Domain Principal, Organisational Development - Digital Capability

JobSpace; Wellington; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Inland Revenue is seeking a Domain Principal in Organisational Development to provide thought leadership on how digital capability and AI enablement shape workforce design. You will help leaders build confidence, judgment and adaptability to use digital tools and data effectively.

The role focuses on enterprise-wide strategy, role design and capability frameworks, working across business groups to influence decisions and translate complex ideas into practical guidance for diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• Experience leading organisational development in complex or changing environments.
• Shaping workforce strategy, strategic workforce planning, role design or future ways of working.
• Developing capability frameworks or workforce development approaches that are practical and usable.
• Working across business groups to provide clear advice, influence decisions and shape enterprise approaches.
• Turning complex ideas into simple, practical guidance for different audiences.

Responsibilities

• Provide thought leadership and practical advice on intellectual property and capability design within IR.
• Help translate digital ambition into workforce, role and capability foundations.
• Develop clear frameworks and interventions that support leaders and teams to adapt how they work.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders and peers to shape enterprise approaches across the organisation.
• Deliver practical solutions that connect digital, AI or future-of-work priorities with workforce capability.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Organisational development

Digital capability

AI change management

Job description

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Domain Principal, Organisational Development - Digital Capability

Domain Principal in Organisational Development

As a Domain Principal in Organisational Development, you will provide thought leadership and practical advice on how IR designs work, roles and capability. You will help our people and leaders build the confidence, judgement and adaptability to use digital tools, data and AI well.

The work will be varied and enterprise-facing. It includes supporting IR's workforce strategy and strategic workforce planning, shaping future-focused role design and ways of working, strengthening capability frameworks, and helping leaders understand what digital and AI-enabled change means for people, work and teams.

In this role you will help translate IR's digital ambition into the workforce, role and capability foundations needed to support it. You will develop clear advice, frameworks and interventions that support people, leaders and teams to adapt how they work and build capability for the future.

You are a systems thinker who understands people, work and organisations. You are curious about digital change and AI, and grounded in what it takes to build confidence, capability and behaviour change in large, complex organisations.

You will be credible with senior stakeholders, collaborative with peers, and confident providing advice that is clear, evidence-informed and pragmatic. Experience in the public sector, large service organisations, or complex enterprise environments would be useful.

Experience delivering practical solutions that connect digital, AI or future-of-work priorities with workforce and organisational capability is essential. You will also be able to demonstrate experience in the following:

• leading organisational development work in complex or changing environments
• shaping workforce strategy, strategic workforce planning, role design or future ways of working
• developing capability frameworks or workforce development approaches that are practical and usable
• working across business groups and specialist teams to provide clear advice, influence decisions and shape enterprise approaches
• turning complex ideas into simple, practical guidance for different audiences.

This is a chance to work on meaningful, high-impact organisational development that supports IR's digital ambition and strategic priorities. You will be part of a small, expert team that works across the organisation to build the leadership, capability and organisational foundations IR needs now and for the future.