Head of Crown Property at Land Information New Zealand, Waikato

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Member of the Senior Leadership Team
• Drive connection and integration internally and with our partners
• Wellington, Hamilton, or Christchurch location

Te Tākinatanga - Our Story

At Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand, our key role is to ensure New Zealanders have accurate information about where people and places are, that people have confidence in their property rights and that Crown property is well managed for future generations.

Guided by the whakataukī ‘Whatungarongaro te tangata toitū te whenua' (people come and go, but the land remains), our purpose is ‘understanding, developing and caring for whenua, moana and arawai'.

We have recently embarked on an exciting change at Toitū Te Whenua that is focused on how we can be more integrated and connected internally, and with our customers, and how we can work in different ways to help us be as successful as we can be.

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

As a Head of Function, this role is part of Toitū te Whenua's Senior Leadership Team and contributes to strategy, operations, and governance at an organisational level. You will work collectively with your colleagues to drive connection and integration across Toitū Te Whenua and partners, including Iwi and Hapū.

Reporting to the Kaihautū Customer Delivery, as the Head of Crown Property you will be part of the Customer Delivery Leadership Team and accountable for the delivery of the Crown Property work programme and a group of approximately 100 staff.  

You will be responsible for the effective management of approximately 2 million hectares of the Crown Estate and 7,000 properties, including pastoral land in the South Island high country, lakebeds and riverbeds, Crown forest land, and a broad range of residential and commercial properties, closed schools, courthouses and prisons.  You will work with frameworks by which Crown agencies can buy and sell land, make statutory decisions under delegation, and provide technical advice to government on Crown land issues.  You will also lead our biosecurity programme which specialises in aquatic and land-based pest and weed management.

In doing this, you work collectively to drive connection and integration across Toitū Te Whenua and external partnerships, including Iwi and Hapū, ensuring a te ao Māori perspective is applied, and shapes how we deliver our work.

He pūkenga tou - Skills & Experience

Given the large-scale, operational nature of the group, you will be a seasoned senior leader with strong operational management experience. Your leadership reflects the whakataukī for how we work together to achieve our ‘one team, one organisation' goals. Waiho i te toipoto, kaua i te toiroa. Let us keep close together, not far apart.

You understand the value of connections and partner to establish networks across our organisation and externally. You have exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills and will ultimately use these to deliver high-quality services for our staff, customers, stakeholders, Iwi, and New Zealand as a whole.

In summary, you will be:

• A strategic thinker with sound commercial acumen and financial management skills
• A seasoned operational leader and manager
• Customer-focused with strong stakeholder engagement skills
• Already on a Te Ao Māori journey and personally committed to a partnership approach
• Fun, relatable, down-to-earth, transparent, and politically savvy
• Resilient and able to lead through change

Due to the flexibility and agility, we are continuing to build on as an organisation, the home office for this position is Wellington, but can be based in one of our three locations: Wellington, Christchurch, or Hamilton. Some travel may be required.

Ngā mea e tukuna ana e tātau - What we offer our employees

• Interesting work which impacts NZ
• Eye & ear care reimbursements
• Annual Flu Vaccinations
• Reduced health insurance premiums
• Diverse groups and networks

As an organisation Toitū Te Whenua embraces diversity, encourages work-life balance, and we have a flexible approach to the way we work which means you will quickly feel connected and valued.  Toitū Te Whenua is one of the most engaged organisations in the public sector and people always say what a great place Toitū Te Whenua is to work.

Tono mai - How to Apply

This recruitment is being handled by Niche Recruitment and applications/discussions should be addressed to and by them via the contact details below. Any applications made here will be sent directly to Niche.

For more information about this influential opportunity, please contact Jane Temel on 021 499 902 - jane.temel@nicherecruitment.co.nz or Lourdes Turconi on 022 6022 087 - lourdes.turconi@nicherecruitment.co.nz

To apply, please submit your covering letter and CV to Niche by the closing date of 31 August 2022.