Head of Health & Safety
- Fixed term or secondment opportunity until June 2026
- Wellington or Auckland based
- Internally called Domain Lead (L2)
The Opportunity | Ara Whiwhi Mahi
Use your expertise in Health & Safety (and perhaps also in Business Continuity & Crisis Management, and Corporate Security) to provide direction and leadership to our team. The team are responsible for delivering approaches, policies, processes and capabilities to manage risks to our people’s security, their health, safety and wellbeing, the security of our assets and to support IR leaders to operate through disruptive events.
You’ll operate as an effective and collaborative member of the Enterprise & Integrity Services wider leadership team.
In this role you will:
- Be our lead working with Officers on Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
- Be responsible for the development and implementation of approaches to Health Safety & Wellbeing, Business Continuity & Crisis Management, and Corporate Security.
- Oversee the team’s work programme and ensure the team’s results are delivered and create the best outcomes for Inland Revenue.
- Provide information and advice to the Executive Leadership Team on IR’s overall readiness and resilience.
- Acting as an escalation point for advice on issues relating specifically to Business Continuity, Health Safety & Wellbeing and Corporate Security.
- Actively identify and manage risks within your sphere of accountability, escalating risks where appropriate.
- Champion the development of the organisational resilience tool, empowering teams to proactively manage health, safety, and security incidents, while fostering collaboration in business continuity planning and crisis response.
About you | Mōu
- Be an expert in Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
- Provide specialist Organisational Resilience support, advice and services across the organisation to inform quality decision making.
- Champion a performance and customer focus within your team and with the wider Enterprise & Integrity Services function.
- Identify emerging Organisational Resilience trends and provide thought leadership to support the development of innovative solutions.
- Leverage your experience leading pragmatic, service delivery focused teams.
- Act as an escalation point to resolve complex issues, manage risk and ensure the integrity of advice provided.
- Use your specialist expertise to coach and mentor others to grow their capability to achieve better customer outcomes.
- Lead, plan and execute projects or initiatives including across networked teams, taking accountability for stakeholder management, project communications and deliverables.
- Identify development opportunities and build individual and organisational capability by taking a system-wide view, collaborating across IR.
About us | Mō mātou
At Inland Revenue Te Tari Taake we’re passionate about Aotearoa New Zealand being a great place to live and work. We’re making it simpler for everyone to pay tax that pays for things like health care, education and protecting the environment.
We are committed to keeping to the Treaty of Waitangi's guiding principles in our work for and with Māori customers and our employees, their whānau, hapū and iwi.
IR is committed to building an inclusive workplace free from inequalities, where all our people are valued, respected and feel supported to reach their full potential.
Apply here | Tono mai
Please apply online, attach a copy of your CV and a Cover Letter outlining your skills, experience and knowledge in line with requirements as in the advertisement and within the role description.
For specific queries or a copy of the role description, please email irdcareers@ird.govt.nz
Applications close 5pm, Sunday 24th August.
At Inland Revenue, we truly embrace diversity and inclusion and promote a flexible and supportive work environment that meets the needs of our people and business.
We have trust and integrity – we innovate to make a difference – we value people – we work together