Strategic Portfolio Delivery Lead

WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

World Animal Protection is seeking a Portfolio Delivery Manager to ensure strategic initiatives are delivered effectively across a varied portfolio. You will lead delivery management, strengthen governance, improve visibility, and align teams and external partners to keep work on track.

You will also help build delivery capability within the organisation, supporting planning, mobilisation and delivery practices to drive consistent outcomes across programmes and projects.

Qualifications

• Experience leading project, programme, PMO or delivery management work across a complex portfolio of initiatives.
• Ability to adapt delivery approaches while maintaining governance and usability.
• Experience coordinating work across multiple stakeholders, including external partners.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills to resolve delivery challenges.
• Experience improving delivery capability, planning discipline and PMO standards.
• Sound judgement in assessing feasibility, risks and actions to improve outcomes.
• People management experience, including development and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery management across strategically significant projects and programmes, ensuring work is mobilised, governed and supported effectively.
• Adapt and apply delivery management processes, tools and PMO approaches across a range of delivery environments and initiatives.
• Coordinate work delivered through external partners, ensuring clear governance, accountability, visibility and escalation routes.
• Work collaboratively across teams to identify and address risks, dependencies, readiness gaps and delivery challenges.
• Build organisational delivery capability by strengthening planning, mobilisation, governance and oversight practices.
• Review delivery performance across the portfolio and implement improvements that increase consistency, control and delivery effectiveness.
• Provide advice and guidance on delivery feasibility, risks, partnership impacts and actions needed to keep work on track

Skills

Delivery management

PMO

Governance

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Portfolio management

Job description

World Animal Protection is seeking a Portfolio Delivery Manager to ensure strategic initiatives are delivered effectively across a varied portfolio. You will lead delivery management, strengthen governance, improve visibility, and align teams and external partners to keep work on track.

You will also help build delivery capability within the organisation, supporting planning, mobilisation and delivery practices to drive consistent outcomes across programmes and projects.