Programme Manager - Remote

Overview

Lead one of New Zealand’s most significant public-sector digital transformation programmes, playing a pivotal role in delivering IRIS NextGen, a complex, multi-year programme to modernise regulatory systems across regional councils nationwide.

In Short

• Permanent, full-time role
• Fully flexible location (work from home, with council offices available as required)
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the IRIS NextGen programme
• Coordinate multiple concurrent council implementations
• Ensure programme planning aligns to best practice
• Provide clear, timely reporting to senior stakeholders
• Embed robust programme and change management disciplines
• Work collaboratively with councils and technology partners
• Shape good practice in software transformation
• Influence without authority in a complex delivery environment

Requirements

• Proven experience leading complex digital or enterprise software programmes
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and SaaS implementations
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement skills
• Confidence managing tight delivery timelines
• Strategic mindset with hands-on delivery discipline
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience working with councils or collaborative sector programmes is highly regarded

Benefits

• Opportunity to lead a programme that matters to councils and communities
• Work with diverse stakeholder groups
• Shape the future of regional regulation
• Collaborate on a national scale
• Flexible work arrangements