This role reflects Napier City Council’s determination to see Napier thrive and prosper right across its community. To be successful, you will be an engaging, forward-thinking strategic people influencer and delivery-focused leader. If you are an enabler who can demonstrate a career history where you have been involved in implementing transformational and innovative organisational change programmes, then this opportunity could be perfect for you.
Napier City Council is a substantive Hawke’s Bay entity, employing a hugely capable and varied workforce of over 700 employees. Their goal is to provide the facilities, services and an environment of leadership, encouragement, and economic opportunity that makes Napier a truly liveable city and a great place in which to love, work, raise a family and enjoy a safe and satisfying life.
As programme manager in the strategy and transformation team, your role will have considerable scope that will see you taking the helm to design, plan and lead the execution of emerging work programmes to enable growth and build resilience within the Council and community. These programmes vary in scale and scope but are all focused on ensuring that the Council is best placed to respond and readily adapt to the needs of the community now and well into the future. Your knowledge and understanding of sound business planning processes and project management will guide the delivery approach for this team and have influence far and wide. It is a true end-to-end strategic and delivery role. You will sit across some high profile pieces of work. Therefore, you will comfortably and credibly engage with a broad range of stakeholders, including with the elected members, the executive leadership team and your own team of project managers.
The nature, scope and impact of this leadership opportunity will be an exceptional career move for the right person. We need someone with who can cope with the pressure that comes with having many balls in the air. Tertiary-qualified, you will be experienced in corporate, strategic, and/or business planning, or with a broad programme management background. Ideally, you will understand and appreciate the nuances and obligations of working in the public service. By nature, you are someone who can see the big picture and put schedules and project plans together. You enjoy identifying and encouraging opportunities for information sharing, collaboration and building partnerships. This is a great opportunity to step into a highly regarded and critical role within Council. Applications will close at 5pm on Thursday, 11 July 2024.
If you have right expertise and you are ready for a move into a challenging role here in the sunny Hawke's Bay, then please apply through this portal or phone the team at Populous People to learn more on 06 875 8446. 
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