People Transformation Partner

At Earth Sciences New Zealand, we're bringing together exceptional science, technology and people to address the environmental, climate and natural hazard challenges facing Aotearoa New Zealand. As a collaborative and purpose-driven organisation, we're committed to delivering science that creates meaningful impact for communities, industry and the environment, while partnering with Māori, supporting Pacific resilience, and shaping a more sustainable future for generations to come.

About the position

In this two-year fixed-term position, you will partner with leaders, employees and key stakeholders to deliver people transformation initiatives that support the successful integration of legacy organisations into Earth Sciences New Zealand. You'll play a key role in shaping and embedding people practices, change initiatives and ways of working that create a cohesive, high-performing organisation.

What You’ll Do:

• Deliver people transformation and organisational change initiatives from planning through to implementation.
• Lead consultation activities and support effective engagement with employees, unions and stakeholders.
• Develop and implement change, communication and adoption plans that support successful transitions.
• Manage project plans, milestones, risks, dependencies and governance requirements.
• Support organisational design activities, workforce planning and future-state operating models.
• Monitor progress, outcomes and employee feedback to continuously improve implementation approaches.

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrated experience delivering organisational change, transformation or workforce initiatives in complex environments.
• Proven experience managing projects, workplans, risks, dependencies and deliverables to successful outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, consultation and relationship management skills.
• Experience developing and implementing change management approaches, including readiness, impact and adoption activities.
• Ability to translate strategy and people frameworks into practical, business-focused solutions.
• Relevant qualifications in Human Resources, Organisational Development, Change Management, Project Management or a related discipline desirable.

We know that talented people especially those from under‑represented or neurodiverse communities sometimes hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement in a job description. If this role aligns with your strengths, lived experience, or interests, we’d love to hear from you and we’re committed to supporting your growth.

What we offer

• Varied, challenging and important work with talented colleagues in an organisation devoted to earth science.
• A high performing organisation with a focus on employee development and wellbeing
• Generous leave entitlements and employee benefits
• Flexible working options (e.g, flexible start and finish times). We are happy to discuss potential flexible options for this position at the interview stage.
• A two year fixed-term, full time (38 hours per week) position.
• This role can be located at our campus in either Lower Hutt, Hamilton or Auckland.

View the full position description for this role here - https://www.gns.cri.nz/careers/.  Please contact [email protected] with any questions or queries.

Apply now

If this sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you.

Applications close on Friday, 14 August 2026