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Job Title
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Group Manager, Kāhui Rautaki Māori
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Reports to
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Group Chief Executive Officer – Sport NZ Group
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Organisation Group
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Kāhui Rautaki Māori
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Direct reports
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Toihautu Principal Advisor Māori, Rautaki Māori Operations Manager, Kaiwhatu Rautaki Māori (Māori Strategy & Policy), He Oranga Poutama, Kaiwhatu Mana Ōrite
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Location
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Wellington
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Employment Status
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Full-time, permanent
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About us: Sport New Zealand Group
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Sport New Zealand (Sport NZ) and High Performance Sport New Zealand (HPSNZ) have a shared purpose – to contribute to the wellbeing of everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand. Together we believe that growing the quality of participation opportunities helps to maximise wellbeing and feeds the pathway to elite sport, and our success on the world stage in turn helps inspire participation.
Sport NZ is a kaitiaki (guardian) of the play, active recreation and sport system in Aotearoa New Zealand.
HPSNZ leads the high performance sport system, supporting athletes and coaches to deliver performances on the world stage that inspire the nation and our communities, helping to build national identity and promote New Zealand internationally.
As a crown agency, Sport NZ and HPSNZ promotes and supports quality experiences in play, active recreation, and sport, including high performance sport, to improve levels of physical activity and ensure the greatest impact on wellbeing for all New Zealanders. Together, Sport NZ and HPSNZ (the Sport NZ Group) provide end-to-end leadership of the system in partnership with our key National Sport Organisations (NSOs).
Tā Mātou Ōhaki - Our Commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
The Sport NZ Group, including HPSNZ, is committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi through the enactment of the Treaty Principles, Partnership, Protection, Participation. As a Crown Entity we are a partner to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and with that comes an accountability and responsibility to uphold the mana of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Sport NZ and HPSNZ are also committed to building a bi-cultural foundation and future that acknowledges:
• Our past - Sport NZ is committed to upholding the mana of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
• Our present - Sport NZ is a kaitiaki of the play, active recreation, and sport system.
• Our future - enabling opportunities for tangata whenua and all New Zealanders to participate and succeed.
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Ā Mātou Mauri - Our Culture
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- Kia pono ki te kaupapa - authentic to the purpose.
- Kia tika te mahi - act with integrity.
- Me aroha ki te tangata - respect for others.
These values have inspired the names of our mauri pounamu that found us at the Arahura River with the guidance of Te Whānau Weepu from Te Tai Poutini. They are a tangible reminder of our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori, they are naturally becoming more deeply embedded in our organisation influencing behaviours, actions and providing both guidance and reassurance as we navigate unchartered waters on our cultural hīkoi.
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Our Vision: Every Body Active
Our Purpose: To contribute to the wellbeing of everybody in Aotearoa New Zealand by leading the Play, Active Recreation and Sport System.
Strategically, we are focused on:
- Tamariki (aged 5-11) and rangatahi (aged 12-18); reducing the drop off in physical activity of young people and increasing the physical activity levels in children and young people who are currently less active.
- Increasing the variety of culturally distinctive pathways in physical activity for tangata whenua and all New Zealanders.
- Ensuring that the play, active recreation, and sport system is more impactful, inclusive, trusted and reflects the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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High Performance Sport New Zealand
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Our Vision: Inspiring Performance Every Day
HPSNZ exists to enable and empower world class sporting performances that inspire New Zealanders in an environment that values wellbeing. We achieve this by working in partnership with NSOs and key stakeholders to enhance a world leading sustainable high performance sport system that empowers athletes to excel on the world stage.
Strategically, we are focused on achieving systems shifts in the following areas:
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Wellbeing and Engagement
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Enriching performance environments will empower and support individuals to optimise their potential and enhance their ability to thrive in their sporting and non-sporting lives. We also remain committed to supporting NSOs in their focus on addressing the issues of athlete voice and gender equity in high performance sport leadership and coaching roles.
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Performance Pathways
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Greatly enhanced performance pathways delivering an accessible national performance network for the development of future talent, while providing our elite athletes with the support they need to become world class.
Performance pathways are designed to support the identification and development of athletes and coaches who have the potential to win on the world stage, while supporting our elite athletes in their endeavours.
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Funding and Investment
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An expanded funding and investment framework with greater agility, enabling investment in more sports, more athletes to be identified earlier and more communities engaged and inspired by New Zealand’s success.
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Te Kaupapa o te Mahi - Job Purpose
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As a member of the Sport NZ Group Executive Team the incumbent will provide strategic leadership and influence across Sport NZ and HPSNZ.
The purpose of this role is to provide Te Ao Māori leadership and strategic direction that is underpinned by our Te Tiriti o Waitangi commitment and through the principles of Partnership, Protection and Participation operating across the entire Sport NZ Group. The role will be responsible for giving life to - and acting as a Kaitiaki of - specific Māori strategies and policies with a focus on improving outcomes for Māori, and removing inequities within the play, active recreation, and sport system.
The Group Manager Kāhui Rautaki Māori is responsible for:
- Leading the Kāhui Rautaki Maori Team
- Supporting the Group Executive Team and each business team to raise their cultural capability and delivery to achieve Te Pākē (Māori Outcomes Framework) and Te Aho (Māori activation Plan)
- Providing strategic advice and cultural guidance to the Group Chief Executive and Group Executive Leadership Team
- Developing a bi-cultural approach across the Group, and
- Building a plan to lift Māori cultural capability across the sector.
As determined through the Governance review, a new Taumata Māori will be established by the Sport NZ Board to support the strategic decision making of both entities in relation to Te Tiriti commitments and providing expert advice. The Kāhui Rautaki Māori will support the work of Te Taumata Māori, operationalising the strategies.
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Strategic Leadership & Delivery
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- Planning, implementing, and reviewing the organisation’s strategic objectives as a member of the Group Executive Team (GET).
- Ensuring planning and implementation of work aligns with the Sport NZ Group strategic objectives and other activity across the group.
- Supporting the Group CEO and Group Executive Team in areas of Te Ao Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi to enhance Sport NZ’s performance, by providing accurate and timely information as required, including preparing board reports, ministerial documentation, financial reporting and other information as required.
- Taking an active role in shaping strategic thinking and future service delivery by engaging in conversations at GET about strategic issues that affect SportNZ/HPSNZ as a whole.
- Actively modelling and championing a customer-first approach to maximising service delivery.
- Collaborating across all functions of the Sport NZ Group, sharing information, and communicating effectively to the benefit of all stakeholders.
- Leading in a manner consistent with the values and behaviours aligned to the Māori concepts of Pono, Tika and Aroha.
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Organisational Development & People Leadership
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- Leading in an authentic and transparent manner that promotes and sustains employee wellbeing and creates a culture in which Pono, Tika and Aroha are modelled so that people can work at their best.
- Inspiring and reinforcing a bi-cultural and customer-first approach to how the team works and engages across the organisation.
- Supporting the Group Executive Team’s development and aspirations for a bi-cultural approach.
- Promoting and reinforcing the application of insight/data informed decisions and project management disciplines.
- Facilitating ongoing cultural and professional development within the Group.
- Effectively managing employees in line with current legislation, employment contracts and internal policies.
- Managing and optimising the use of allocated financial resources, ensuring that people are clear on financial delegations and related policies.
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Leadership – Te Kāhui Rautaki Māori
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- Leading the Rautaki Māori team and ensuring there is Māori voice at the Group Executive level, and across Sport NZ and HPSNZ.
- Providing strategic direction to opportunities and challenges across Sport NZ and HPSNZ that will give effect to Te Pākē (Māori Outcomes Framework) and deliver Te Aho (Māori Activation Plan), achieving mutual benefits for Māori.
- Leading the ongoing development of Māori strategy, policy and processes for the Sport NZ Group and sector, to ensure Te Ao Māori is integrated and Te Tiriti o Waitangi is upheld.
- Supporting the Rautaki Māori Group to work with teams across Sport NZ and HPSNZ to ensure the Sport NZ Group is giving effect to our Te Tiriti commitment.
- Maintaining and establishing effective and enduring partnerships and meaningful networks with iwi, government agencies and the Sport sector, so that Sport NZ and HPSNZ’s strategies are well understood, supported, and recognised.
- Overseeing the shaping, sharing, and implementing of related strategic plans and service-enhancements that best deliver on Te Pākē and Te Aho.
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Relationship Management & Stakeholder Engagement
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- Representing Sport NZ at meetings with external agencies, iwi, and other stakeholders as appropriate.
- Strengthening and developing partnerships with Māori-led sport and health organisations, iwi, and other government agencies.
- Promoting, developing, and managing cross-government relationships where there are mutual outcomes.
- Promoting the interests of Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi across the sector.
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Matrix Collaborations
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- Managing matrix reporting and collaboration with the Director of HPSNZ and Senior Leadership Team to ensure integration of Te Pākē and Te Aho to HPSNZ strategy and delivery of enabling Te Kāhui Rautaki Māori Services.
- Ensuring the Rautaki Māori Group are working with all parts of the organisation, especially customer/stakeholder facing teams, to integrate a bi-cultural approach and improve outcomes for Māori.
- Leading strong collaboration across the Sport NZ Group to ensure the Rautaki Māori Group are integrated with and working alongside all parts of the business to advance the interest of Māori and our commitments to Te Tiriti o Waitangi are being upheld, to achieve our strategic objectives.
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Health & Safety
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- All Sport NZ staff have a responsibility to work towards maintaining a safe and healthy work environment for both work colleagues and visitors, including contractors. This is achieved by:
- Practicing and encouraging safe work methods, using resources and equipment appropriately.
- Taking all reasonable and appropriate steps to minimise and where possible, eliminate the risk of harm or injury to others.
- Reporting all workplace hazards, incidents or near misses to the appropriate person or authority.
- Individual ownership of personalised wellbeing initiatives that are supported by Sport NZ.
- Sport NZ health, safety & wellbeing policies and processes are observed and implemented on time and to standard.
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Key Relationships
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Internal
- Sport NZ Group CEO
- Sport NZ Group Executive Team
- Director of High Performance
- HPSNZ Senior Leadership Team
- Taumata Māori
- Managers and staff across the Sport NZ Group (Sport NZ and HPSNZ)
External
- Iwi and Māori groups/organisations
- Te Puni Kōkiri
- Te Arawhiti
- Iwi Chairs Forum
- Māori Health Authority
- Māori National Sport Organisations
- Regional Sports Trusts (RSTs)
- National Recreation Partners (NROs)
- National Sports Organisations (NSOs)
- Territorial Authorities (TAs)
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Person Specifications
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Experience/Qualifications
- Proven experience leading a portfolio of similar functions/teams in a complex organisation, with a range of disciplines.
- Significant knowledge and understanding of Māori values and knowledge, including contextual background.
- Strong and well-respected working relationships with iwi across New Zealand.
- Understanding of ability to effectively communicate Māori needs, values, norms, and aspirations.
- A good understanding of the play, active recreation and sport sector and the importance of physical activity to health.
- Knowledge and experience in government environments, with experience in policy and programme implementation for Māori.
- Experience developing and implementing strategy across a wide range of stakeholders including staff, management, governance, and external stakeholders/sector.
- Experienced senior trusted advisor at CEO and Executive level.
- Track record in successful programme management and service delivery.
- Experience in managing significant budgets and business processes.
- Understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a Crown Agency and an awareness of the wider social and political context in which this operates.
- Working knowledge of, and commitment to, Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
- Connection to and mana with iwi groups, Māori leaders and other important Māori figures.
- Established networks and trusted relationships with Māori organisations and stakeholders.
Capabilities and Attributes
- Strong Māori identify with well developed bicultural ease and confidence.
- Fluent in Te Reo Māori, with proven experience and application of Tikanga Māori.
- Awareness of, and sensitivity to, cultural diversity, within Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Ability to develop, communicate and enable a vision through collaborative actions to build a high performing organisation/team.
- Understanding of the place of the Sport NZ Group and of its potential contribution to achieving outcomes for Māori, and all New Zealanders.
- Politically and organisationally savvy – able to navigate, collaborate and get things done in complex environments.
- Exceptional judgment and decision-making skills and the ability to use these effectively under pressure.
- Proven skills in attracting, appointing, developing, and retaining top talent.
- Ability to lead, coach and motivate people to be their best.
- Ability to implement matrix-reporting/collaboration ways of working.
- Ability to understand and articulate Māori stakeholder needs and preferences.
- Highly developed relationship management skills, and the ability to relate to people at all levels.
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Public Service Commission
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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.