• Provide high-quality insights and transparency of organisational performance
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement of our performance reports
• Join a collaborative and supportive team in a values-driven organisation

Kaunihera Taiao ki Waitaha │ About Environment Canterbury

As a regional council, we are responsible for managing natural resources including air, soil, water and land. We work in partnership with mana whenua Ngāi Tahu to protect the health of our environment to ensure a sustainable and prosperous future for our region.

The region’s evolving environmental and political context means we will continue to be agile and adaptive, as we respond to regulatory and environmental changes.

Our mahi (work) is organised around the delivery of our three core services:

• Environmental Regulation and Protection
• Community Preparedness and Response to Hazards
• Public Transport

Kōrero mō te Tūranga | About the Role

As our Principal Advisor – Organisational Performance Reporting, you’ll provide high-quality reporting to Executive Leadership, Council and the community to demonstrate transparency and accountability of organisational performance, help the organisation meet its statutory performance reporting requirements and improve its overall performance reporting capabilities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the preparation and development of the organisation’s quarterly Core Services Performance Reports for the Executive Leadership Team, Council, and the community to report on progress against the Council’s Annual Plan and Long-Term Plan.
• Lead the end to end development of the Council’s Annual Report, ensuring compliance with Local Government statutory reporting requirements and a high degree of transparency and accountability for the community.
• Act as a senior point of engagement with external auditors, providing advice, anticipating audit risks, and ensuring the organisation is well-prepared for interim and annual audits.
• Drive the development and continuous improvement of the Council’s Outcomes Reports, ensuring outcome measures, insights, and commentary enable informed decision making and clearly communicate progress toward the long term outcomes sought by the Council.
• Lead innovation in performance reporting, identifying, designing, and embedding new or improved reporting processes, tools, and methodologies that enhance insight, usability, transparency, and accountability.
• Foster strong relationships with directors, senior managers, and cross functional teams to ensure a coordinated, high-quality approach to performance reporting and organisational accountability.
• Provide on-the-job coaching to lift organisational performance reporting capabilities across the organisation.

For more information on this role, please refer to the job description at the bottom of the advert.

Mōu │ About You

You are an experienced Principal with a strong background in organisational performance reporting, business analysis or communications. You foster strong collaborative relationships which you leverage to support delivery. Curious and innovative, you are accomplished at identifying, designing, and embedding new or improved reporting processes, tools, and methodologies. You are highly organised, able to work to tight deadlines and confident working with senior leaders. You bring a pragmatic can-do attitude to your work which you apply to developing/writing the content of a report through to coaching other staff to lift the organisation’s performance reporting capabilities.

Mātau ā-Wheako | Experience  

You’ll have a degree in business, communications, natural or physical resource management or a related discipline along with:

• At least eight years’ experience in organisational performance reporting, business analysis, communications or a related field.
• A proven record of delivering high-quality executive level performance reports, dashboards, presentations and providing organisational performance reporting advice.
• Excellent analytical, written, editing and proofreading skills for preparing non-financial and financial information for non-technical audiences.
• Proven project management skills to maximise delivery against deadlines.
• Strong relationship management and negotiation skills to influence buy-in, gain commitment or resolve conflicts around the development of organisational performance reports.

Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Kaunihera Taiao ki Waitaha | Working at Environment Canterbury  

Our mahi is underpinned by our values:

• Kaitiakitanga (stewardship)
• Pononga (integrity)
• Manaakitanga (people first)
• Whanaungatanga (collaboration)
• Māiatanga (can do)

We understand and embrace a diverse workforce; this diversity will enable us to better serve our people, our community, and our greatest taonga, the environment. We value everyone’s contribution, diverse thinking, and skills.

We're on a journey to become a treaty partner of excellence, including incorporating te ao Māori into our work. We offer supportive opportunities to develop capability in this area and encourage our people to use kaupapa Māori, mātauranga Māori, and te reo Māori in our daily work. We welcome you with an open heart & mind, wherever you are on your personal te ao Māori journey.

Ko ētahi atu kōrero | Additional Information

For a confidential chat about this role please contact Carmen Marsh at Carmen.Marsh@ecan.govt.nz or by phone on 021 194 1233.

Applications close on Tuesday 31 March. Short-listed candidates will be required to complete an interview process, reference checks, and a criminal check. Further background checking will be required when relevant to the role. 

We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.

Me mahi tahi tātou - Together we can