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TEMP ASSIGNMENT - SCIENCE AND STRATEGY DIRECTORATEHealthy Rivers: Plan for Change/Wai Ora: He Rautaki Whakapaipai is working with stakeholders to develop changes to the regional plan to help restore and protect the health of the Waikato and Waipa rivers, which are key to a vibrant regional economy. The plan change will help achieve reduction, over time, of sediment, bacteria and nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) entering water bodies (including groundwater) in the Waikato and Waipa River catchments. Waikato and Waipa River iwi and Waikato Regional Council are partners on this project, as set out in settlement and co-management legislation for the Waikato and Waipa rivers.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - PRESENT:• Liaise with the Technical Workstream Leader; Chair and Members of the Technical Leader's Group (TLG); Chair of the Collaborative Stakeholder Group (CSG); and the Project Manager. • Record and coordinate of all documentation commissioned by the TLG and contractors ensuring quality and robustness.• Attend TLG meetings; provide status update on reports; record feedback from the TLG Chair and members; action next steps until required outcome are achieved.• Ensure LGOIMA requests and other enquiries are recorded and responded to in a timely manner.• Liaise with the CSG Chair for approval to release reports to the CSG Portal and the public.MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:• Designed and implemented the TLG Document Register and document management process, which ensures all technical reports are tracked and progressed with a full and comprehensive audit capability, and are delivered in a timely manner. • Formalised a process for collating and recording all CSG documentation to ensure integrity, efficiency and ease of accessibility. CSG documentation is recorded with full and comprehensive audit capability via the CSG Document Dashboard. • Confident relationships with TLG Chair and members, and CSG Chair and Community Engagement team.

TEMP ASSIGNMENT - SCIENCE AND STRATEGY DIRECTORATESea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari, a ground-breaking initiative designed to secure a healthy, productive and sustainable future for the Hauraki Gulf/Tikapa Moana. The outcome of the project will be the first Hauraki Gulf Marine Spatial Plan which will ultimately inform how the Hauraki Gulf is shared, used and safeguarded for future generations. Project partners include mana whenua, Auckland Council, Waikato Regional Council (WRC), Department of Conservation, Ministry for Primary Industries and the Hauraki Gulf Forum.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (currently reduced to focus on Healthy Rivers project):• Build relationships across multiple reporting lines - Project Manager and Project Business Owner at Auckland Council; Project Business Owner and other internal staff at Waikato Regional Council; and project Leads.• Contacts – compile and monitor contracts ensuring timely renewals of contracts, insurance and health & safety documentation. Monitor performance standards, milestones and budgets.• Budgets – monitor and track the project budget, coordinating actual costs between Auckland Council and Waikato Regional Council, reconciliations, incoming milestone funding, stakeholder expenses/reimbursements, purchasing register, forecasting. Flag any concerns.• Processes – establish end-to-end processes, document control procedures, set up and maintain project plans, registers, records and logs (i.e. management strategies for risk, quality, document configuration, communication, project plan, risk register, item records, issues register, quality register, team plans and lessons log).MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:• Budget tracking to facilitate monthly and YTD budgeting and forecasting.• Exemplary record keeping and document management systems which has allowed both Auckland Council and Waikato Regional Council easy access to documentation, reducing the need for duplication. (Accellion and OneDrive have been used to facilitate this).

TEMP ASSIGNMENT - SCIENCE AND STRATEGY DIRECTORATEHealthy Rivers: Plan for Change/Wai Ora: He Rautaki Whakapaipai is working with stakeholders to develop changes to the regional plan to help restore and protect the health of the Waikato and Waipa rivers, which are key to a vibrant regional economy. The plan change will help achieve reduction, over time, of sediment, bacteria and nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) entering water bodies (including groundwater) in the Waikato and Waipa River catchments. Waikato and Waipa River iwi and Waikato Regional Council are partners on this project, as set out in settlement and co-management legislation for the Waikato and Waipa rivers.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - PAST:In liaison with Workstream Leaders and the Project Manager and document information that will enable the tracking of the project’s progress to achieve results by:- Identify activities, current and future across multiple worksteams- Identify tasks within activities- Clarify sequence and identify dependencies- Estimate start-up, duration and completion of tasks and activities- Define expertise / resources

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (April 2015 – June 2015):In liaison with Workstream Leaders and the Project Manager, document information to enable the tracking of the project’s progress to achieve results by:• Identifying activities, current and future across multiple worksteams• Identifying tasks within activities• Clarifying sequence and identifying dependencies• Estimating start-up, duration and completion of tasks and activities• Defining expertise / resources

ACC is the only organisation of its kind in the world - an innovative New Zealand organisation, born out of an idea focused on looking after the best interests of our people. There are three words that encapsulate ACC's reason for being: prevention, care and recovery. ACC exists to actively minimise the chance of accidents happening. But when they do, they are there to help people with the appropriate levels of care and recovery with the aim of returning them to their normal lives faster. ACC Case Managers provide a needs based service to people with high risk and serious injury, in order to achieve the best possible outcome and durable independence.A Case Manager is responsible for providing effective rehabilitation to enable the individual to take responsibility for their life and future through informed and participative decision making and goal setting.A critical component of the role of an ACC Case Manager is the development of case management plans that provide a predictive, planned and facilitated process to co-ordinate and direct the services needed to achieve durable independence. A Case Manager must also assess and monitor individual clients to ensure that the desired outcomes are achieved.An integral part of this role is developing positive relationships with clients, employers and service providers.ACCOUNTABILITIES:Assessment and facilitation; linguistic competencies; case management planning; review; cost management; research and special projects; professional advice; health liaison.COMPETENCIES:Customer focus - building effective customer relationshipsTeamwork - contribute to a positive and supportive team environmentMotivation to achieve - setting challenging objectives and overcoming obstacles

Waikato Regional Council works with others to build a Waikato that has a healthy environment, a strong economy and vibrant communities. The Resource Use Directorate includes disciplines such as Industry and Infrastructure (land and soil, waste water, dams, water allocation, coastal inland waters and minerals and energy); Proactive Monitoring; Maritime Services; Investigations and Incident Response; and Enviroschools Programme.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:• Advise on the best form of contractor engagement with a focus on achieving key project objectives and outcomes, whilst meeting customer expectations.• Compile and monitor contracts with specific focus on risk, performance standards, milestones and budgets.• Focus on ensure compliance with Council policies, procedures and guidelines as they relate to contract management, contractor health and safety and procurement.• Initiate improvements to documentation, processes and procedures.• Train staff to navigate the Contract Management Database, and project manage their contracts.• Review and update Contract Management User Guide.• Author of internal documentation to assist staff with contract awareness and efficiencies.• Relationships – insurance brokers, auditors, consultants contractors and suppliers; WRC Iegal services, procurement, finance, Resource Use Team, Management.• Member of the Legal Services Contracts Working Group.MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:• Lead role in the the initiation and development of an in-house Contract Management Database.• Author of Contract Management Database User Guide.• Initiated improvements to ‘Directorate’ specific contracts ensuring these met all legal, procurement and health and safety requirements. • Delivery of a presentation of the Contract Management Database to the Waikato DHB Business Improvement team.KEY COMPETENCIES:Attention to detail; Communication; Decisiveness; Initiative; Planning; Questioning; Rationality.

Short term role due to restructure.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:• Organise and coordinate office operations and procedures in order to ensure effectiveness of the School of Health.• Assign and monitor clerical, administrative and secretarial responsibilities and tasks among office staff ensuring maximum efficiency.• Evaluate and manage staff performance; recruit and select office staff; organize orientation and training of new staff members; coach, mentor and discipline office staff. Manage internal staff relations.• Design and implement office policies and procedures and ensure these are adhered to, monitored and updated (ensuring operational efficiency).• Co-ordinate schedules, appointments, bookings, travel, and other tasks for and on behalf of the Head of School.• Attend, participate in and take minutes of meetings.• Prepare reports • Monitor and review reports.• Oversee and monitor contracts. • Maintain office supplies inventory; review and approve office supply acquisitions; manage petty cash.• Handle customer inquiries and complaints.• Maintain a safe and secure working environment.

WelTec is one of New Zealands leading providers of applied vocational education and training, with a passion for the future based on solid foundations. WelTec has had an important place within the wider Wellington region for over 100 years and offers a comprehensive range of education to over 9,000 students each year. Teaching is enhanced by strong industry relationships, working closely with employers so that both WelTec and employers are confident that graduates have the skills they need to succeed in the workplace. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:• Act as Centre coordinator with Marketing, IT Services, Facilities, Registry, Finance and HR.• Coordinate and implement WelTec branding across the Centre, liaising with and advising Programme Managers and Directors.• Coordinate Professional Performance Review Processes, Professional Development, Annual Leave and HR correspondence, including staff engagement processes and inductions.• Assist Head of Centre and Deputy Chief Executive in day-to-day operational aspects, ensuring deadlines are met and issues are brought to the attention of the appropriate people in a timely manner.• Communicate new policies and policy changes to the Head of Centre, Programme Managers and Directors, assisting in the implementation thereof. • Attend, contribute and minute weekly Management Team Brief Meetings. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:• Management of a new initiative - the Cadetship Scheme (in conjunction with the HOC), which involved student and business liaison and relationship building; database management; compilation and distribution of all Cadetship correspondence; liaison with Marketing re published and web material relative to the scheme; set up and manage Cadetship events and information evenings.

Young Enterprise Trust (Enterprise New Zealand Trust) provides a range of enterprise and financial literacy resources to schools throughout New Zealand, helping develop enterprising, confident young New Zealanders.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:• Actively promote the wider interest of the Trust both nationally and regionally, particularly in regard to sponsorship and relationships of the Trust’s programmes.• Assist in event organisation and co-ordination.• Assist newsletter editor with compilation of the newsletter, coordinating material, proof reading, redrafting and final copy, liaising with publisher and overseeing final publication of the newsletter.• Compilation, editing and formatting of all company documents – minutes of meetings, letters, reports and brochures.• All travel and accommodation arrangements for CEO and Business Development Director.• Office management. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:• Establishment office procedures and best practices.• Development and maintenance of databases relevant to the different Trust programmes.

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms in its industry, working with governments, businesses, architects and planners and providing integrated solutions across many disciplines. The firm provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. Its expertise ranges from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transport networks, and from developing the energy sources of the future to enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. Its employees include engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals, based in more than 500 offices, across 39 countries, on 5 continents.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:• Client support - detailed understanding of the organisations that WSP dealt with, establishing a network of links with key contacts within these organisations.• Compilation and delivery of induction programmes for new starters (with particular emphasis on Group awareness), as well as undertaking training for new starters relating to some areas of their responsibilities.• Management of appraisal procedures, timesheets and overtime reports, and training records.• Liaison with all Profit Centre Managers re monthly Board reporting, collating all Board documents, communicating Board meeting information, draft Board report.• Monitored, prioritised and actioned where appropriate, all communication to Board Director ensuring that deadlines were met. • Extensive diary management, organisation of overseas travel and accommodation. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:• Developed a network of internal WSP support contacts and awareness/application procedures that supported the strategic direction of the Group.• Assisted in managing and progressing payment from one of WSP’s largest clients, liaising with Project Managers and Directors.

With 40 years of experience in the fragrance, toiletries and personal care markets, Hampshire Cosmetics has accumulated an extensive portfolio to offer clients. The move from Contract Filler to Full Service Provider over a number of years, has seen the company build on this heritage to enhance its offering and enable clients to take advantage of Hampshire Cosmetics’ philosophy “Full Service… Full Stop”.The company’s integrated capability allows it to support clients in a wide range of manufacturing, liquid filling and packaging formats. The in-house creative team has extensive resources and experienced staff to support customer specific or blue-sky product creations encompassing skin and hair care, fragrance, men’s toiletries and bath products.At all levels the company pursues a program of continuous improvement and believes strongly in enhancing via training, the value of its staff to the business. Hampshire Cosmetics is highly cost conscious and seeks to deliver quality and value both internally and externally. The company is committed to continuing to refine and develop its offering to clients, and with its range of accreditations and strong commitment to Environmental, Ethical and Quality values, Hampshire Cosmetics offers a full service facility encompassing all these elements throughout the life cycle of product development and delivery.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:• Attend client and supplier meetings on the basis of ensuring product portfolio met market demands.• Comunicate client requirements to internal departments – production, packaging, design, and procurement.• Ensure that project briefs were adequately detailed and communicated to all departments to achieve effective implementation of product development.• Sourced new business through the development and growth of existing client product ranges.MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:Implemented, managed and maintained a comprehensive and intuitive progress reporting system.

Hospitals in the NHS are managed by trusts/acute hospital trusts and are run by a trust board. There are over 260 hospital, mental health, community and ambulance trusts and 211 clinical commissioning groups or CCGs in the NHS. Hospital trusts, community providers and mental health trusts are dependent on CCGs commissioning services for them, such as elective surgery, outpatient visits and other treatments. Commissioning Support Units offer CCGs support services, such as HR and finance. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:• Ensured key project plans were met, co-ordinating and facilitating the implementation of regulation output specs and hospital equipment.• Facilitated and implemented agreed activity plans for the identified specialities to be delivered on site, working with partners in Finance, Service leads, PCT leads and Clinicians, ensuring that the results were achievable, affordable and sustainable.• Assisted in the development and implementation of agreed operational policies and output specs for the identified services that linked to the activity plans and strategic direction identified by the Project Sponsor(s). (Carried out in partnership with Secondary Care Clinicians, PCT’s Nursing and Therapy staff).• Project managed User Groups and Service Areas on accommodation schedules, design and room data sheets with private sector bidders and construction partners.• Managed NHS/bidder interface and relationships at working level.• Administration of key sections and project documentation, working as directed with managers and advisors.MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:As part of the Support Services Partnership, working in conjunction with the NHS, I successfully developed and sustained high quality, cost effective, informed and timely advice to participating members to ensure that all investment decisions requiring approval were sound. Subsequent project management systems were then put in place to ensure effective delivery within agreed costings and time scales.

Pharma-Q is one of South Africa's leading contract-manufacturing businesses with over 14 years experience in pharmaceutical contract manufacturing, we service a large base of the country's most reputable and established pharmaceutical companies. We pride ourselves on providing our clientele with quality medicines backed by our people's expertise and unwavering commitment to ensure that the medicines we manufacture are indeed safe and reliable.Pharma-Q believes that energy, honesty, commitment to delivery and passion are the qualities needed to set the company apart from its competitors. (Formerly known as Cosi Pharmaceuticals SA).KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:I started my career at COSi Group as Executive Assistant to the CEO. Thereafter I became Office Manager for COSi South Africa and was then promoted to Customer Services Lead for COSi Pharmaceuticals.• Full responsibility for the order book (and forecasting). • Project managed (per product, per client) individual items from new business development stage, through purchasing, quality assurance, production, warehousing, and invoicing. This was managed by implementation of a progress report for each client, which was then communicated to all relevant departments.• Ensured customer awareness of product/production processes and new developments at all times, and communicated solid solutions where necessary.• Planned, monitored and motivated for deadlines to be met.• Coordinated and held client meetings as well as departmental meetings, which enabled the above to be actioned and communicated.MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:• Reinstatement of business, strengthened current business and increased overall sales and future prospects. Dramatically improved client relationships and loyalty.• Developed and maintained an exemplary customer services attitude and environment in all departments. Achieved increase in customer service levels from 40% to 90% and even 100% in some cases.