Organisational Transformation Delivery Enablement Lead at Maritime New Zealand, Wellington

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

 Mō mātou | About Us

 Our Vision: Preventing Harm. Saving Lives. Securing our Future

We play a key role in the guardianship of New Zealand waterways. We’re bringing together our aroha, work and skills to achieve our outcomes of sustainable supply chains and sectors, safe people and operations, secure ports and ships, and clean seas and waterways.

Our values are about who we are as individuals and the behaviours we expect from each other at Maritime NZ.

Care | Kia Tika - We care for each other and do the right thing

Connect | Kotahitanga - We unite in a common purpose

Courage | Kia Māia - We are brave, capable and confident 

Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the team

The CE Office, Strategy and People Group brings together strategy, governance, performance, and organisational capability to set direction and support delivery across Maritime NZ.

Within this, the Organisational Transformation function ensures our people, systems, and processes evolve together as we deliver our strategy. It brings together multidisciplinary teams to design and roll out new policies, practices, and digital tools, and to support leaders and teams to adopt new ways of working.

Te tūnga | The role 

Maritime NZ is undergoing a period of change to strengthen its sustainability and future focus. Following an organisational redesign, we are recruiting into a number of newly shaped roles that support our shift toward more efficient, digitally enabled ways of working, helping position us for the future.

This is a senior delivery leadership role focused on enabling effective, coordinated delivery of Maritime NZ’s organisational transformation programme. As Organisational Transformation Delivery Enablement Lead, you’ll supporting the business leads to deliver to across multiple interconnected projects under Te Korowai o Kaitiakitanga.

Rather than owning delivery directly, you’ll work through influence to ensure initiatives are aligned, well-sequenced and focused on outcomes.

Key areas of focus include:

• Enabling coordinated delivery across a complex, multi-year transformation programme
• Maintaining a system-wide view of initiatives, including dependencies, risks and overlaps
• Supporting Business Leads and Product Owners to deliver aligned, outcome-focused work
• Helping sequence and prioritise work into manageable, meaningful delivery increments
• Establishing and embedding fit-for-purpose delivery practices
• Identifying and removing delivery barriers, bottlenecks and cross-cutting issues
• Supporting sustainable delivery through realistic planning and continuous improvement
• Facilitating collaboration across policy, digital, operational and user-centred teams
• Building organisational capability in delivery practices and ways of working

This role is central to ensuring transformation is delivered in a coherent, coordinated and sustainable way across the organisation.

Nōu te rourou | What you bring

You’re an experienced delivery or transformation professional who thrives in complexity. You bring strong systems thinking and the ability to influence across large, multi-faceted environments.

You will bring:

• Experience working across complex programmes or portfolios with multiple delivery owners
• Strong understanding of adaptive delivery approaches in uncertain and evolving environments
• Proven ability to identify dependencies, risks and systemic delivery issues
• Experience navigating competing priorities and resolving cross-programme tensions
• Ability to apply delivery disciplines (planning, risks, dependencies) pragmatically
• Strong facilitation, communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to influence outcomes without direct authority
• A focus on outcomes, continuous improvement and long-term capability building
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities

Mōu | For you 

Maritime NZ recognises and respects te Tiriti o Waitangi and we are committed to working with Māori to build strong, meaningful and enduring relationships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.  

We aim to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported with a sense of belonging. We encourage our people to actively contribute to our workplace culture where we all thrive and authentically live our MNZ values.

Upon joining us you’ll receive a full range of benefits including Income Protection & Life Insurance. Check out our full range on our careers page to find out more about why we love working here.  

Salary range $140,735 - $171,946 depending on skills and experience + superannuation. 

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply

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We're committed to ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. Please reach out to our recruitment team below if there is any support we can provide to ensure the process is accessible to you.

Applications for this role close 16^th July 2026. Please also note that you must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be considered for this role.

If you have any questions please e-mail Careers@maritimenz.govt.nz