Director - Transformation

About Kāinga Ora | Mō Kāinga Ora
Kāinga Ora manages over 77,000 state houses, providing stable homes for more than 200,000 New Zealanders. Established in 2019, we deliver quality social housing, lead urban development projects, and create connected neighbourhoods with essential community infrastructure across Aotearoa.

Guided by three core values, Manaakitanga (putting people first), Mahi Tahi (achieving more by working together), and Whanake (striving for better), they partner with government agencies, councils, iwi, and private sector organisations to deliver innovative, sustainable housing solutions that help people build stable lives.
  
About the Role | Mō te Tūranga
Kāinga Ora's Transformation Office leads the country's biggest change programme. You'll own the internal delivery capability and serve as the GM Transformation's senior advisor on enterprise roadmaps and executive engagement.
  
Your day-to-day will include:  

• Shaping and maintaining the enterprise transformation roadmap across workstreams
• Providing advisory and delivery support to the Technology Modernisation Programme
• Building transformation maturity and capability across the organisation
• Partnering with executives to identify, frame and mature transformation initiatives
• Owning delivery governance across workstreams and intervening early where risk emerges

About You | Māu
You've led significant enterprise transformation and know what it takes to operate where delivery counts. You're comfortable alongside tech-driven change, engaging demanding executive teams, and drawing frontline kaimahi into transformation design from the start.
  
Your approach will be defined by:

• Executive presence that commands credibility without relying on title
• Emotional intelligence and humility; you're here to contribute and learn
• An instinct for turning complexity into clear, coordinated action
• Accountability and urgency: you make hard calls when they're needed

What's On Offer | Ngā Painga
You'll join a high-performing crew already doing the unheard of, backed by a board and executive genuinely committed through to 2030. This is an organisation willing to make bold calls, and one that genuinely wants to learn from the people it brings in.
  
Next Steps
  
Apply now - you'll need to hold New Zealand citizenship, residency, or a valid work visa.

If this role isn’t a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply or register your details on our website. If this isn’t quite the right fit, another role might be.

This ad was written with help from AI, but your application will be reviewed by a real human, Craig:
  
In an industry that’s famous for talking, Craig likes to listen. Listen to what is important to you so he can help you to achieve your career goals.  Outside of work you’ll find him spending time with his wife and two boys, riding his bike and watching grown men in red shirts chasing a round ball about on TV!

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