- Making direct and critical impacts across the Regions communities
- Outstanding culture that your actions will directly impact/enhance
- Join, and contribute to, a dynamic and aligned ELT
Your leadership will help shape a future where Greater Wellington’s (GW’s) people thrive. By implementing best practices in HR, developing leadership potential, and playing a central role in the continual enhancement of a supportive environment, you will play a major part across a workplace that attracts, develops, and retains top talent.
You will also play a pivotal role in driving change, a continuous improvement philosophy that ensures GW remains a forward-thinking organisation that responds effectively to the evolving needs of the regions people and communities.
As a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), you will have a direct impact on shaping the organisation’s workforce and culture. This is an opportunity to lead, and drive evolutionary change aligned with the aforementioned continuous improvement mantra.
About the role:
As Group Manager, People & Culture, you will be the cornerstone of GW’s people strategy. With a management team of 5 direct reports, you will have overall responsibility for workforce management and employee well-being, ensuring that every member of the team feels supported, valued, and empowered. You will be responsible for:
- Organisational Development: Drive engagement, change management, leadership development, and training.
- Workforce Management: Oversee recruitment, remuneration, performance management, and HR advisory services.
- Health, Safety, and Wellbeing: Foster a culture of safety and well-being, ensuring compliance with key workplace legislation.
- Executive Leadership & Strategy: Provide expert guidance to the Chief Executive and the Council, ensuring alignment with our long-term goals.
- Cultural Transformation: Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives while enhancing an existing environment of collaboration and growth.
Skills and experience required:
We are seeking a visionary leader with:
- Extensive HR and People Management Experience: A strong background in human resources, workforce planning, and employee engagement.
- Strategic Leadership Skills: The ability to align people strategies with organisational goals.
- Lead from the front: Not only will you develop vision and strategy, but you must also exhibit a natural inclination/persona in order to “roll up your sleeves” and do the doing, be intimately involved in tactical delivery, as will frequently be required.
- Strong Communication & Relationship-Building Abilities: A talent for working collaboratively with senior leaders, council members, and stakeholders.
- A Commitment to Health, Safety, and Wellbeing: Ensuring that GW’s workplace is a safe, supportive, and thriving environment.
- Experience in Change Management & Organisational Development: The expertise to lead transformational initiatives that enhance the workplace culture.
What we offer:
- Work to suit your life and whānau with our flexible working policy.
- We’ll encourage you to grow and prosper with a range of learning and development opportunities, internal secondments and career progression.
- Your wellbeing is our priority – we’ll provide medical and trauma insurance, support through our employee assistance programme or Manawa Ora providers, generous annual and sick leave, along with Tangihanga leave and support.
- We want you to have a sense of belonging, where you can reflect your personal and cultural identity in the way that you work.
- Social clubs, staff networks and a friendly and inclusive culture.
- Great working environments across our beautiful region.
Come help treasure and grow our rohe together
Our rohe and its lands, waterways, animals, plants and people can only grow stronger if they are nurtured.
To join our team is to step up and commit to playing an active part in this important mahi. That means restoring nature, connecting people and places, reducing environmental impacts, and helping this rohe and its people prosper.
We are committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and support mana whenua as Kaitiaki. We’re also part of a collective movement alongside our community members whose hopes for the future of this region are just as high as your own.
Our efforts across environmental management, public transport, flood protection, regional parks and water supply are interconnected and integral to treasuring our rohe and growing our future.
How to apply:
Greater Wellington is proud to be a member of Diversity Works. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and welcome the unique talent and experience you will bring to our team.
We are passionate about ensuring our recruitment processes are fair and equitable. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs or adjustments that need to be made so we can offer a recruitment process that is more accessible to you.
This recruitment is being managed by our partners at SWR Group on Greater Wellington’s behalf. To apply for this role, please send your CV and covering letter to graeme@swr.nz or tony@swr.nz quoting reference no. 3884245. Alternatively, to find out more contact Graeme Sandri on 029 248 8502 or Tony Walsh on 029 271 1101.
Applications close: 5.00pm, Monday, 17th March 2025.
However, we will be shortlisting applications as they come in and will interview as soon as possible to secure the right person.
