New Zealand Job Openings

Open Polytechnic

EOI: Executive Director -Learning Delivery

Lower Hutt

November 7, 2024

Tēnā koe. Nau mai ki te Kuratini Tuwhera.
Open Polytechnic, a business division of Te Pūkenga is Aotearoa New Zealand's specialist online learning provider. We specialise in taking the learning to our students, focusing on enabling the success of approximately 30,000 ākonga each year. We're a place where you can make a difference.
We offer a wide range of learning disciplines from Real Estate to Social Work, Construction and Education. From our Academic Staff Members to our Student Journey Centre, we ensure our ākonga are at the heart of everything we do, every step of the way.
About the role
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced candidate to lead our Learning Delivery directorate as Acting Executive Director Learning Delivery. As a secondment from your permanent substantive role, this is expected to be for a fixed term of up to 6 months. This is to cover parental leave for the incumbent. The period of appointment is from early February 2025 to August 2025.
The Executive Director Learning Delivery is part of the polytechnic's Executive Leadership Team and is responsible for the delivery of learning and teaching activities. This includes facilitation and teaching, student mentoring, assessment, research, and associated educational support services.
This role is open to current permanent employees of Te Pūkenga only. Open Polytechnic offers flexible working arrangements to our kaimahi. In this role, as a member of the polytechnic's Executive leadership team, regular attendance on campus is an expectation.
The ideal candidate will have

A higher level tertiary qualification
Senior management experience
Experience in tertiary education and academic leadership, with good understanding of distance learning and e-learning
Experience leading and managing professionally qualified staff
Sound knowledge of digital educational delivery and associated staff training and competence requirements
Cultural capability skills and professional practice that recognises the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi

About us:
The Kuratini Tuwhera has an enviable reputation in the vocational sector with a campus situated in the Hutt Valley. We offer free education for our people and their whānau, free car parking on campus, flexible working options, a modernised working environment, subsidised school holiday programmes for your children, free fitness classes, and an on-site café.
If this role sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. Please outline in your cover letter why you wish to pursue this opportunity.
Applications must be submitted online via our careers' website.
Contact anne.dobie@openpolytechnic.ac.nz with any questions about the role.
Applications close on Monday 18 November 2024.
Noho ora mai. Tēnā koe.

Reference:
34772
Posted:
08 Nov 2024
Closes:
18 Nov 2024 12:00
Expertise:
Executive Management
Work type:
Fixed Term
Location:
Lower Hutt

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