Executive Director, People, Capability & Wellbeing
Mō Tēnei Tūranga Mahi | About the Role
We are seeking a strategic and values-driven leader to join Wintec as our Executive Director – People, Capability and Wellbeing. This critical role provides oversight of the People, Capability and Wellbeing directorate, ensuring that our people strategies, systems and services enable an inclusive, high-performing, and future-ready organisation.
As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, you will contribute to shaping Wintec’s direction and culture, ensuring our kaimahi and leaders are well supported to thrive. You will bring strategic thought leadership, foster innovation, and champion equity and wellbeing, enabling our people to succeed and our communities to flourish.
The appointing salary for this role will be between $200,000 to 230,000 dependent on skills and experience.
Key accountabilities include:
- Providing strategic leadership of the People, Capability and Wellbeing directorate across People and Culture, Organisational Development and Equity, and Wellbeing and Safety.
- Driving people strategies that strengthen equity, inclusion, wellbeing and workforce capability across the organisation.
- Partnering with leaders and unions to build constructive relationships, resolve issues, and enable high performance.
- Ensuring operational excellence and compliance in employment relations, safety, and risk management.
- Contributing to Wintec’s executive leadership, influencing organisational strategy and decision-making.
He kōrero mōu| About you
You will be an experienced and collaborative senior leader who is passionate about building a people-first culture. You will bring both strategic capability and operational expertise, with the ability to navigate complexity and lead through change.
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:
- Extensive senior leadership experience in people, capability and wellbeing functions within a complex organisation.
- Strong strategic and change leadership capability, with proven success in influencing outcomes at executive and governance levels.
- An understanding of equity, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and cultural competency, with demonstrated ability to embed these in workplace practice.
- A values-led leadership style with exceptional relationship-building and communication skills, and an ability to work constructively with kaimahi, unions, external agencies and executive peers.
- Relevant postgraduate qualifications in HR or a related discipline (or equivalent expertise through significant leadership experience).
As an inclusive and supportive employer, we value diversity and want to encourage anyone interested to apply, regardless of whether you tick all the boxes or not. We know that people from underrepresented groups and women in particular don't apply for roles if they're not a 100% match, but we're not looking for perfection, we're looking for potential.
We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of life, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your Cover Letter.
For more information please view the Position Description below.
Mō Mātou | About us
Wintec is a business division of Te Pūkenga, a vibrant and progressive tertiary institute with campus locations in Hamilton.
Wintec is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and delivering services in a manner that responds to the needs of Māori learners and their whānau, as well as the aspirations of iwi and Māori communities throughout our region (including Māori employers). To deliver effectively on this commitment, we recognise the need for a culturally competent and confident workforce vertically and horizontally across our organisation.
Me pēhea te tono | How to apply
As a responsible employer and education provider, Wintec is committed to the protection of children and vulnerable persons and applies relevant policy and practice to meet this commitment. Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa and will be required to undergo pre-employment checks; Successful candidates will be required to undergo relevant vetting and employment checks.
We will be assessing applications as they come in and this role will be closed earlier if we receive a suitable candidate. Applications close on 24 October 2025.
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