Senior Project Manager | Kaiwhakahaere Kaupapa Matua at Statistics NZ, Canterbury

M? t?nei t?ranga mahi | About this role: Kaiwhakahaere Kaupapa Matua | Senior Project Manager

Join an organization contributing to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come. Opportunity to manage and deliver projects that aim to improve outcomes for all New Zealanders. Flexible work environment including family-friendly hours. Permanent position based in either Wellington or Christchurch supported by an Enterprise Portfolio Office that adapts and responds to the organization's needs.

About Us | Ko m?tou: Stats NZ | Tatauranga Aotearoa is a central government employer of 1200+ people across Aotearoa. We provide data and statistics to support the decisions of government, M?ori and Iwi organizations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is about Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.

What's in it for you? | Ng? hua ka riro ki a koe: We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about the Way We Work at Stats NZ and also check out our benefits. We want to work for you… to work for you!!

Starting salary: $118,052 to $138,158 + superannuation

Other benefits of joining Stats NZ include balancing life and work commitments. Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments). Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa. 3 extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure). City-based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs. State-of-the-art, 6-star green building in Wellington.

The role | Te t?nga: This is an opportunity for you to play a key part in improving information/data services and processes that support our staff to ensure New Zealanders have quality data and statistics. Opportunity to manage and deliver projects that aim to improve outcomes for all New Zealanders. Flexible work environment including family-friendly hours. Permanent position based in either Wellington or Christchurch supported by an Enterprise Portfolio Office that adapts and responds to the organization's needs.

We are recruiting for two senior project managers to work with teams and stakeholders across the organization to deliver work that will contribute to a successful next census. The role will be based in our Enterprise Portfolio Office team, whilst working closely day to day with our Census Design and Delivery kaimahi, Project Executive, and Programme Director.

Alongside your significant experience of successfully leading large projects within the government sector, your strengths will include the ability to actively listen, learn, and foster collaboration to effectively operate within a complex environment. You will be confident building positive and productive relationships across the organization and demonstrate the interpersonal skills required to enable, support, and lead others to deliver priority outcomes whilst also bringing new perspectives.

You will be highly organized yet flexible when necessary, detail-oriented, self-managing, and able to work independently as well as part of a cross-functional team. You will be highly experienced with project management techniques and frameworks and be comfortable applying these as relevant to the unique context of a project and its operating environment.

The Senior Project Manager role requires SFIA Competency Level 6 (initiate), indicating a high level of organizational impact and influence and the critical nature of this role within the wider business.

You will: have significant experience as a Senior Project Manager leading complex projects, be a trusted advisor to a diverse stakeholder base, have Agile SCRUM experience, have a relevant project management qualification e.g. PRINCE2, PMI, SCRUM, think strategically to drive the development and implementation of a workplan to deliver to timeframes, have led large project teams, managing risks, dependencies, timelines, reporting and budgets, work collaboratively to find effective solutions to challenges, communicate clearly, conveying idea's, expectations, and feedback, be resilient and remain calm under pressure, managing unexpected events effectively, understand the public sector governance lifecycle and have the ability to produce high quality governance documents.

What you bring | N?u te rourou: We understand transferable skills can come from experience gained from outside of work. We encourage you to be yourself in your application. We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and lifting our cultural capability. You don't need to be knowledgeable in all these areas already, but you do need to be on board with learning and have a genuine interest and willingness to grow on this journey with us. Tell us about yourself in your cover letter, what attracted you to this role, and what you would bring to Stats NZ.

How to apply | Me p?hea te tuku tono: If this sounds like you, click on the Apply Now button to be redirected to the application page on our careers site. The position description is located on the right-hand side of the page.

We will be screening applications as we receive them to move swiftly to interview. You may be asked to complete a pre-interview screen via phone or video. Please let us know in your application if we need to make any specific accommodations during our process. if you have any questions.

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Reach out to recruitment@stats.govt.nz