Te Pae Aramahi Development Boards

Development Boards work across the Public Service system to support the development of senior leaders. Development Boards focus on providing leaders with cross-agency development opportunities and address system-wide leadership capability needs within their functional area or region.

There are three functional boards: Corporate, Operations and Policy; one regional board for Auckland, and an overarching System Development Board. The System Development Board ensures consistency across all boards and sets the combined areas of focus for the Boards.

The Development Boards are focusing on the development of leaders from underrepresented groups to help ensure the Public Service is well led and reflects the makeup of New Zealand communities. 

Each Development Board also has a unique area of focus:

• Te Pae Aramahi Kaupapa Here | Policy Development Board: to create policy leaders who support good ministerial decisions that improve the lives of New Zealanders.
• Te Pae Aramahi Whakahaere | Operations Development Board: to create leaders who will transform Public Service operations for a future that better delivers for New Zealanders.
• Te Pae Aramahi Rangatōpū | Corporate Development Board: to create strategic leaders who stimulate and lift Public Service performance through corporate service-led transformation.
• Te Pae Aramahi o Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland Development Board: to facilitate opportunities for building the leadership capability of the Auckland cohort.
• Te Pae Aramahi Pūnaha | System Development Board: provides a mechanism for ensuring consistency where needed across all of other boards and sets the combined areas of focus with input from boards.

Te Pae Aramahi | Development Board Chairs 

• Te Pae Aramahi Kaupapa Here | Policy Development Board Chair — Paul James
• Te Pae Aramahi Whakahaere | Operations Development Board Chair — Andrew Hampton
• Te Pae Aramahi Rangatōpū | Corporate Development Board Chair — New chair will be appointed shortly
• Te Pae Aramahi o Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland Development Board Chair — Karen Chang
• Te Pae Aramahi Pūnaha | System Development Board Chair — Heather Baggott

Find further information about each board chair: Current Public Service leaders

Development Boards provide Public Service leaders with cross-agency development opportunities, supporting agencies and their leaders to access development from anywhere across the system. Development in this context is focused on helping leaders to:

• gain independent career and development advice from a chief executive or deputy chief executive
• receive valuable developmental feedback from a Development Board.
• become more visible which can open up opportunities for future development.
• access mentoring, coaching, shadowing or other workplace opportunities.

Leaders are responsible for their own development and the primary development relationship for leaders is with their agency and manager. Development Boards are a system approach to ensure the Public Service has the capability it needs.

Development Boards are not able to place leaders directly into contestable processes for permanent roles and secondments.