Strategic Interventions Leader for Regulatory Impact

INSIDE Recruitment; Christchurch; Hybrid; NZD 196,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free life insurance

Health insurance

Home workstation contribution

Five weeks’ annual leave

Sick leave 15 days

Recognition framework

Professional development opportunities

Employee-led networks

Job summary

INSIDE Recruitment in Christchurch is recruiting for a senior regulatory leader to head the new Strategic Interventions function at WorkSafe New Zealand. You will drive assessment, design, and learning to optimise regulatory interventions and outcomes across Aotearoa.

The role requires extensive senior leadership credibility, experience shaping methodologies and influencing executives. It offers a flexible location across Aotearoa and a broad portfolio of impact across public safety and policy.

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience within a regulatory environment.
• Experience leading intervention, regulatory, policy or strategic functions.
• Strong understanding of how regulators influence systems and behaviour.
• Proven change leadership across complex organisational environments.
• Experience establishing methodologies, operating models or new functions.
• Strong executive influence, storytelling and strategic communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Set WorkSafe’s intervention strategy, priorities and methodology.
• Lead intervention assessment, design and organisational learning.
• Build and embed a strategic interventions function across WorkSafe.
• Integrate evidence, intelligence and evaluation into regulatory decisions.
• Influence enterprise‑wide intervention planning and delivery.
• Advise executives on regulatory priorities, trade‑offs and system impacts.
• Drive organisational change and continuous improvement.

Skills

Senior leadership

Regulatory policy

Intervention design

Executive influence

Change leadership

Job description

INSIDE Recruitment in Christchurch is recruiting for a senior regulatory leader to head the new Strategic Interventions function at WorkSafe New Zealand. You will drive assessment, design, and learning to optimise regulatory interventions and outcomes across Aotearoa.

The role requires extensive senior leadership credibility, experience shaping methodologies and influencing executives. It offers a flexible location across Aotearoa and a broad portfolio of impact across public safety and policy.