About This Role
This Chief People Officer role leads the Ministry's people and workforce strategy during a period of significant change, including rising expectations, fiscal pressure, rapid technological advancements, and major transformation across courts and justice services. The position requires an enterprise leader who can provide a clear people perspective on key decisions and translate strategy into sustained action across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Set the strategic direction for People Experience
- Lead the development, delivery, and review of the Ministry's people and workforce strategies
- Ensure workforce priorities anticipate future needs and enable technology-led and operating-model change, including Te Au Reka and Te Pae Tāwhiti
- Provide strategic challenge and trusted, evidence-informed advice on organizational performance, workforce opportunities, and emerging people risks
- Anticipate future workforce, leadership, and capability needs
- Shape the workforce response to transformation and new ways of working
- Embed workforce insight, forecasting, and evidence in enterprise decisions
- Deliver connected, responsive, and high-quality people services
- Provide authoritative leadership on employment relations, organizational change, and complex people matters
- Build a high-performing leadership team and a culture of accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement
Requirements
- Strong record of setting and delivering enterprise people and workforce strategies
- Experience translating organizational strategy into clear workforce, leadership, and capability priorities
- Success leading a broad people function that combines strategic influence with trusted operational delivery
- Deep expertise in employment relations, organizational change, and contemporary people practice
- Ability to turn workforce data and insight into sound enterprise decisions
- Strong understanding of the machinery of government and the wider public sector environment
- Judgment, courage, and credibility to influence chief executives, executive teams, and senior leaders
- Record of building high-performing leadership teams and achieving results through others
- Commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, strengthening cultural capability and inclusion, and creating an environment where people can thrive
Important Details
- Application deadline: Sunday 15 November 2026
Application Process
- Submit your CV and cover letter
- Applications will be reviewed as they arrive, and candidates may be invited to interview before the closing date
