Senior Project Manager

Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Location: Wellington 

Business Group: Digital Services and Solutions

Branch: Digital Services

Salary: $136,502 - $169,869

An experienced Senior Property Project Manager is required to ensure these more demanding and technically complex property projects are delivered successfully. This role is also 2IC to the PCFWP Programme Delivery Manager.  

• Have you managed the successfully delivery of complex or critical projects? 
• Can you manage any organisational change necessary to achieve project goals and ensure this is understood by all stakeholders?  

If you thrive on cutting edge projects, want a genuine challenge, and knowing that what you do, you do for the good of New Zealand, the Department of Internal Affairs would very much like to hear from you.   

The delivery of projects sits within the Business Change Unit and is a Business Unit within Organisational Capability and Services.  Organisational Capability and Services is a branch dedicated to supporting the rest of the Department to succeed by providing corporate services that help business groups and people within DIA to make the best contribution to New Zealand  

Skills And Experience

• At least 5 years project management experience 
• Extensive experience at a senior level in a variety of project management and business transformation assignments in government 
• Experience in cross-agencies managed projects, property and/or business change projects  
• Ability to cope with a high degree of ambiguity, uncertainty and change, and balance multiple deliverables. 
• Highly effective stakeholder management skills and experience in managing cross-sector stakeholders. 
• Vendor management experience 
• PMP/PRINCE2 certified or equivalent 
• Extensive experience managing projects across the civil, electrical and mechanical workstreams 

Working at the Department of Internal Affairs, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of New Zealanders.  Come and discover genuine job satisfaction by helping us deliver even better services to New Zealand. 

What you'll get in return  
A good work life balance, flexible working arrangements, and the opportunity to work with a high performing and growing change team.  We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We recognise a diverse workforce contributes to better business outcomes. We are committed to creating a workplace where all employees have equal access. 

• Applications close: 5pm, 30 September 2025.
• For more information please contact: Julie.Osborne2@dia.govt.nz 
• Job description: To review the full job description, please click here.

At the Department of Internal Affairs, the work we do makes New Zealand a better place for those born here, and those new New Zealanders who have chosen to call this country home.