Digital Transformation Delivery Lead

Hastings District Council; Hastings; On-site; NZD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hastings District Council in Hastings, New Zealand, seeks a senior people and delivery leader to drive the Business Transformation function, aligning digital and process change with council priorities. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will lead a multidisciplinary team, shape the transformation roadmap, and ensure governance, capacity planning and benefits tracking across projects.

This role sits in Hastings within a collaborative public sector environment that values community

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in information technology, business, project or programme management, digital transformation, public sector management, or related discipline.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary delivery teams in a complex organisation.
• Strong programme management, portfolio coordination, roadmap planning and resource-planning capability.
• Experience leading a portfolio of projects or programmes, including prioritisation, delivery oversight, governance reporting and benefits tracking.
• A sound understanding of business analysis, project management, systems integration and operational transition principles.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, vendor coordination and negotiation skills.
• The judgement and resilience to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, constrained resources and delivery risk.
• A strong commitment to public service values, community outcomes and the responsible use of technology.

Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching and developing a high-performing multidisciplinary delivery team.
• Providing programme-level oversight across Council's digital and business transformation portfolio.
• Developing and maintaining a rolling transformation roadmap aligned with Council strategy, operational priorities and technology direction.
• Coordinating demand, prioritisation, capacity and resource planning, including clear trade-offs when demand exceeds available capacity.
• Strengthening discovery and business analysis so problems, processes, requirements, constraints and expected benefits are understood before solutions are committed.
• Overseeing delivery of APIs, integrations, web services and related digital solution components, with clear acceptance, support and handover arrangements.
• Maintaining practical governance and reporting across risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, delivery progress and benefits.
• Building trusted relationships with business leaders, service owners, vendors, delivery partners and governance groups.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Programme management

Leadership

Communication

Strategic planning

Change management

Vendor coordination

Education

Tertiary qualification in information technology, business, project or programme management, digital transformation, public sector management, or related discipline

Job description

Hastings District Council in Hastings, New Zealand, seeks a senior people and delivery leader to drive the Business Transformation function, aligning digital and process change with council priorities. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will lead a multidisciplinary team, shape the transformation roadmap, and ensure governance, capacity planning and benefits tracking across projects.

This role sits in Hastings within a collaborative public sector environment that values community