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General Manager – People & Culture

Applications close: Friday 1st August 2025

Contemporary, visionary and inspirational People and Culture leader
Lead the development of Workforce strategy to support organisational performance and service delivery excellence
Play a critical role in the building of workforce capacity, capability and engagement

THE OPPORTUNITY

Spectrum Group is a charitable group of entities with a 30-year history, which includes Spectrum Foundation, Spectrum Care and Homes of Choice.

Spectrum Foundation’s role is to empower self-determination for disabled people and their whānau through accessible and equitable funding. The Foundation’s aim is to distribute $1 million annually to support unmet need in its priority areas of health, housing, education and employment.

Spectrum Care is a disability support provider that aims to maximise the potential of the people and whānau it supports by empowering choice, freedom and independence. Spectrum Care offers a wide array of support options catered to those with learning and physical disability, brain injury and/or multiple diagnosis across all ages and stages of a disabled person’s life.

Homes of Choice is a community housing provider that delivers great homes, enabling choice and affordability for disabled New Zealanders. Homes of Choice works in partnership with the Crown, philanthropists and impact investors to provide a better life for disabled people and their whānau.

All three entities share a Vision of ‘an Aotearoa in which all disabled people have equal opportunity to live good lives’, and the Values of ‘Equity – We treat everyone fairly’, ‘Dignity – We honour and respect each other’, ‘Ambition – We dream big’ and ‘Sustainability – We do what’s best’.

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Group Chief Executive and working closely with the Executive Team, the General Manager – People and Culture will lead the Group functions of Recruitment, Human Resources, Safety and Wellbeing and Learning and Development, providing high-quality shared services across the Group through quality people, working with quality systems, within a supporting culture.

The role is responsible for high-level strategic workforce and organisational planning that will result in the implementation of effective people management and wellbeing frameworks, policies and procedures.

THE CANDIDATE

The successful candidate will have proven success in a senior management role with a substantive HR/organisational development focus, ideally within a mid- to large-sized organisation. They will have tertiary level qualifications in a relevant field and knowledge of the health system and of the role and function of community services and facilities.

Key competencies of leadership, adaptability, achievement, drive, service orientation, innovation and optimism are critical for success in this role. Familiarity with, and success in, strategic and operational planning, change management and organisational development are some of the key management competencies associated with the role.

The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to advancing the rights and wellbeing of disabled people by empowering self-determination, equity, dignity, inclusion and choice. This will be further demonstrated through an understanding of the interconnected frameworks of Enabling Good Lives, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the context of disabled rights.