Lead Product Owner at NZ Police, Wellington

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Lead Product Owner, it starts with you!

• Based at Police National Headquarters
• Band J
• Salary from $102,178
• Fixed term for 30 months
• Police Employee/ Constabulary
• JR4450535

About the role

The National Road Policing Centre (NRPC) provides important services to the Commissioner and Police Executive team in respect of the prevention of injury and death on our roads. Within NRPC, the Police Infringement Bureau (PIB) contributes to the trust and confidence in Police through the professional handling of a range of services for all infringement notices issued by Police.

The PIB is looking to recruit a forward-thinking and innovative Lead Product Owner to drive the development of the PIB’s new infringement handling operating system, PIMS (Police Infringement Management System), which will replace PIPS (Police Infringement Processing System), the current system.

The Lead Product Owner (PIMS) will play an important role in contributing to the design of the new operating system. The Lead Product Owner will act as the voice of the customer (PIB) providing the product vision for PIMS to ensure that the end product delivers stakeholder requirements and adds value to the business.

The position will be instrumental in leading and embedding change in respect to future enhancements.

As well as working alongside PIB and ICT in the design and delivery of the solution, the Lead Product Owner will work collaboratively with the Infringement Transformation Programme (ITP) to contribute to achieving the goals of the Officer Issued Infringement (OII) workstream.

This position is challenging and provides multiple opportunities including leading a team of Subject Matter Experts to enable product enhancement, project management, training, and adherence to legislative requirements.
 

Key Accountabilities:

• Collaborate with business owners, stakeholders and end users to understand their needs and goals.
• Work with ICT and other stakeholders to ensure Functional and Non-Functional requirements align with the business needs.
• Make decisions (with an agreed mandate) regarding the product requirements and solution design, based on detailed understanding of the value the requirements bring to the business. 
• Lead a team of subject matter experts to determine multiple stakeholder requirements and priorities.
• Provide input into ICT’s design and build processes: remove roadblocks, make decisions, and provide product direction and prioritisation.
• Provide regular progress updates to stakeholders including assisting with change management requirements, such as impact assessments and hand-over to ‘business as usual’.
• Assess the risks of proposed development solutions, including those to delivery milestones, budgets, and other products, making decisions on mitigation strategies.
• Plan the deployment of PIMS including input into training.

What you’ll bring

Being part of the Police whānau is about being our best to ensure our communities are safe and feel safe. Our Core Competencies provide a shared understanding of the behaviours, leadership and technical competence required for success at each level of Police. Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.

 Skills and experience – we are looking for someone with:

• An ability to understand and prioritise stakeholder requirements
• The ability to think conceptually to recommend improvements and future enhancements (for doing things differently from how they may have been done in the past)
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills
• Problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• A detailed understanding of Police Infringement Bureau operations and wider Police business would be an advantage
• Experience working in or a sound understanding of an Agile environment and project management skills would be advantageous.
• Current enrollment in, or application to enroll in the CEP leadership programme for the level appropriate to your current role or rank.)

This role is set at Team Leader/Manager level, this means your key purpose is “to lead the activities for Our Business and enable people to deliver them.”

We will ask you questions based on “How we will deliver Our Business – Core Competencies” and the appropriate role level, i.e. Individual Contributor. For more information on Our Core Competencies, please copy and paste this URL:  https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/core-competencies-how-we-will-deliver-our-business.pdf

These questions will be unique and specific to the role, focusing on the aspects the hiring manager believes are most important for that position at the time. For more information on Our Values, please copy and paste this URL:

https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/nzp-our-values.pdf

To view the position description for this role please copy and paste this link into a new browser:
https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/pd/01-2023/lead_product_owner_-_police_infringement_management_system_1.pdf

About us

Our mission is to prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing.  Our vision is to be the safest country.  Our purpose is to ensure everybody can be safe and feel safe.

Special requirements

For Police Employee applicants:

• Registered interest via the link or enrolment in the CEP leadership programme at the advertised level  

Working Flexibly

Your wellbeing inside and outside of work is important to us. We’re open to discussing flexible working options that work for both you and the business.

For more information on the above, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/careers

How to apply 

Please note: Applications submitted directly through the Government Jobs Website are no longer considered. Please visit our Police Careers page: https://career10.successfactors.com/career?company=nzpolice to apply for this position.

If this position sounds like you, click apply now. You will be required to submit an application form and a CV. Before confirmation of hire, pre-employment checks will be undertaken.

For further information on the application process, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/careers

If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact deepa.shankar@police.govt.nz

Applications close Thursday 2nd February 2023.