Senior Programme Manager

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is seeking an experienced Senior Programme Manager for an eight-month fixed-term parental leave cover. The role provides oversight across a complex transformation portfolio, leading planning, sequencing and coordination of workstreams while aligning delivery with organisational priorities.

You will identify interdependencies, manage risks, and support governance with timely, clear advice.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience leading complex transformation programmes or portfolios.
• Strong strategic planning, sequencing, risk and dependency management capability.
• Experience working effectively with executive leaders and governance.
• An outcomes- and benefits-focused approach to programme delivery.
• Experience with agile, adaptive or hybrid approaches to delivery.
• Excellent written communication and the ability to turn complex information into clear advice and decisions.
• Strong relationship and influencing skills across different professional and organisational perspectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight and direction across a complex portfolio of interconnected transformation activity.
• Lead the planning, sequencing and coordination of transformation workstreams with clear line of sight across delivery, dependencies, risks and benefits.
• Strengthen programme delivery practice across Te Pae Tawhiti, supporting teams to work in adaptive and outcomes-focused ways.
• Move between strategic and practical work, with governance informed decision support.
• Manage interdependencies across programmes and surface systemic risks and constraints early.

Skills

Transformation leadership

Strategic planning

Executive governance

Outcomes-focused delivery

Agile/Hybrid delivery

Written communication

Relationship influence

Job description

8-month fixed term | Parental leave cover

Te Pae Tawhiti 2030 is the organisational strategy for TeWānanga o Aotearoa and represents a significant programme of transformationacross how we work, how we support our kaimahi, and how we deliver for ourtauira and communities.

We are looking for an experienced Senior ProgrammeManager to join our Te Pae Tawhiti transformation team on a 8-monthfixed-term basis, providing parental leave cover.

Mō tēnei mahi | About this job

This is a senior programme leadership role providingoversight and direction across a complex portfolio of interconnectedtransformation activity.

You will lead the planning, sequencing and coordination oftransformation workstreams, maintaining a clear line of sight across delivery,dependencies, risks and benefits. Working closely with the Director ofTransformation, senior leaders and programme teams, you will help ensure ourtransformation activity remains connected to organisational priorities andfocused on delivering meaningful outcomes.

A significant part of the role is creating clarity acrosscomplexity. You will identify and manage interdependencies across programmes,surface systemic risks and constraints early, and ensure leaders and governancehave the information and advice they need to make timely decisions.

You will also play an important role in strengtheningprogramme delivery practice across Te Pae Tawhiti, supporting teams to work inadaptive and outcomes-focused ways and ensuring benefits remain connected todelivery throughout the transformation lifecycle.

The role has significant exposure to senior leadership andgovernance and requires someone who can move comfortably between the strategicand the practical.

You will be an experienced programme or transformationleader who has operated across large, complex programmes with multipleworkstreams and significant organisational interdependencies.

You will bring strong programme leadership fundamentalsalongside the judgement and pragmatism required to work in an environment wherepriorities and circumstances continue to evolve.

We are looking for someone with:

• Substantialexperience leading complex transformation programmes or portfolios
• Strongstrategic planning, sequencing, risk and dependency management capability
• Experienceworking effectively with executive leaders and governance
• Anoutcomes and benefits-focused approach to programme delivery
• Experiencewith agile, adaptive or hybrid approaches to delivery
• Excellentwritten communication and the ability to turn complex information intoclear advice and decisions
• Strongrelationship and influencing skills, including the ability to work acrossdifferent professional and organisational perspectives

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is a kaupapa Māori organisation. Howwe undertake transformation matters as much as what we deliver.

Our work is grounded in Kaupapa Matua and Ngā Uara: TeAroha, Te Whakapono, Ngā Ture and Kotahitanga. We are looking for someone whowill demonstrate genuine commitment to these values through the way they lead,work and build relationships.

You will be committed to developing your understanding andeveryday use of te reo Māori and āhuatanga Māori and to working in ways thatprotect and enhance the mana of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.

Why this role

Te Pae Tawhiti is well into delivery. This is not a rolewhere you will spend your first six months designing a transformation programmeon paper.

You will join an established team working across significantorganisational change, with the opportunity to influence how work isprioritised, connected and delivered over the next phase of Te Pae Tawhiti.

If you are an experienced transformation leader who enjoys bringing clarity to complexity, connecting people and programmes, and turning strategy into delivery, we would like to hear from you.

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