Practice and Implementation Adviser (R5)

Learning Support

The Practice and Implementation Adviser works with the Performance and Quality Lead to
implement changes to national practice within their region. They support induction and
professional development of field staff and work with regional Service Leads to support field
workers.
The Practice and Implementation Adviser are responsible for learning support and education
practice development, implementation, and guidance at a regional level and provide general
practice support across regional teams.
Leads change through personal leadership that influences and enthuses others through
personal advocacy, vision and drive, in collaboration with colleagues.

Reports Performance and Quality Lead

Pay Band A8

Purpose of the Ministry of Education

What Our Purpose
Lift aspiration, raise educational achievement for every New Zealander

Why Our Vision

Every New Zealander:
• Is strong in their national and cultural identity
• Aspires for themselves and their children to achieve more
• Has the choice and opportunity to be the best they can be
• Is an active participant and citizen in creating a strong civil society
• Is productive, valued and competitive in the world
New Zealand and New Zealanders lead globally
How Our Behaviours:
• We get the job done
• We are respectful, we listen, we learn
• We back ourselves and others to win
• We work together for maximum impact
Great results are our bottom line
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Key Priorities

 An initial focus is on the implementation of learning support and embedding best practice
and the associated culture shift, with the move to also focus on education practice over
time.

 Take an all-of-system (0-21) approach to practice looking up and down and across the
wider education network.
 Build and maintain strong relationships with the education sector including local
communities of learning, with the aim of assessing how their needs impact on current and
future state practice for Ministry frontline staff and the system as a whole.
 Provide practice thought leadership and facilitate the broadening of field workers thinking to
an all-of system approach to practice.
 Supporting and enabling the adoption and implementation of the new ways of thinking
behaving and working.
 Establish best practice for staff in brokering services and marshalling resources that will
promote seamless education services in the region.
 Contextualise for the region how we adapt our access and services to support end to end
learning.
 With colleagues across the ten regions, and with the National Practice and Implementation
Leads, contribute specialist expertise to meet practice specific needs of all regions.
 Proactively contribute to the development of an effective working environment within
Learning Support function regionally and nationally that encourages high performance,
engagement, collaboration across teams, knowledge sharing, ongoing learning, creativity
and innovation.

Key Relationships

This role will require strong working relationships with the:

 Director and their management team
 Staff across the region

 National Practice and Implementation Leads

 Practice and Implementation Advisers in other teams

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Qualifications and Personal Attributes

 Must hold a relevant tertiary qualification

 Experience of implementation of frameworks across organisations that support capability
building
 Be a powerful role model with ability to quickly develop high credibility across the region
 Have a high level of conceptual and analytical capability, including reading, analysing and
critiquing research
 Demonstrated knowledge and capability to develop effective inquiry based professional
learning and development
 Have demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships and effective networks with
key internal and external stakeholders
 Strong written and verbal communication skills

 Effectively leading changes to practice

Competencies

Drive for results

 Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully

 Is constantly and consistently one of the top performers

 Very bottom-line oriented
 Steadfastly pushes self and others for results

Functional/Technical skills
 Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of
accomplishment

Interpersonal savvy
 Relates well to all kinds of people – up, down and sideways, inside and outside the
organisation
 Builds appropriate rapport

 Builds constructive and effective relationships

 Uses diplomacy and tact

 Can defuse even high-tension situations comfortably

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Learning on the fly

 Learns quickly when facing new problems

 A relentless and versatile learner

 Open to change

 Analyses both successes and failures for clues to improvement

 Experiments and will try anything to find solutions
 Quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything

Problem-solving
 Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
 Probes all fruitful sources for answers

 Can see hidden problems

 Is excellent at honest analysis

 Looks beyond obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers

Tātai Pou
 Demonstration of Tātai Pou competencies - at least Minimal level:

 Pou Hono – Valuing Māori – Minimal

 Pou Mana – Knowledge of Māori content – Minimal

 Pou Kipa – Achieving equitable education outcomes for Māori - Minimal