Karen Mather

Experience

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  Department for Courts (Justice Department)

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2000

  Regional IT Support and Training Advisor

  Supported both High and District Court Judges and their support staff with their IT skills development. Provided IT support including hardware and software upgrades. Supported staff in an external company when we outsourced some functions. Heavily involved in the support, training and management of the Wanganui Computer System in the areas of criminal records and fines management.

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  Statistics New Zealand

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2005

  Analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation of staff learning programmes including induction and on-boarding; specialist skills; IT skills development (including in-house systems) and leadership. Used blended learning approaches and developed the e-learning components. Coordinated the introduction of a graduate recruitment programme.

  • Educational Designer

    Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

  • Training Consultant

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
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  University of Canterbury

  Jun 2005 - now

  • Lead and manage the end-to-end delivery of a programme of complex and transformational organisational development projects that support UC’s strategy. • Work with the Senior Leadership Team, Academic Board, academic leaders, and other significant roles and groups within in the organisation to achieve programme goals, contributing to the academic leadership voice being included, and whanaungatanga valued.• Deliver the agreed programme of work.• Identify and engage stakeholders.• Champion and model robust change management methodology ensuring people are at the forefront of the programme implementation. The scope of the role is organisation wide. Show less I develop and implement organisational development strategies that build leadership and workforce capability in support of the University’s statement of strategic intent. I lead the Organisational Culture development programme at UC. I promote the development, continuous improvement and implementation of organisational development, human resources advisory and human resources administration processes, systems and policies so that they support managers and staff to build workforce capability. I champion and support the building of change capability at UC. Show less A three year transformational project to transition distributed HR transactional services to a Shared Services model. The objective was to streamline and re-engineer HR processes across the University to a consistent standard and automate where possible. This enabled administrative services to be provided by customer-service focused admin professionals and for HR Advisors to concentrate on the HR business partner and transformational aspects of their roles. This included:- The implementation of an HR Service Desk with agreed levels of service to client groups.- The integration of two distinct roles, Payroll Officer and HR Administrator, into the new role of Pay and HR Administrator. - The review, consultation and improvement of all HR administrative processes.- Role clarifications across the functions.I continued to manage the functions of my team:- Professional development programme across the University- The HR internal communications functions and- HR Toolkit. Show less

  • Director, Academy Affiliation and Organisational Development

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Programme Director (People and Culture)

    Apr 2020 - Oct 2022

  • Welfare workstream lead COVID-19 response - Incident Management Team

    Apr 2020 - Jun 2020

  • Organisational Development Manager

    Jun 2015 - Apr 2020

  • HR Shared Services Manager

    Jul 2011 - Jun 2015

  • Learning and Development Manager

    Jun 2005 - Jun 2011