1.
Whakawhanaungatanga – Motivation What motivated you to apply for the role and what
are the 2 – 3 key strengths you would bring to this role?
Conversely, what parts of this role provide a challenge or development opportunity for you?
2.
Transformational Change We are currently working on transformational change across the
organisation. Our challenge now is delivering those outcomes throughout the organisation
and delivering to current government priorities.
Given this context describe to us an experience where you have supported transformational
change and what were your short-, medium- and long-term goals.
3.
Organisational Capability Build This role has accountability and holds the overview for
Tangata Ora, the Organisation’s People Strategy. Linked to the strategic pou ‘Our People’ are
clear commitments to lifting our people manager capability and embedding a capability
framework to lift individual and organisational capability across the Organisation.
Please talk us through your experience in either or both areas and take us through a specific
example that demonstrates your success in leading capability uplift. Consider within your
response:
• Measures you took to identify and assess current capability
• Key stakeholders, partners and/or networks that you included in the mahi or leveraged
expertise from
• System monitoring and/or quality assurance processes you embedded to measure
effectiveness
• Complexities and/or challenges you faced, and how you navigated through these.
4.
People Leadership As a people leader, how have you created engagement and a positive,
inclusive culture in your team? How do you go about getting the best out of your people to
deliver results?
(All within the backdrop of the current political context and with a workforce that have been
under pressure for some time
5.
Te Ao Māori applied perspectives As a kaupapa Māori organisational priority is that we
accurately reflect Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Te Ao Māori into our everyday work through
capability and capacity building.
Please talk us through what this means for you and your most significant achievement in
applying these within a people and capability context.
6.
Organisational Change Experience and Leadership
Given the context that has been shared throughout this interview tell us about a time you
led a large-scale change programme that affected an entire organisation or multiple
organisations, operating across multiple sites, within a central government context.
Perferrably where the change involved high stakeholder complexity, including unions and
workforce risk, and had the potential to attract public or media scrutiny.
How did you design and lead the change, manage risk and relationships, and ensure diverse
voices and perspectives meaningfully shaped the final decisions
