About the Role - Kōrero mō te Tūranga
In this role, you will be responsible for successfully managing digital projects on MPI's Digital Investment Plan. This includes managing projects through delivery to completion, including managing internal resources, vendors/suppliers/partners, project objectives and expected benefits, risks and issues and financials. You'll be comfortable managing multiple projects concurrently. In addition, you'll prepare and present quality reporting to key stakeholders on project governance boards.
Specifically, you will:
- Mange the delivery of projects, with responsibility for the full project life cycle including handover to operations/BAU.
- Define outcomes, deliverables, success criteria, and controls
- Develop project plans and work schedules, ensuring that dependencies and interdependencies are identified and managed, especially those between technology, operations, and business needs
- Day to day management for the project(s) ensuring it adheres to the MPI Digital Portfolio standards.
- Ensure key milestones and deliverables are delivered to the appropriate levels of quality, on time, within budget, and in accordance with the approved project plan.
- Identify risks and issues and develop/action appropriate mitigation plans and/or escalate as required
- Provide project status reports on milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues
- Maintain effective recordkeeping of all project documentation
- Report to governance boards on project status, risks, and delivery progress
About You - Mōu
To be successful in this role, you'll have significant experience managing digital projects or programmes in a large and complex organisation.
In addition to the above, we are seeking an applicant with:
- Relevant experience in comparable ICT Project Management roles, ideally gained in large, complex environments with a mix of application and infrastructure projects.
- Deliveries in Saas Solutions are preffered.
- Sound knowledge of project management techniques and frameworks and the ability to apply these.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills (senior leadership, technical subject matter experts, business subject matter experts, vendors/suppliers/partners)
- Effective communication skills (written, verbal, interpersonal)
- Proven leadership skills, with a focus on leading project teams to successful outcomes
- Project management qualification/certification ideal
- You do not need to meet all of the role requirements to apply. We offer a breadth of development and learning opportunities and will welcome an application if you think you could make a great fit.
About the Team - Mō tō mātou Rōpū
The role of Business Technology & Information Services (BT&IS) is to enable business technology solutions and deliver high-quality, cost-effective information & technology services to Ministry staff and external stakeholders. The Digital Portfolio Office is within BT&IS.
Projects and programmes of work move fast here and to be part of it will feel exciting as you see the impact of what we do is felt across the whole of MPI.
About MPI - Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua
Our role includes seizing export opportunities for our food and fibre sector, improving sector productivity, ensuring the food we produce is safe, increasing sustainable resource use, and protecting New Zealand from biological risk.
Benefits of working at MPI - Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua
- Additional MPI leave days
- Annual Wellness payment
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
- Reduced premiums for Group Healthcare Schemes
Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.
We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.
In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.
To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.
Applications close at midnight on Sunday 4 May.
If you have any questions about the role, please email Melissa.Heaney@mpi.govt.nz
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