• Permanent and full-time opportunity
• New and innovative role
• Selwyn is New Zealand's fastest growing district
• Manage a large number of relationships and their interactions with Council.

About the role:

The Strategic Relationships Manager is a new and innovative role at Selwyn District Council with a focus on managing key stakeholders' development journey through Council. As the Strategic Relationships Manager, you will enable our strategic partners to unlock their economic and social potential to improve amenity, employment, and economic outcomes for Selwyn. Reporting to the Executive Director Development and Growth you'll be the key contact into the Council for our partners, focusing on improving and maintaining relationships. You'll have the ability to smooth the way for complex applications, and to ensure an aligned approach across Council.

Key responsibilities:

• Build, manage, and improve key relationships.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration and development.
• Be the point of contact to effectively deal with any issues if they arise.
• Be over any customer's involvement in the building and resource consent processes (probably expand this to all Council service)
• Provide feedback and implement business improvements to assist in improving service delivery.

About you:

You'll demonstrate the ability to successfully lead organisational and culture change initiatives in a complex environment. You'll be a confident communicator with the ability to influence at all levels, both internally and externally. Experience in relationship management is pivotal to success in this role.

You will also have:

• The ability to quickly build a great rapport with people.
• A good grounding in Resource Consent and Building Consent process.
• Able to look for solutions in technically difficult situations.
• Manage a large number of relationships and their interactions with Council.
• To ensure collaboration across the council to achieve alignment of approach.

What we can offer:

• Great work-life balance with flexibility
• Career coaching and development
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing and volunteer leave
• Three days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• Two weeks paid Partners Leave
• Sick leave from day one
• Continued KiwiSaver contributions during savings suspension
• Discounts with local and national businesses

About us:

Selwyn is New Zealand's fastest growing district. We have a fantastic quality of life, great communities, and a thriving economy. Our Council works actively with residents to provide the services and facilities that help our communities to thrive and grow.

Our head office is based in Rolleston (only 25km from Christchurch), which offers an enviable family lifestyle, outstanding local facilities and an easy drive to the ski fields, rivers and hills that make up Canterbury's stunning landscape.

Our values are important to us and represent the way we work: · Be a good human · Be brave - Think differently · Better together- Make it happen for Selwyn.

We honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and we are committed to working with our Treaty partner to deliver on our obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

If you'd like to play a part in making Selwyn the best place to live, work and play, join us today!