Digital Programme Manager

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Te Pae Tawhiti 2030 forms the core of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa's digital transformation. This hands-on Digital Programme Manager role operates across a substantial portfolio including EPC, SEF and MDI, delivering rigour, visibility, coordination and governance for complex digital delivery.

You will manage budgets, forecasts and dependencies, work with senior leaders, and ensure delivery aligns with business change and organisational priorities.

Qualifications

• Significant programme management experience, ideally within digital or technology transformation.
• Experience delivering complex, multi-stream programmes.
• Strong programme budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting capability.
• Excellent risk, issue and dependency management.
• Experience preparing clear, decision-ready reporting for senior leaders and governance.
• Experience managing vendors, commercial arrangements and programme expenditure.
• Sound knowledge of agile and hybrid delivery approaches.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical environments.
• Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex and fast-moving delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide rigour, visibility and coordination across digital delivery.
• Ensure plans are connected, dependencies understood and risks actively managed.
• Maintain governance reporting and decisions for senior leaders.
• Manage budgets, forecasts and financial reporting for the portfolio.
• Collaborate with change, communications and broader transformation teams.
• Connect digital programmes to the wider transformation portfolio.

Skills

Significant programme management

Multi-stream programmes

Budgeting and forecasting

Risk, issue and dependency management

Clear reporting for senior leaders

Vendor & commercial management

Agile and hybrid delivery

Stakeholder management

Structure and clarity in delivery

Job description

Fixed term | Digital transformation portfolio

Te Pae Tawhiti 2030 is the organisational strategy for TeWānanga o Aotearoa, and delivering it requires significant transformationacross the way we work.

At the centre of that transformation sits a portfolio ofdigital programmes: Enrolment and Pastoral Care Experience (EPC), StrengtheningEnterprise Foundations (SEF), and Modernisation of Data Infrastructure (MDI).Together, these programmes are modernising core systems, processes and ways ofworking so that we can better serve our tauira, kaimahi and communities.

We are looking for an experienced Digital Programme Managerto provide the programme management discipline that helps keep this portfoliomoving.

Mō tēnei mahi | About this job

This is a hands-on programme management role operatingacross a substantial and complex digital transformation portfolio.

You will provide rigour, visibility and coordination acrossdigital delivery, ensuring plans are connected, dependencies are understood,risks and issues are actively managed, and leaders have clear information aboutprogress and the decisions required of them.

You will work closely with our Digital TransformationPortfolio Director, Senior Programme Manager and digital programme teams, aswell as colleagues leading change, communications and broader transformationactivity.

Strong financial management capability is an important partof this role. You will manage programme budgets and forecasts, provideforecast-to-complete and variance reporting, support vendor and commercialmanagement, and contribute to business cases and investment decisions.Financial clarity is a core part of what you will bring, not an administrativeadd-on.

You will also help connect our digital programmes to thewider Te Pae Tawhiti portfolio, ensuring technology delivery remains alignedwith business change, organisational priorities and the outcomes we are seekingto achieve.

You will be an experienced programme manager with a strongtrack record in digital or technology-enabled transformation.

You know how to establish the structure and disciplinerequired to deliver complex programmes without allowing programme process tobecome an end in itself. You are comfortable moving between programme plans,financials, risks and dependencies, governance reporting and conversations withsenior stakeholders.

We are looking for someone with:

• Significantprogramme management experience, ideally within digital or technologytransformation
• Experiencedelivering complex, multi-stream programmes
• Strongprogramme budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting capability
• Excellentrisk, issue and dependency management
• Experiencepreparing clear, decision-ready reporting for senior leaders andgovernance
• Experiencemanaging vendors, commercial arrangements and programme expenditure
• Soundknowledge of agile and hybrid delivery approaches
• Strongstakeholder management skills across technical and non-technicalenvironments
• Theability to bring structure and clarity to complex and fast-moving delivery

We expect our kaimahi to demonstrate genuine commitment tothose values through how they work and build relationships. Experience workingin kaupapa Māori or bicultural environments is highly valued, alongside acommitment to continuing to develop your capability in te reo Māori and tikangaMāori.

The digital transformation portfolio is live and moving. Youwill not be setting it up from scratch; you will be helping shape how asignificant programme of digital change is delivered and lands across theorganisation.

There is real scope to influence how the portfolio ismanaged, how risks and dependencies are addressed, how investment isunderstood, and how digital delivery connects with the wider organisationaltransformation.

If you are a disciplined and pragmatic digital programmemanager who enjoys complex delivery and wants to do meaningful work in anorganisation where people, culture and outcomes matter, we would like to hearfrom you.

A position description is available on our careers website. For any other queries, please email [e-mail]