People and Culture
Palmerston North

The Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor University Services comprises a range of corporate services that support our people to achieve excellence in their various academic and professional endeavors for the University.

We have a vacancy for a Principal Advisor to join our team and provide strategic, organisational and operational advice and insights to assist our newly appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (DVC) University Services in decision making, quality assurance and risk management for the University Services (US) group.

Our service areas include:

• Strategy and the strategic programme management office
• Information technology services
• Finance and procurement
• National facilities
• People and culture
• Health, safety and wellbeing
• The university printery

Acting as a trusted advisor to the DVC US, the Principal Advisor will take a "one Massey" approach to issues management and to all work programmes; ensuring the Deputy Vice Chancellor University Services is well supported across all functional areas.

Your accountabilities will include the following:

• Strategic advice and support
• Issue and risk management developing, planning and reporting on the overall university services work programme
• Contributing to key university services programmes and initiatives
• Responses to OIA request and parliamentary questions
• Embedding Te Ao Māori in all that we do and demonstrating leadership in advancing our aspirations to be te Tiriti-led
• Coordinating university services emergency management and business continuity plans
• Stakeholder management

This new position is an opportunity for someone with a demonstrated track record of working across multiple stakeholders to deliver high quality work in complex and changing environments.

You will be a strategic thinker with strong influencing skills and a proven ability to work collaboratively across teams.

If you are looking for your next challenging opportunity in the Manawatu and are driven to make a positive contribution to support improved service delivery across the University, please reach out for more information or apply without delay.

We are deeply committed to increasing our cultural confidence and being a Te Tiriti-led university, demonstrating authentic leadership in contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand as we uphold Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and its principles through our practice. We embrace this not just as an obligation but as a real opportunity for the nation and its people.

Please feel free to contact DVC University Services, Shelley Turner, to arrange a confidential discussion about the position and what it entails: s.turner3@massey.ac.nz

Applications close on Sunday, 20 March 2022.

Note:All completed applications must please be submitted online rather than via email to the DVC University Services.

Massey University is committed to protecting the health, safety and well-being of our staff and students. All students, staff and visitors need to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, or medically exempt, in order to come onto our campuses or to take part in face-to-face University-managed activities from the 14th of February 2022. Therefore, any positions that fit this criteria will require the successful applicant to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 or have a New Zealand Ministry of Health issued medical exemption. Should you apply and be successful for any of our roles, evidence of your vaccination status will be requested if face-to-face University-managed activities or coming onto a Massey campus is a part of your employment.

Closing date: 20 March 2022.
Reference number: US_US_311_02/22

For further information and to apply online, visit: http://masseyunicareers.nga.net.nz