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KELLY DUNN

Brooklyn,WGTN

Summary

An experienced senior leader, with a proven track record. I excel in fostering stakeholder relationships, driving strategic change and planning, efficient task completion, and ensuring seamless operations and team cohesion in challenging environments. Renowned for resilience, agile decision-making, and transformative policies and programs that significantly enhancing organisational performance and compliance.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Acting Chief Executive Officer

Ngapuhi Investment Fund Limited - Tupu Tonu
Wellington , Wellington
11.2024 - Current
  • Fostered collaboration and development of new practices by business leaders.
  • Ensured compliance with government regulations regarding safety standards and labor laws.
  • Developed creative solutions for complex problems facing the organization.
  • Increased productivity by creating new policies, objectives and procedures to streamline operations.

Deputy Chief Executive

Te Arawhiti
Wellington
08.2019 - 10.2024
  • Acted as the Chief Executive, as required.
  • Led Te Arawhiti’s relationship with the Minister for Māori-Crown Relations, providing strategic advice on risks and issues in the Māori-Crown Relations portfolio.
  • A member of the inaugural Te Arawhiti Executive Leadership Team and part of the overall direction setting of the new Departmental Agency and its development as an organisation, including the led for shaping the Māori-Crown Relations portfolio.
  • Led Te Arawhiti’s responsibility to build the Crown’s capability and performance as a Treaty partner by strengthening public sector capability to engage with Māori, including the design and implementation of the public sectors’ Whainga Amorangi programme.
  • Led Te Arawhiti’s responsibility to monitor the health of the Māori-Crown relationship.
  • Led Te Arawhiti’s post-settlement responsibilities for ensuring the Crown meets its commitments to settled iwi and supporting the resolution of significant post-settlement issues.
  • Led Te Arawhiti’s brokering solutions to challenging relationship issue’s function (i.e. 5G Spectrum, Kohanga Reo).
  • Led Te Arawhiti’s responsibility for the Crowns attendance at significant Māori-Crown events such as Ratana, Waitangi, Koroneihana and the inaugural Matariki public holiday including the design and implementation of the event fund.
  • Led Te Arawhiti’s engagement with Post Settled iwi including the National Iwi Chairs Forum
  • Led two of the four business units within Te Arawhiti.
  • Led successful baseline funding budget bids for Te Arawhiti’s core functions and dedicated funding for significant Māori-Crown events, Māori statues and symbols (which supported the Dame Whina statue in Panguru), COVID-19, and Matariki.
  • Led Te Arawhiti’s COVID 19 response and part of the whole of government Deputy Chief Executive’s group, including government policy development.
  • Led and managed organisational change processes.
  • Developed and managed budgets, risks, work programmes and outcomes for the Māori Crown Relations portfolio.
  • Ensured compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Senior Private Secretary

Te Puni Kōkiri
Wellington
10.2017 - 07.2019
  • Support the Minister across the Māori Development portfolio to achieve her strategic direction and outcomes.
  • Competently manage internal and external relationships, communicate concisely to a range of different audiences, advocate and influence government policy decisions, problem solve and find solutions within a stressful and high-pressure environment.

Assistance Deputy Chief Executive

Te Puni Kōkiri
Wellington
03.2016 - 09.2017
  • Led the policy group responsible for Māori Economic Development
  • International Delegations and Relations, Natural Resources, Primary
  • Sector, Treaty Settlements, and International Treaties such as the
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
  • Led the Te Ture Whenua Act Reform and the design and establishment of the Māori Land Service
  • Led the provision of advice to the Minister of Māori Development and
  • Chief Executive on the above policy matters
  • Led and managed organisational change processes
  • A member of the Te Puni Kōkiri Executive Leadership Team.

Manager

Te Puni Kōkiri, Whenua Māori
Wellington
06.2015 - 03.2016
  • With the Deputy Chief Executive, led the Te Ture Whenua Act Reform and the design and establishment of the Māori Land Service
  • Led the design and implement of the whenua Māori fund and programme
  • Led the provision of advice to the Minister of Māori Development and the Deputy Chief Executive on the Te Ture Whenua Act Reform, the
  • Māori Land Service and the whenua Māori fund and programme.

Director

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)
Wellington
05.2012 - 07.2015
  • Board member on First Light Farms Primary Growth Partnership joint venture (MPI representative).
  • Led the design, implementation, reporting, and evaluation of the Māori Agribusiness - Pathway to Increased Productivity (MAPIP) program.
  • Led the development of the Māori agribusiness reports, such as 'Growing the Productive Base of Māori Freehold Land (2013)', 'Economic Analysis of Prototype Interventions to Lift Māori Agribusiness Productivity (2014)', and 'The Mid-North (Northland) Multiple Māori Land Blocks (2015)'.
  • Led the Ministries' responsibility to deliver on the Māori Aquaculture Settlements for New Space commitments, including the development of the strategy and mechanisms required (economic forecasting model) to deliver on the Crown’s obligations.
  • Led the negotiations of Aquaculture New Space regional agreements with iwi.
  • Led the Ministries’ responsibility to deliver on the Māori Fisheries Act obligations - customary fisheries.
  • Led a regional based team across Māori agribusiness, Māori Fisheries and Māori Aquaculture Settlements.
  • Led the provision of advice to the Minister for Primary Industries and the Deputy Chief Executive regarding Māori agribusiness, Māori Fisheries and Māori Aquaculture Settlements.
  • Managed organisational change processes.

Pou Hononga Manager

Ministry of Fisheries, Wellington
Wellington
04.2010 - 04.2012
  • Led the Ministries’ responsibility to deliver on the Māori Fisheries Act obligations, focusing on customary fisheries including the redesign of the function.
  • Led a regional based team servicing the Māori Fisheries function.
  • Led the provision of advice to the Minister of Fisheries and the Deputy Chief Executive regarding meeting obligations under the Māori Fisheries Act, including policy advice.
  • Managed organisational change processes.

Regional Team Manager

Crown Forestry Rental Trust
Wellington
08.2006 - 04.2010
  • Led a team of Relationship Managers covering Treaty Settlements and
  • Waitangi Tribunal claims processes
  • Led the provision of claimant funding advice to the Board of Trustee’s to support funding decisions
  • Managed the assistance and provision of advice to the claimant communities to develop business plans and funding applications in line with the Trust’s policy to support the achievement of a Treaty
  • Settlement
  • Built and maintained effective relationships with key influences and stakeholders within the communities
  • Built and maintained effective relationships with treaty sector agencies
  • Led the design and implementation of the new Specialist Advice contracts, policies, processes, and tools to reflect the changing settlement environment.

Education

Executive Fellows Programme -

Australian and New Zealand School of Government
Sydney
11.2012

Bachelor of Education -

Wellington College of Education
Wellington, NZ
11.1998

Skills

  • Resilience
  • Decision-making
  • Self-awareness
  • Funding and programme design and implementation
  • Agile
  • Adaptable
  • Flexible
  • Stakeholder Relations
  • Management
  • Long-term vision
  • Planning
  • Action and outcomes focussed

References

Provided on request.

Timeline

Acting Chief Executive Officer

Ngapuhi Investment Fund Limited - Tupu Tonu
11.2024 - Current

Deputy Chief Executive

Te Arawhiti
08.2019 - 10.2024

Senior Private Secretary

Te Puni Kōkiri
10.2017 - 07.2019

Assistance Deputy Chief Executive

Te Puni Kōkiri
03.2016 - 09.2017

Manager

Te Puni Kōkiri, Whenua Māori
06.2015 - 03.2016

Director

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)
05.2012 - 07.2015

Pou Hononga Manager

Ministry of Fisheries, Wellington
04.2010 - 04.2012

Regional Team Manager

Crown Forestry Rental Trust
08.2006 - 04.2010

Executive Fellows Programme -

Australian and New Zealand School of Government

Bachelor of Education -

Wellington College of Education

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