business subject matter experts, vendors/suppliers/partners)
• Effective communication skills (written, verbal, interpersonal)
• Previous experience working with project management tools (e.g. MS Project)
• Proven leadership skills, with a focus on leading project teams to successful outcomes
• Committed to ongoing learning and adapting approaches as needed

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team

The role of Business Technology & Information Services (BT&IS) is to enable business technology solutions and deliver high quality, cost effective information & technology services to Ministry staff and external stakeholders. The Digital Portfolio Office is within BT&IS.

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

• Up to three additional (MPI holidays) leave days
• Reduced premiums for Group Healthcare Schemes
• Bi-annual MPI-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, whanau 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 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 Friday, 24 March 2023.

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

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