Kim Hegarty has been appointed to the newly created role.
Crown company Network for Learning (N4L) has announced the appointment of Kim Hegarty to the newly created role of chief people officer, with effect from March 22.
A returning New Zealander, Hegarty joins N4L following a decade delivering people strategies that support organisational growth and transformation across the telecommunications, construction, and renewable energy sectors in the UK.
Most recently, Hegarty spent five years leading HR strategy at Balfour Beatty, the UK’s largest construction company. She has held other senior HR roles at the technology division of British Telecom and at The Crown Estate, a multi-billion-dollar real estate company managing Crown-owned property.
In New Zealand, Hegarty has filled HR roles with Whakatāne District and Bay of Plenty Regional Councils.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled to be coming home to New Zealand and joining …an organisation with such a strong social purpose [and] bold ambitions to boost digital equity,” Hegarty said.
N4L expects employee numbers to rise by 20% before the end June 2021, in response to its expanding role supporting schools and kura through its new Security Operations Centre, which is part of the Ministry Education’s Te Mana Tūhono programme and also involves upgrading school ICT network equipment nationwide.
Speaking about the new appointment, N4L chief executive Larrie Moore said: “Kim joins the company at a significant and exciting time of organisational growth that coincides with more flexible ways of working accelerated by the global pandemic. …
“Our success as a technology company working with schools and kura is credited as much to the capabilities of our highly skilled people as it is to the relationships they form with our partners in education, technology and government,” Moore said.
Prior to a career in HR, Hegarty was a teacher in Japan. Originally from Nelson, she credits her father, a retired high school principal, for sparking an early appreciation of education careers.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce with honours in HR and strategy from the University of Canterbury.
Hegarty recently shifted to Auckland and was looking forward to exploring the city and swapping her previous running route along the Thames river to one that follows the Eastern Bays.
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