Head of Commissioning at NZ WorkSafe, All Office Locations

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Educate, guide and engage NZ employers and workforce
• Salary band: $176,446 - $232,475
• Tier three leadership role 

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the function that shapes relevant, impactful educational interventions and guidance strategies aligned with new and existing legislation.  

Mo tātou – About Us 

WorkSafe New Zealand/Mahi Haumaru Aotearoa is dedicated to lifting New Zealand's health and safety performance, supporting everyone to return home from work healthy and safe.  As the primary health and safety at work regulator, they are committed to influencing businesses to carry out their responsibilities for managing risks and ensuring work is healthy and safe by using a range of regulatory tools to achieve that.    

• Whakakotahi – we're united in a strong purpose
• Kōrero mai – we engage meaningfully
• Tiakina mai – we're entrusted with a duty of care 

Ko tōu ake mahi – What you'll do 

WorkSafe is looking for a proven leader to align the functions that shape regulatory and operational policy, and to drive effective and efficient interventions.  Collaborating with leaders across the organisation, you will ensure that WorkSafe's regulatory advice is sound, and guidance and other resources are targeted and produced to a high standard creating clear consistent messaging that educates and informs businesses and workers about their responsibilities and accountabilities.  Under your guidance, you will establish effective programme management systems and service design processes to ensure teams prioritise effectively, adopting a well-planned, coordinated, approach.  Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that educational materials and guidance comply with new and existing legislation and is relevant to, and has impact within, its target audience and sectors is a critical to success.  

Ko ngā pukenga ōu - What you'll bring 

• Experience in bringing a diverse range of people and perspectives together to deliver outcomes that require a whole of organisation view. 
• Proven experience aligning teams and establishing processes and practices that create a culture of accountability and the environment to deliver high quality, coherent programmes of work. 
• Experience implementing a service design methodology that supports rapid testing and codesign. Partnering with internal and external stakeholders to deliver products and/or services that drive sustained behavioural change at a sector level.
• Executive disposition and a proven ability to effectively engage with and influence executive stakeholders.
• An understanding of Kaupapa Māori and the targeted needs of Pasifika and vulnerable kaimahi. 

Me pēhea te tono - How to apply 

This search is being managed by H2R on behalf of WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru Aotearoa.  

To apply for this position please visit www.h2r.co.nz, quoting reference number 930486. For further information please contact Shane Mackay on 04 4999 471 or email Shane.mackay@h2r.co.nz.  All applications will be acknowledged by email. 

Applications close Sunday 6 April.