Senior Advisor - Portfolio Management

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

We are the kaitiaki of the land transport network for every person in Aotearoa New Zealand. It's our role to ensure everything in the system - the people, infrastructure, services and vehicles - is integrated. When everything works together, people and freight can travel easily, safely and efficiently.

• Manage the NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi portfolio management practise development and ensure the link to existing project and programme capabilities
• Support enterprise and portfolio level business planning through good planning and portfolio process and excellent working relationships with the delivery portfolios.
• Be proactive about delivering a NZTA business plan by engaging the stakeholders and supporting a 'yearly/continuous planning' approach.
• Be part of an Enterprise Portfolio Management Office that is focused on lifting organisational capability to deliver with efficient and effective practices.
• Flexible working arrangements and opportunities to develop your professional career

The Opportunity | Te Whiwhinga mahi
The Senior Advisor - Portfolio Management will:

• Establish and embed a portfolio management capability across NZTA, including the ongoing support of the Portfolio Offices,
• As a priority, assist with the establishment, embedding, and maintenance of the portfolio financial management, and Enterprise Resource Management processes
• Engage with Portfolio Offices and senior managers on good practise portfolio management and why it is of value to them,
• Support enterprise and portfolio level business planning through good process and excellent working relationships with the delivery portfolios,
• Be proactive about delivering a NZTA business plan by engaging the stakeholders and supporting a 'continuous planning' approach,
• With colleagues in the EPMO and beyond, establish an enterprise capability for portfolio reporting that provides useful insights to business and executive decision making against the business plan,
• Establish and facilitate regular a Portfolio Management Community of Practice that allows for knowledge sharing, best practices, and continuous learning to enhance Portfolio Management effectiveness, and
• Coach and guide the development portfolio management practises and capabilities that enable excellence in business planning and portfolio delivery.

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About you | Ko koe tēnei
The ideal candidate for this role will bring:

• Sound understanding of portfolio management through its practical application in one or more organisations.
• An ability to balance practical, user-oriented approach to frameworks with expected good practice and understands the difference between core principles that must be applied and what can be adapted to suit portfolio circumstances.
• A strong understanding of business planning, portfolio selection and portfolio delivery and how to raise that capability in an organisation.
• Experience in provision of senior management level reporting on delivery performance and is proactive about getting targets to where they need to be.
• A desire to share what you have with others, while maintaining your own expertise.
• Curiosity about how things work and will look for opportunities to make things work better and more efficiently for those who use our services. You will make sure that changes can be adopted by our portfolios.
• A drive to ensure that 'practise becomes permanent' and that our embedded capability leads to good delivery outcomes.
• Collaboration and joined up thinking: we need to strengthen all parts of our P3M system. This will include working with colleagues in other parts of NZTA Waka Kotahi.
• An ability to see stakeholder's points of view and express decisions and other information in their language.

About us | Ko wai mātou
The EPMO team exist to ensure we are helping NZTA make the right change, the right way through the strategic alignment between our change initiatives and the organisation's objectives and outcomes, and to lead collaboration, consistency and connection in a way that creates an overall improvement in the results of change initiatives for the organisation.

In that regard, this role provides portfolio management expertise across our organisation. Business planning is considered part of the 'portfolio definition' component of portfolio management. The role will work directly with Portfolio Offices to see that the core principals are embedded in portfolio practice, so that good practice portfolio definition and delivery practices are well understood, embedded and applied.

The role works with our financial, investment, performance and assurance services to plan outcomes that can be successfully delivered and add measurable value.We work across the delivery portfolios and with our other colleagues in NZTA to ensure we can be successful together.

We have a challenging roadmap of improvements to implement over the next couple of years and we are committed to seeing the roadmap done and done well.

Along with our other benefits we also have new Waka Kotahi Life, Income Protection and Critical Illness Insurance scheme available for permanent employees. Others include:

• 5 weeks annual leave, 15 days sick leave after 3 years' service
• Annual flu vaccinations, health checks and eye tests
• A well-being initiative supporting activities that make a difference to both physical and mental well-being
• Service recognition programme.

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, APPLY now submitting your CV along with your cover letter detailing your suitability.

Applications Close:
Wednesday 8th May 2024

For further information, email: careers@nzta.govt.nz

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

NZTA| Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.

Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.