Head - Leadership & Culture

• A great role for a proven leader who wants to make a significant leadership and cultural capability contribution to our organisation.
• Newly created role, permanent/full-time (37.5 hours per week).
• Te Awamutu or Hamilton based.

Mō mātou | About us

As a proudly indigenous tertiary educator, ‘tauira success’ is our mission and ‘whānau transformation through education’ is our vision, guiding our commitment to delivering quality education programmes underpinned by Māori culture and values.

Providing a positive, supportive, whānau-friendly workplace enables our kaimahi to help us realise our vision.  We also provide a range of benefits to support their wellbeing and that of their whānau:

• Free health and life insurance.
• Four extra leave days each year to celebrate Matariki and Christmas, plus special leave available for those involved in cultural or sporting events.
• Flexible work hours and work-from-home up to two days per week.
• Free car parking, and much more.

Mō tēnei mahi | About this job

This newly created position, supported by a team of subject matter experts, will be the key to delivering both our Te Reo Māori strategy and leadership framework for kaimahi.  Focused on the intersection of “leadership” and “culture”, our intention is to grow the cultural confidence, competence and capability of our leaders and their teams.  We’re already a leader in this area, but we also know there’s lots of opportunity to set the bar even higher. 

Through a kaupapa Māori lens, your overall imperative will be designing programmes of work that bring the Te Reo Māori strategy to life to provide kaimahi with the ability to apply te ao Māori cultural frameworks, tools and resources to workplace practices.  You’ll inspire and coordinate your specialist teams to deliver L&D programmes that improve kaimahi proficiency in Te Reo Māori, cultural frameworks and leadership principles and practices relating to the leadership framework of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa.  You’ll also draw on your analytical disposition to gather and analyse feedback, measure impact and inform continuous improvement of future programme design and provision.

Mōu | About you

Success in this role requires your proven experience as a learning and development leader who’s delivered significant cultural capability programmes.  You’ll also demonstrate:

• Prior experience building, leading and developing an engaged, highly skilled L&D team.
• Demonstrable success in strategic needs analysis, planning and execution.
• Strength and understanding in Māori cultural competency would be a real advantage, however we do have cultural capability within the team to support you in this.
• A willingness to participate in cultural activities and develop an understanding of Āhuatanga Māori (values, culture and tikanga).

• An open, collaborative style that shows not only in your leadership style, but in the lasting relationships you build and your ability to influence.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to gather and interpret data that measures success, highlights opportunities, and informs decision-making.
• A strong desire to champion diversity and culture initiatives, promote inclusivity and understanding.

Kua whati te tai, tono mai!! | Apply today!

If you’re excited about making a real impact on team culture and creating a positive, kaimahi-centric environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Applications will close as soon as we have a suitable shortlist, so apply today.

A position description is available on our careers website.  For any other queries, please email jobs@twoa.ac.nz