Shane Collins Email & Phone Number

Christchurch, Nz

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Canterbury & West Coast, New Zealand

As a Senior Relationship Manager I work across the Greater Christchurch Group, providing advice and guidance in relation to Christchurch recovery and regeneration initiatives in addition to planning, legal and monitoring matters. I manage senior level relationships at a regional and national level, fostering strong partnerships across a range of regeneration projects, and facilitating effective solutions for urgent, ongoing, and long-term recovery issues.To date I have helped develop and strengthen strategic partnerships in relation to the build of the new Canterbury multi-use Arena, the Metro Sports Facility, and the rebuild of the Christchurch Cathedral. Working at senior levels of organisations I have fostered collaboration by promoting cooperative goals and building trust across the group. The key stakeholders that I work with extend to both national and international agencies and bodies at a senior level.

Canterbury & West Coast, New Zealand

As CEO for the Canterbury Rugby League I provided leadership and direction to the organisation across all facets of the game. I embedded a philosophy of excellence in the delivery of customer service, ensuring a high quality experience for our members at all times, and was instrumental in strengthening relationships with both funders and sponsors to identify and implement new and innovative ways to deliver and fund the game. One of my key focuses in this role was developing the business, expanding revenue channels, and driving a focus on long-term, commercial partnerships to support continued sustainability and growth. I introduced sponsorship events with partners including HireKing and Brannigans. This included hosting the only sponsors event held by a regional sporting organisation during the Rugby World Cup where we hosted the Scotland Rugby League team. Active in coaching and mentoring the team to be able to deliver to and support the clubs with appropriate resources to enable them to function well, I embedded a client-centric focus. A key part of this was developing a robust administration system to drive better relationships with Clubs and stakeholders, expanding commercial sponsorship and supporting the financial framework.

Christchurch, New Zealand

In this role I led a major change initiative to transfer a significant programme of work from the CERA to the Department Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC). This highly influential role required the navigation of complex relationships across multiple agencies across the public sector ensuring that a range of stakeholder needs were both managed and met. During my time here I was responsible for ensuring the successful transition of the programme by coaching and mentoring the wider team and project leads, creating new partnerships and alliances across organisations and enhancing the communication channels for all parties involved. By embedding a culture where communication was the focus I significantly reduced the need for issues to be escalated, allowing them to be resolved early on by front line staff. Increased communication also improved traction during the consultation process and reduced needless delays. I initiated regularly scheduled meetings with officials to achieve agreement within early consultation phases through the creation of strong relationships across agencies and within the organisation. Overseeing the transition I have championed a whole of government approach to the transfer of functions from CERA to DPMC with a focus on risk reduction that allows the achievement of challenging goals and targets to benefit both the community and wider New Zealand.

Christchruch

As the Transition Manager with the Earthquake Commission I was responsible for coordinating the operational wind down from the EQC’s response to the Canterbury earthquakes. This included the coordination and monitoring of a suite of projects across the business. To ensure our goals and targets were achieved I successfully developed an organisation wide reporting framework, presenting this to the EQC Board and executive to ensure a seamless process for managing the demobilisation. This core role required the scoping, development and delivery of projects to achieve the goals of the EQC’s Canterbury response. To achieve these targets I developed and implemented a milestones and dependencies framework to ensure visibility on progress to the EQC executive and Board, allowing robust decision making at executive level to take place.

Wellington

In my role as the Private Secretary to the Minister of the Earthquake Commission my main focus was on elevating the collaboration and communication of key stakeholders across the organisation and central government. To achieve this I built effective relationships at a national level to respond to emerging issues, communicating these to both Crown and EQC.By developing extensive networks amongst key agencies, businesses, central and local government I was able to quickly establish trust, rapport and gain buy in. As a trusted advisor I provided specialist advice and support to the Minister and CEO of the Earthquake Commission on issues and priorities relating to EQC and sider Canterbury Economic Recovery issues.

Christchurch

As Manager of Investigation I established and grew the investigations team from only 2 to over 30 staff, instilling a client-focused culture that re-enforced fairness and the allocation of correct entitlements. A core part of this role was championing organisation wide change in the approach to dealing with fraud and compliance. This included leading the development of a new strategy to address fraudulent claims that successfully resulted in the recovery of financial losses of over $14.5m. To achieve this I developed all the business processes, plans and KPI’s for the Claim Review Team, led a proactive and structured approach amongst community groups, developed key relationships with stakeholders across private and public sector and successfully reduced opportunities for fraud and financial leakage.

Durham, United Kingdom

This role provided the opportunity to significantly impact the sporting community at both local and national level in the UK, delivering joint research initiatives with government, community groups and Durham University that resulted in increased sport participation amongst the wider public. I provided consulting services to the IOC, Sport for All Commission on the status and vision of Sport for All and was identified as a subject expert in the role of government and national sporting organisations in developing increased sport participation.In 2011 I was invited as a keynote speaker at the Shanghai Sport for All Conference. I have also written and contributed to multiple publications, articles and book chapters within the sporting field.

As a Researcher both on my own PhD and providing consulting services to a range of sporting organisations within the UK, Brazil, India and Zambia, I helped support an international initiative that resulted in a review of a range of sport programmes being used to educate youth about HIV/AIDS.

Dunedin, Wellington And Auckland

Holding multiple senior management roles with the police including Business Development Manager, Manager Staff Safety Training and National Change Advisor I played an integral role in shaping the strategic direction and priorities of the New Zealand Police. A key member of the NZ Police Executive Board from 1996 to 1998 I contributed to robust governance across the organisation to achieve long-term strategic goals and targets.Key achievements during my time here include:• Led the project team responsible for developing and implementing business process improvement of the Police Communication Centres• Oversaw the seamless introduction of IT upgrades across three national communication centres• Developed the national and operational strategy for the Police Communications Centre• Delivered a national self-defence training programme for all sworn staff across the whole of New Zealand • Developed and introduced national use of force framework for all sworn staff to adopt in the fieldA collaborative leader I embedded a positive and motivated culture for the teams I led, modelling international best practice within the New Zealand policing environment.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Public Policy Analysis

Post Graduate Diploma In Public Policy

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Diploma Parks & Recreation Management

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Hr And Industrial Relations