From the CE: Accountability and balance

ENZ has experienced a challenging operating environment in recent years, and it continues to work through changing expectations. In order to best prepare the organisation for the challenges ahead, I recently initiated an organisational restructure, the decisions of which were released to staff this week following a two-week consultation process. 

I have been very clear as to what I am looking to achieve and have set out the following driving principles of:

• Clear accountability for the delivery of core services and enabling support.
• Achieving a balance between New Zealand based and offshore capability.
• Improving decision making, communication and collaboration by ensuring appropriate spans of control.
• Optimising spend, where appropriate, to meet government expectations.
• Identifying and creating opportunities for investment into the future capability needed to deliver our strategy.
• Positioning ENZ to deliver at speed, with agility and reinforce a culture of high performance.

Key changes include a realignment and reduction of Senior Leadership roles by more than half, a focus on lifting the capability and resourcing of our international teams, changes for Sector Engagement and Services with a pivot toward a stronger focus on international services, and the creation of a Strategy, Capability and Performance Group. In total 28 roles have been disestablished with 17 new roles created. 

ENZ now moves into a process to fill these new roles – with leadership roles to be advertised externally shortly. The new organisational structure will come into effect on 3 February 2025. 

Change is never easy and I understand how difficult this has been for our ENZ team. I am very proud of the professional way everyone has engaged with this process. 

I appreciate your understanding and patience for our people as we work through the implementation of this new structure. In the meantime, your key contacts and teams will remain the same. I will be able to provide a further update in the New Year.

He taonga rongonui te aroha ki te tangata

Kindness to all people is a great treasure.