Provides thought leadership, planning and delivery in terms of property and facilities management which delivers value and supports LINZ in being a high performing organisation.

Manager, Administration and Business Support - Responsible for facilities management at the national office and administration management for Corporate Services Branch at the Ministry for Primary Industries.Key Acheivements:• All staff actively attended on the job, internal and external training opportunities annually. Managed under-performance resulting in meeting sufficient improvement or exiting the organisation.• Actively participated in emergency management planning across MPI Head Office for disaster recovery from impacts of emergencies (natural and security) exercising the Co-ordinated Incident Management System (CIMS) generic framework.• Initiated improving emergency procedures for MPI head office, including designing and implementing protocols. Initiatives included creating a sub-group to work on improvements for evacuating staff from the building through better use of floor wardens, floor wardens becoming more engaged through regular interactions and recognition.• Successfully project managed the MPI head office post alignment accommodation changes for approximately 800 + people moves. Included co-ordinating moving logistics, building work, sequencing of each move and intricately managing the budget. Staffs were fully informed, appropriate resources in place, delivered on time, minimal remedial work required and within budget. • Effectively arranged building logistics for Ministry run responses with no fuss and always with staff comfort needs at the forefront of mind.

My responsibilities included:• Monitoring, reviewing, and advising on the efficiency and effectiveness of existing business processes and support systems.• Provided advice, developed and documented business delivery rules and guidelines associated with performance indicators.• Managed programmes of work implementing agreed system improvement strategies.Key Achievements:• Represented the Policy Branch and Sustainable Programmes on tender panels evaluating and establishing agreements for: panel services for Project Management Services, Uniforms, and Vehicle fleet with Contracts established.• Reviewed the process and suppliers for Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment. Established a new system and operational instruction ensuring common standards and preferred suppliers are maintained across the Directorate.• Researched and implemented overnight secure garaging to reduce staff storing vehicles at home, consolidated vehicle fleet information, and created a monthly management report for vehicles. • Evaluated the process for production and management of Sustainable Programmes Publications. Designed improvements and implemented efficient and cost effective systems suitable for regional viewing and centralised logistics.

Areas of Responsibility:• Promoted and supported BSB’s business objectives and strategic priorities.• Provided input into the preparation of the Ministry’s accountability documents.• Identified and maintained relationships with Business Units.Key Achievements:• Successfully project managed, in the timeframes required, ISO 9001 Accreditation for three Business Units of the Branch. This project aligned to the Ministry’s Ease of doing business strategic priority.• Large contributor to developing and reporting of the Branch Business Plan, Output Plan, Annual Report, Select Committee questions. Timeframes and individual requirements were always successfully met for each specific request.• Facilitated leadership initiatives involving multiple workshops with 40 - 200+ staff in the Branch. I delivered this project on time, within budget and effectively managed the relationships and needs of external clients and staff.

Key Achievements:• Proactively managed a portfolio of approximately 15 ITOs by managing risks within the ITOs sector and producing qualitative information for the team and internal reporting requirements.• Regularly drafted detailed correspondence for different audiences (government sector/general public and internal to the organisation) seeking significant investment decisions aligning with the Tertiary Education Strategy having a high political focus or Ministerial Correspondence consistently meeting the timeframes allocated.• Provided coaching and mentoring to Advisors, as a subject matter expert in industry training qualification approvals, building their capability and following best business practice. • Designed, implemented, and monitored databases on various internal systems significantly improving completion of timelines and capturing internal business processes.• Facilitated and assisted rewriting industry training operational policies, requiring interaction with key internal senior staff and full accuracy when interpreting the Act. • Significantly reduced a large volume of industry training qualification approval applications to a manageable level for the team.Modern Apprenticeships Programme (Programme)• Successfully assisted rewriting the operational policy, advising internally and externally of the policy’s objectives as a subject matter expert.• Facilitated development of change in the funding system, within a tight deadline driven by the new financial year. • Successfully assisted rewriting business processes, systems and guidelines for the Programme supporting investment decisions for Modern Apprenticeship Co-ordinators.• Developed a new fund tracking process for the Programme to assist with the new Service Centre function of the TEC who picked up responsibility of this piece of work.