Lead - Enterprise Change

The Opportunity | Te Āheinga
Few organisations in New Zealand are navigating transformation at the scale currently underway at Kāinga Ora.

As Lead - Business Change Services, you'll provide enterprise oversight across a significant portfolio of organisational, workforce, operating model, process and technology change. Working with senior leaders across the organisation, you'll help ensure change is well coordinated, understood and successfully adopted.

This is a highly influential role with the opportunity to shape enterprise change practice, strengthen organisational capability and lead a team of experienced change professionals during a period of significant transformation.

About the Role | Mō te Tūranga

• Leading Kāinga Ora's enterprise approach to business change, governance and organisational readiness
• Maintaining visibility across major change initiatives and providing advice on impacts, risks, dependencies and organisational capacity
• Evolving enterprise change frameworks, standards, tools and methodologies
• Supporting governance forums with insights and recommendations that inform decision-making
• Partnering with transformation, people, digital and business leaders to support successful outcomes
• Coaching and developing Senior Change Advisors while building change capability across the organisation
• Measuring adoption, outcomes and benefits realisation across major initiatives

About You | Māu

You will be an accomplished transformational change leader who brings enterprise-wide perspective, sound judgement and the ability to influence, connect and build confidence across a complex organisation.

We're particularly interested in people who:

• Bring significant enterprise change experience across organisational, workforce, service, process or operating model change
• Have successfully influenced senior leaders and worked across multiple stakeholder groups in complex environments
• Understand how change, organisational design, technology change, workforce impacts and business outcomes intersect
• Strong knowledge of change management methodologies and the ability to apply them pragmatically to achieve outcomes
• Enjoy coaching and developing others and take pride in helping capability grow around them
• Can balance strategic thinking with practical delivery
• Are comfortable working in environments where priorities evolve and ambiguity is part of the landscape

Just as important as experience is how you work.
You'll be someone who builds trust quickly, reads a room well, adapts your approach to different audiences and isn't afraid to challenge constructively when needed. You'll enjoy connecting the dots, simplifying complexity and bringing people on the journey.

What We Offer | Ā Mātou Tuku

• High-performing, flexible and trust-based culture
• Rare transformation exposure across people, process, operating model and technology
• Opportunity to join at a pivotal stage of Kāinga Ora's transformation journey
• Commercial-scale complexity combined with meaningful social impact
• Supportive leadership committed to your growth and success
• Opportunity to shape lasting organisational change
• Additional Benefits - Including five weeks' annual leave, insurance benefits and flexible working arrangements.

Interested? | E Hiahia Ana?
Cultivate is proud to be partnering with Kāinga Ora on these appointments.
If you're interested in learning more or applying for the role, please do so through Cultivate. To help us manage the recruitment process effectively, we kindly ask that applications are not submitted directly to Kāinga Ora.

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.
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A bit about Kathryn
20 years recruiting within the NZ market - she has helped hiring managers build capability in their teams whilst mutually assisting hundreds of individuals take the next step in their career. 
 
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