Kelly Turner

• Member of tier three leadership team, involved in strategic planning, organisational leadership and capability building
• Lead direct reports, including performance, professional learning goals and wellbeing
• Building project capability across the organisation
• Completing PMO maturity assessments and identifying strategic next steps
• Advise and report to executives
• Championed diversity and inclusion efforts within the workplace, cultivating an environment that fosters innovation through diverse perspectives.
• Cost centre management
• Risk identification and mitigation at both project/programme and organisational levels
• Developed project reporting practices, including data gathering and analysis
• Portfolio manager for MSD Integrated Work Programme
• Collaborated closely with Risk and Assurance team
• Facilitating cross business group networks and connections for efficient and high functioning project teams
• Developed a suite of fit-for-purpose project management templates, resources and methodologies
• Developed risk frameworks and reporting
• Initiated and led communities of practice for technology focussed projects organisation wide and project management in general to combat siloed ways of working and increase capability
• Initiated organisation and PMO wide capability building in the use of SharePoint, information management, change management, digital workspaces, Planner app and project management (waterfall and Agile)
• Member of values development committee and created resources and led training for tier three managers and executives on identity and values
• Led a People and Capability project with a focus on te ao Māori
• Accomplished multiple tasks within established timeframes.
• Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.

• Lead a cohesive, high functioning team of advisors across several workstreams in a very fast paced, highly productive, agile environment
• Provide strategic direction and ‘road maps' in all workstreams to meet the organisation's strategic outcomes.
• Collaborate closely and contribute to policy development, including peer review and practical sense making
• Design processes and procedures to implement policy
• Plan and execute the dissemination and socialization of policy
• Design evaluations of projects, including data gathering and analytics
• Collaborate across several teams within the business
• Advise and report to executives, Governing Council and Ministers
• Develop and maintain excellent collaborative relations with stakeholders
• Forecast and manage budgets for several cost centres
• Manage recruitment, contracting and implementation of several stakeholder panels, advisory groups, working groups and expert groups
• Develop presentation content and lead presentations and symposiums at conferences and workshops with stakeholders
• Lead direct reports, including performance, professional learning goals and wellbeing
• Mentor emerging leaders across the organisation
• Manage capacity and work to deadlines
• Early identification of risks and develop plans to mitigate these
• Consult on legislation changes and develop guidelines, rules and pathways to implement these
• Design and use digital platforms such as Salesforce
• Developing a method to gain stakeholder voice and consultation for the policy team
• Motivating a team to complete an inherited back log that had been in place for years
• Developing systems and procedures that provide data, efficiency, timely, quality, pre-emptive outcomes
• Developing reports that have had multiple applications
• Highly regarded member of several steering and planning groups across education, health, disabilities and tertiary sector agencies.
• Facilitating cohesion and sharing of practice to historically siloed stakeholder entities

Overview: Resource Teacher's of Learning and Behaviour are a national service that support school based inclusive education practices from years 1-10, often working in partnership with MoE, health specialists, social agencies and whānau.

• Lead a team of specialist teachers in a large geographical area, over three sites
• Monitor case loads and provide coaching and mentoring
• Collaborate closely with inter-professionals
• Individualised assessments, planning, implementation and resource allocation
• Support school leadership teams to meet their inclusive education goals
• Provide Professional Learning Development to schools
• Support the team's performance, goals and wellbeing
• Strategic direction and implementation of new policies and legislation
• Developing research-based resources

• Prior work history includes specialist and teaching positions and school leadership roles – details willingly supplied on request.