Senior Project Manager - Applications focus

Salary: $$ dependent on your expertise

Working across multiple workstreams, you will provide strong delivery leadership while also contributing to how work is shaped, planned, and sequenced across the wider programme of activity.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead end-to-end delivery across a mix of legacy and modern technology platforms
• Manage initiatives driven by ministerial priorities, regulatory change, and service improvements
• Contribute to forward planning, including shaping delivery approaches, sequencing work, and identifying dependencies
• Support alignment of solutions with broader platform and organisational direction
• Provide oversight across planning, financials, risks, issues, and governance
• Coordinate across multiple teams and workstreams to maintain alignment and delivery momentum
• Engage confidently with senior stakeholders, governance forums, and delivery partners
• Navigate competing priorities and interdependencies across systems, teams, and vendors

You bring a proven track record delivering large-scale technology initiatives and are comfortable working across multiple workstreams with competing priorities, established governance, and a high degree of stakeholder engagement.

You are equally confident leading delivery as you are contributing to forward planning, helping shape how work is sequenced, aligned, and delivered across a broader programme of activity.

You will also bring:

• Strong experience leading complex IT initiatives across both legacy systems and modern platforms
• A track record of delivering in large, multi-workstream environments, ideally within the public sector or similarly structured organisations
• Proven ability to lead delivery, drive outcomes, and maintain momentum in complex or ambiguous situations
• Experience contributing to forward planning, including shaping delivery approaches, sequencing work, and managing dependencies across initiatives
• Ability to align delivery with broader platform and organisational direction
• Solid capability across core project disciplines, including planning, financials, risk and issue management, reporting, and governance
• Experience working within structured governance frameworks and engaging effectively with senior stakeholders
• Confidence working across complex technology landscapes, including integration, cloud, and platforms such as Salesforce
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills, including working with third-party delivery partners

For more info apply online or drop Nathan a note - nathan.masters@taska.co.nz