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An “agile” body created to run the nation’s 16 polytechnic schools will pay its seven top officials at least $ 2.3 million in its first year and has spent $ 1.3 million on consultants in its first six months.
The New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology (NZIST) has disclosed the salaries of its six deputy CEOs, with new recruits earning between $ 253,249 and $ 392,214 each year.
The new organization, which has fewer than 20 employees at its Hamilton headquarters, will pay the six MPs at least $ 1.6 million in total, while CEO Stephen Town will take home $ 688,235, one of the highest salaries. of the public sector in the country.
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Stephen Town is the inaugural Executive Director of the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology in July. He is paid $ 688,000 and has appointed six deputy CEOs.
At least one of the NZIST MPs will take home $ 392,214, which, according to the 2019 Public Sector Rich List, is a higher annual salary than the CEOs of the Serious Fraud Office, the Blood Service of New Zealand, Maritime New Zealand, and six district health boards.
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Education Minister Chris Hipkins said the organization was an “investment in New Zealand’s future”, while National’s tertiary education spokesperson Simeon Brown said it was “an investment for six people to have comfortable jobs. “.
NZIST initially declined to reveal the salary band for the six MPs, but released the figures after Stuff complained to the Ombudsman.
The new Deputy Executive Director (DCE) appointments at NZIST are:
- Partnerships and Equity: Ana Morrison, currently Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships and Maori Success at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology.
- Student Experience and Experience: Tania Winslade, current Managing Director of Maori Outcomes at Auckland Council.
- Employer Travel: Warwick Quinn, currently Executive Director of the Building and Construction Industry Training Organization.
- Delivery and Scholar: Angela Beaton, currently General Manager for National Women’s Health at the Auckland District Board of Health.
- Transformation and transition: Merran Davis, current interim CEO of the Unitec Institute of Technology.
- Operations: Vaughan Payne, current executive director of the Waikato Regional Council.
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Warwick Quinn, Executive Director of the Building and Construction Industry Training Organization, has been appointed Deputy Executive Director of “Employer Travel” at New Zealand’s New Mega Tech, New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology .
In July, Hipkins said that he expected NZIST to be “agile” and not “another layer of management.” The Crown would spend nearly $ 121 million to reorganize the tertiary sector by the end of 2022.
Most of the existing polytechnics have retained their senior management teams, which means that at least 21 people within the industry now have “CEOs” in their jobs.
The maximum salary for NZIST deputies is higher than what most Polytech CEOs earned last year.
A polytechnic tutor who spoke with Stuff Anonymously, he said that the deputies were “basically an additional cost.”
He hoped that some executive directors of the existing polytechnics would be reappointed.
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Merran Davis will serve as NZIST’s Deputy Executive Director for “Transformation and Transition”.
“I’m a bit cynical about the whole thing. We have not seen any changes yet and we have yet to see what progress will be made.
“There’s a lot of talk, but I don’t think any of us believe there will be any noticeable changes in the next two or three years,” he said.
Town, the former chief executive of the Auckland Council, said he and the six deputy chief executives had three-year fixed-term contracts.
“Together, we have a great deal of work to do… to create a cohesive and sustainable vocational education system that serves students and employers.
“NZIST DCEs will work collaboratively with all 16 subsidiaries, their staff of nearly 8,000, and a combined revenue of just over $ 1 billion per year, as the system transforms.”
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The outgoing head of the Waikato Regional Council, Vaughan Payne, will be the deputy executive director of “operations.”
In a statement issued in August, he said the new leadership team brought a “diverse and multifaceted set of skills, knowledge and experience.”
Hipkins used the same descriptors in a statement Thursday.
“I have been informed that the current team offers a diverse and multifaceted set of skills, knowledge and experience that complements the experience that already exists.”
He said the high-level appointments were “an essential step” toward establishing the organization.
National previously promised to eliminate NZIST if it won the election. Brown said a “new level of bureaucracy” was not what was needed in a time of economic crisis.
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Education Minister Chris Hipkins says NZIST is an investment in the future.
Louis Houlbrooke of the New Zealand Taxpayers Union said wages were a good example of how “wasteful spending” could accumulate at the top and middle management levels.
“Well-paid CEOs are widely criticized for their salaries, but the real waste often falls on their many MPs, who lack the same level of public scrutiny and accountability,” he said.
The new DCEs are expected to take office in early November. NZIST is also governed by an eight-member council.
The Tertiary Education Union was contacted for comment.
Additional reporting by Joanne Carroll.
