• Build project management maturity across the organisation.
• Deliver training, coaching, and workshops for project leaders.
• Drive continuous improvement with fit-for-purpose frameworks.

About the role:

Our Performance Delivery Team plays a central role in ensuring Selwyn District Council delivers effectively, transparently, and with accountability to our community.

As Project Enabling Lead, you'll help lift our project management capability and maturity. This role is all about enabling — creating the right frameworks, processes, and support so our people can deliver successful projects with confidence and consistency.

You'll lead the development and embedding of project management tools, training, and coaching, while also supporting governance groups with good practice guidance. By facilitating post-project reviews and tracking maturity improvements, you'll ensure lessons learned are applied and project delivery keeps getting better. This is a role for someone who enjoys building capability, influencing outcomes, and taking people on the journey.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing and embedding good practice project management frameworks, tools, and processes.
• Delivering training, coaching, and guidance to project managers and governance groups.
• Facilitating workshops, including post-project reviews, and embedding lessons learned.
• Leading maturity assessments to track and improve project management capability across Council.

About you:

You'll be a flexible, pragmatic professional who knows that people and relationships are as important as process. You'll bring:

• At least 8 years' experience improving project management maturity, ideally in the public sector.
• Recognised project management qualifications (PRINCE2, PMP, or similar).
• Strong knowledge of different project management methodologies and their application.
• Proven ability to engage, coach, and support others to lift project capability.
• A collaborative style with the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

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!