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Network Delivery Manager - Strategic Projects & Portfolio
Type of contract: FTC 9 months
Location: Aotearoa New Zealand
Salary (NZD): The starting salary is $95,393 per annum with the possibility of up to $103,570 based on an assessment of skills and experience at the interview stage
Closing date: The deadline to apply is ideally Thursday, 3rd July 2025. However, due to the high volume of interest we receive for our roles, we reserve the right to close the advert early, on Thursday, 26th June 2025, if we receive a strong pool of suitable candidates. We encourage early applications.
The role
Are you a strategic delivery expert who thrives in complex, multi-stakeholder environments? Do you have a passion for enabling others and driving meaningful change?
World Animal Protection is seeking a highly motivated Network Delivery Manager – Strategic Projects & Portfolio to play a pivotal role in delivering our most important cross-organisational priorities. This role will sit at the heart of our global planning and delivery work, managing key strategic projects and supporting teams across our network to deliver with pace, alignment and impact.
As a member of the Network Delivery team, you will help ensure delivery momentum, clarity and accountability across our project portfolio – contributing directly to our mission of moving the world to protect animals.
Who are we?
World Animal Protection is the global voice for animal welfare, with 75 years’ experience campaigning for a world where animals live free from cruelty and suffering.
We have offices in 14 countries and work across 47 countries. We collaborate with local communities, the private sector, civil society and governments to change animals’ lives for the better.
Our goal is to change the way the world works to end animal cruelty and suffering for both wild and farmed animals. Through our global food system strategy, we’re working to end factory farming and create a humane and sustainable food system, that puts animals first. By transforming the broken systems that fuel exploitation and commodification, we will give wild animals the right to a wild life. Our work to protect animals will play a vital role in solving the climate emergency, the public health crisis, and the devastation of natural habitats.
What can we offer you?
In NZ, we are offering a competitive salary and wellbeing benefits including. *Benefits vary across locations.
- Birthday leave
- Parental leave topped up to full pay
- Menstrual and Menopausal leave (12 days)
- End of year and mid-year gifted leave days
- One additional day of anniversary leave per year of service up to a maximum of five years
- Employees can work 30 days overseas in a 12-month period
- Extended bereavement leave (10 days)
- Disability leave
- Menstrual/Menopause leave
- Pregnancy Loss, Fertility Treatment, Gender Affirming Medical needs,
- Companion Animal Bereavement, and 'Pawternity' leave.
Our wellbeing leave is in place to support belonging and inclusion at work and to assist our employees during critical moments. For a full list of our benefits, please visit the work with us page on our website.
To support our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive employer where people are free to be their whole selves, we warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those from under-represented communities - including but not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Tangata Whenua (people of the land), members of the LGBTQIA+ community, neurodiverse individuals, and people with disabilities.
At World Animal Protection we recruit with our values & behaviours in mind. Please bear this in mind through your application journey. These are:
Global: We make decisions & act with a global mindset
Diverse and Inclusive: We actively encourage and promote diversity, ensure all voices are heard and included and are committed to equal opportunities for all
Collaborative: We work together and co-create to achieve lasting change
Agile: We make change happen in a fast-moving world
Growing People: We continually learn and develop
Accountable: We are role models. We take responsibility for our actions and encourage others to do the same
Courageous: We push boundaries, take risks and set ambitious targets
