Manager Portfolio & Programme

We're looking for a strategic and people-focused leader to join our collaborative ICT Leadership Team. This permanent full-time role is based in our central Wellington office.

About the role

The Manager Portfolio and Programme leads Greater Wellington's ICT portfolio and programme delivery function, ensuring investment and delivery activity aligns with organisational priorities and strategic outcomes. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this role leads the Portfolio and Programme team and plays a key role in connecting strategy, governance, planning, and delivery across ICT.

You'll oversee the delivery of ICT programmes and initiatives across a diverse technology environment, ensuring work is prioritised, governed effectively, and delivered to agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards. The role is responsible for portfolio governance, delivery reporting, resource planning, stakeholder engagement, and the ongoing development of modern delivery practices, including Greater Wellington's implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

As a member of the ICT Leadership Team, you'll lead and develop a team of specialists while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement. You'll work closely with senior leaders, business units, vendors, and sector partners to support informed decision-making around investment, sequencing, delivery risk, and organisational priorities.

This role also contributes to ICT strategic planning, annual and long-term planning processes, portfolio reporting, and identifying opportunities to improve service delivery and organisational capability through technology and modern ways of working.

Skills and experience required

We're looking for someone with strong leadership capability, strategic thinking, and proven experience delivering complex ICT portfolios and programmes in a large organisation.

You'll ideally bring:

• Significant experience leading ICT portfolio and programme delivery functions
• Proven experience managing large-scale ICT initiatives in complex environments
• Strong people leadership skills with experience developing high-performing teams
• Experience with agile delivery approaches and portfolio governance practices
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong financial, risk, and resource management capability
• A tertiary qualification in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• An understanding of te ao Māori and commitment to supporting outcomes for Māori in line with Greater Wellington's values and frameworks

You'll also bring the ability to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery, navigate ambiguity, and build strong collaborative relationships across the organisation and with external partners.

What we offer

• Work to suit your life and whānau with our flexible working policy.
• We'll encourage you to grow and prosper with a range of learning and development opportunities, internal secondments and career progression.
• Your wellbeing is our priority - we'll provide medical and trauma insurance support through our employee assistance programme, including Rongoā Māori partner providers, generous annual and sick leave, along with Tangihanga leave and support.
• We want you to have a sense of belonging, where you can reflect your personal and cultural identity in the way that you work.
• Social clubs, staff networks and a friendly and inclusive culture.
• Great working environments across our beautiful region.

Come help treasure and grow our rohe together

Our rohe and its lands, waterways, animals, plants and people can only grow stronger if they are nurtured.

To join our team is to step up and commit to playing an active part in this important mahi. That means restoring nature, connecting people and places, reducing environmental impacts and helping this rohe and its people prosper.

We are part of a collective movement alongside mana whenua and community members whose hopes for the future of this region are just as high as your own.

Our efforts across environmental management, public transport, flood protection, regional parks and water supply are interconnected and integral to treasuring our rohe and growing our future.

How to apply

Greater Wellington is proud to be a member of Te Uru Tāngata Centre for Workplace Inclusion. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and welcome the unique talent and experience you will bring to our team.

We are passionate about ensuring our recruitment processes are fair and equitable. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs or adjustments that need to be made so we can offer a recruitment process that is more accessible to you.

Click on the Apply link to view the position description and to apply for the role with a cover letter and CV. All applicants will be required to provide proof of their eligibility to work in New Zealand as we are unable to provide sponsorship for this position.

For further information, please contact Ross Lynch, 021 025 25055.

Applications close: 5.00pm, Thursday, 7 June 2026 . However, we will be shortlisting applications as they come in and will interview as soon as possible to secure the right person.

Greater Wellington is an accredited Living Wage Employer. We're committed to making sure our people, including people in our supply chain, earn enough to meet life's basic needs, support their whānau, and participate fully in their communities.

The remuneration for this position, inclusive of all benefits, is $145,616 to $218,424, with a midpoint of $182,020. Starting remuneration will depend on the skills and experience of the successful applicant.

Agency applications won't be considered at this time.