Overseas Manager Exchanges

The Taituarā Overseas Manager Exchange Programme is designed to provide local government managers with an opportunity to focus on their management development and career in local government through a short exchange with a partner manager in another country.

The Overseas Manager Exchange Programme is one of a range of Taituarā initiatives that provide leadership and development opportunities specifically tailored to the local government environment.

Many Taituarā members have benefited from the programme and through this professional, personal and cultural experience, most have gone back to their local authorities inspired and armed with a better perspective and increased knowledge of local government. Exchange recipients are surprised how similar the challenges faced by their overseas colleagues are to their own.

These exchanges are offered with the support of our sponsors AskYourTeam, Marsh and Civic Financial Services.

Winners of the 2021 exchanges are:

• Emerging Leader of the Year Award - Darren de Klerk, Director, Central Hawke’s Bay Council
  
• Overseas Manager Exchange sponsored by Marsh - Simon Mutonhori, Group Manager – Planning and Regulatory Services, Wairoa District Council
• Overseas Manager Exchange sponsored by Civic Financial Services - Jason Marris, General Manager, Kaipara District Council and
  
• The AskYourTeam Melbourne Business School Leadership Scholarship - Louise Miller, Chief Executive, Kaipara District Council

Each exchange involves a hosted visit to the destination country and the hosting of a reciprocal visitor from that country during the time period of the Taituarā Conference.

Apply

Applications for the 2021 Awards, Exchanges and Scholarships will open in November 2021.

Contact

For more information on the Overseas Manager Exchanges, please email info@taituara.org.nz.

2018 exchanges tell their stories