INZ
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Tēnei Tūranga – About the role
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The INZ Learning Lead role sits within the Talent & Development Centre of Expertise (CoE). The role is responsible for leading the full spectrum of learning for Immigration New Zealand (INZ) (excluding learning delivery) and will manage a team consisting of a Senior L&D Advisor (Learning Projects) and other resources both internal and external as required.
This role collaborates with the Head of People and Culture for INZ, the Learning and Development Manager, other INZ Learning team members, external suppliers, subject matter experts and key stakeholders across INZ to have oversight of all INZ learning, ensure delivery of MBIE’s learning priorities and manage the overall direction and governance for all programmes.
The INZ Learning Lead is responsible for building and enhancing capability of the team to ensure quality and consistency of learning practices and advice in relation to the team’s work as well as oversight of INZ’s learning budget.
This role reports into the L&D Manager within the Learning and Development team and is positioned in Wellington.
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Ngā Herenga – Requirements of the role
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Skills and Experience
- Experience in articulating clear L&D value propositions for a business audience and actively demonstrating the value of learning to the business
- Experience in leading a high performing team
- Broad and in depth understanding of how a complex business operates and where and how L&D can make a strategic contribution
- Strong business and L&D acumen; expert applied problem solving skills, critical thinking, solution focus and initiative
- Strong relationship building skills; ideally with track record of building credible expert relationships with internal and external stakeholders, influencing to deliver the best outcomes, and providing appropriate challenge when necessary
- Strong planning, prioritisation and execution skills; attentive to details and deadlines; ability to manage multiple initiatives.
- Ability to be flexible and to quickly adapt to the needs of a business’s changing demands
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, to suit a range of stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment and to develop and maintain effective work relationships, maintaining trust and credibility with managers and staff.
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Qualifications
- Extensive and comparable experience in organisational capability development or learning and development.
- Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand
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Takohanga Tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
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Key Deliverables and Areas of Success
Leadership
- Oversight and leadership of the day to day work of the team.
- Appropriately assigns tasks and projects and monitors and reports on progress to ensure deliverables and timeframes are met
- Leads the strategy for INZ Learning.
- Leads the team in a way that inspires trust, respect and continuous improvement in performance.
- Appropriately assigns tasks and monitors and reports on progress to ensure deliverables and timeframes are met.
- Day to day management of INZ learning programmes excluding projects.
- Provides input into the MBIE L&D strategy and direction.
- Maintains oversight of the INZ Learning Budget and ensures that the budget is spent to achieve the best business outcomes
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- Partnership
- Works in partnership as a trusted advisor to leaders and key stakeholders within INZ.
- Works closely with the INZ Learning Delivery Team to ensure fit for purpose learning is designed to meet the business needs.
- Works in partnership to assess capability needs, lead learning needs analysis, and develop strategic solutions in collaboration with business stakeholders.
- Builds a clear and shared understanding of INZ’s priority capability shifts required to solve business problems and deliver on business outcomes.
- Leads the development and maintenance of learning resources to ensure currency and applicability.
- Builds strong collaborative relationships with the business to support their ownership and implementation of their L&D strategy.
- The escalation point for all INZ learning programmes.
- Builds strong relationships with external providers to provide additional design resource when required.
- Strategic Direction
- Manages the development of an annual learning plan in collaboration with key stakeholders, Talent & Development and other HR team members.
- Drives the delivery of the Learning Plan. This includes:
- Setting processes and ensuring they are available to managers and key stakeholders.
- Ensuring this plan is developed to cater for business specific change strategies and develops processes for this to occur.
- Working closely with the Head of People & Culture INZ and the L&D Manager to identify what strategies and plans need to be in place.
- Ensuring integration of wider MBIE learning programmes
- Writing papers to gain sign off on learning programmes or initiatives
- Provides learning advice to key stakeholders across INZ.
- Responsible for the governance of learning programmes including a key member of INZ learning governance groups.
- Manages the INZ learning budget and identifies gaps, future challenges and gives strategic advice on spending.
Wellbeing, Health & Safety
- Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives
- Ensures own and others safety at all times
- Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting
- Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion
- Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation
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- This role holds the following delegations:
- FINANCIAL
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- Nil
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- Reporting
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Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū - Your place in the Ministry
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The INZ Learning Lead sits in the Learning and Development team within the People & Culture branch. The branch sits within the Ngā Pou o te Taumaru group.
For further information on the MBIE structure see here.
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To Mātou Aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand
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Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose, Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All.
To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.
As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world. We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders. We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).
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Matatautanga – Competencies (Leadership Success Profile)
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The Leadership Success Profile (LSP) is a leadership capability framework, developed by the New Zealand public sector for the New Zealand public sector. It creates a common language for leadership and establishes what great leadership looks like. You can look at the twelve underpinning capabilities and four leadership characters here: Leadership Success Profile | Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission
As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti). Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All. The principles of Te Tiriti - including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work. MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 9 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.
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Mahi I roto I te ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the Public Service
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Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.
In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.
You can find out more about what this means at (https://www.publicservice.govt.nz/abou