Jeremy Greenbrook-Held

Research Analyst, Institute Research Office at Unitec Institute of Technology

Location: New Zealand
Industry: Research

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Jeremy Greenbrook-Held's Overview

Current

Research Analyst, Institute Research Office, Finance and Infrastructure Directorate at Unitec Institute of Technology

Past

Student Experience Manager at Manukau Institute of Technology
Investment Advisor at Tertiary Education Commission
Postgraduate Research Assistant at Victoria University of Wellington

District Supervisor - Wellington Central at Statistics New Zealand
Student President, Executive Member at Victoria University of Wellington Students Association

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Education

Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington

Massey University
Kaipara College

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I specialise in statistical analysis, organisational financial and strategic performance, and grass-roots management. My main area of expertise is tertiary education, but I have a professional interest in demographic trends, technological access and diffusion, and political and legislative pressures.

I am interested in senior advisor / analyst or middle-management roles with a strategic or analytical focus.

My key value ad is in being able to break down, interpret and communicate trends from large and varied datasets in order to bring about organisational improvement and change.

Research Analyst, Institute Research Office, Finance and Infrastructure Directorate

Unitec Institute of Technology

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

March 2012 – Present (1 year 3 months) Mt Albert, Auckland

Contract role while the Finance and Infrastructure Directorate under-goes a review.

Responsibilities
 Member of the Unitec 2013-15 Investment Plan development working group.
 Responsibility the management of the Tertiary Education Commission’s Educational Performance Indicators.
 Constructed various queries in PeopleSoft V9.
 Handled ad-hoc internal data requests as and when needed.

Achievements
 Centrally involved in the development of the 2013-15 Investment Plan.
 Provided input into the Level 1 and 2 SAC contestable bid.
 Developed and built a data utilization tool to enable more effective access to performance data for non-analysts.
 Collated and documented historic market (enrollment) trends, and built a model to forecast future enrollments. Worked alongside Market Insights staff to align enrollment data with target audience rating points (TARPs).
 Provided high-level advice in response to various external matters, including significant changes in government policy and the release of Parliamentary information relating to the Youth Guarantee scheme.

Student Experience Manager

Manukau Institute of Technology

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry

January 2009 – February 2012 (3 years 2 months) Manukau, New Zealand

Responsibilities
 Responsibility for the establishment of a new department, taking on new and existing roles across a large Institute of Technology
 Day-to-day management and leadership of a department of permanent and contract staff and responsibility for a budget
 Strategic responsibility for developing student-focused facilities and services, including the Student Peer Mentoring scheme and student representation
 Regular liaison and consultation with internal academic and service departments, as well as several external tertiary education organisations, such as Student Job Search and StudyLink
 On occasion, coordinated student discipline appeals and hearings (as a senior manager within the Student Affairs Directorate)

Achievements
 Developed a number of significant income streams, enabling us to expand the MIT ‘student experience’.
 Established a team of staff, including hiring, administrative processes, restructuring, and budget allocation
 Project champion for several wider projects, such as the MIT Travel Plan, MIT Smoke Free Campuses Policy, and the development of a Student Digital Communications Strategy
 Developed a student-driven institution-wide student representative structure through MIT’s internal approval processes, with buy-in from academic leadership, senior management and the student body
 Reviewed and reformed the Student Peer Mentoring scheme in response to new academic pressures, such as the introduction of Youth Guarantee students
 Conducted, analysed and reported on the first three annual MIT Student Satisfaction Surveys of service centres, building up a response rate of over 2,000 students

Investment Advisor

Tertiary Education Commission

Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Education Management industry

January 2008 – January 2009 (1 year 1 month) Wellington, New Zealand

Responsibilities
 Day-to-day relationship management with a portfolio of institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs), including fund payment inquiries, course approvals, investment plan engagement and general administrative inquiries.
 Regular performance and strategy monitoring of ITPs, using the Single Data Return (three-monthly performance statistics) over an extended period of time.
 Day-to-day management of a major ITP contestable fund, including submission for an eight-figure capital drawdown from Ministers of Finance and Tertiary Education.
 Support for Investment Managers, including strategic advice and monitoring of performance.

Achievements
 Coordinated two ITPs through one-year investment plan process, including regular investment plan engagement and negotiation.
 Coordinated three major contestable fund applications for multi-million-dollar operating and capital projects, as well as several smaller fund applications and assessments.

Postgraduate Research Assistant

Victoria University of Wellington

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

2006 – 2007 (1 year)

District Supervisor - Wellington Central

Statistics New Zealand

Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Information Services industry

December 2005 – May 2006 (6 months) Wellington Central

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Project managed the delivery and collection of Census forms in Central Wellington.
• Employed and trained 15 collectors, monitored and reported their progress, and provided logistical where needed.
• Effectively worked around ‘problem’ dwellings, such as non-private dwellings, apartment buildings, and rough-sleepers. This involved significant engagement and public awareness work with community groups such as the Wellington City Mission, Age Concern and property management organisations.
• Was part of a team of 18 District Supervisors in Wellington City. Assisted with the setup, day-to-day running, and closing of a temporary Census office.
• Some media and public relations work.

ACHIEVEMENTS
• Full enumeration of Central Wellington with a relatively low under-count (missed dwellings).
• Employed a strong team of young collectors who worked to a very high standard, despite the unusual challenges of Wellington Central’s eclectic population.
• Coordinated the first comprehensive enumeration of Wellington rough sleepers.
• Ran an effective local Census awareness campaign, including media and community organisations.

Student President, Executive Member

Victoria University of Wellington Students Association

Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry

January 2003 – December 2005 (3 years) Wellington, New Zealand

Representative of students at Victoria University, and head of a $2m organisation with 11 staff, and an executive of 10.

South Kaipara Men's and Family's Centre

Trustee
- April 2012 to Present
Student Job Search

Wellington Regional Chair
- January 2005 to December 2005

Graduate Diploma, Applied Statistics

Massey University
- Data Analysis
- Applied Linear Models

The domestic divide: Access to the Internet in New Zealand
- New Zealand Geographer
- 2011
Authors: Jeremy Greenbrook-Held, Philip S. Morrison

We use unit records of the 2006 census to show that access to the Internet in the home varies geographically in New Zealand primarily as a result of demographic and socio-economic differences among individuals. Of particular significance is the much lower rates of domestic access experienced by Māori and Pacific Island individuals even after controlling for differences in their age, gender, education, income, occupation and settlement type. While differences in Internet access by ethnicity has been noted before, it is the magnitude and persistence of this difference in New Zealand after controlling for correlated factors that renders this study unique. Our results have important implications in an education environment increasingly reliant on Web access, but they also raise questions about the extent of access to the Internet outside the home.
Accessing the Internet: Socio-Economic and Geographic Determinants
- unpublished Masters dissertation, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington
- 2007
Authors: Jeremy Greenbrook-Held

The rapid proliferation of the Internet has enabled people to access information and to communicate instantaneously with people all over the world, from almost anywhere, 24 hours a day. However, socioeconomic, ethnic, and geographic differences in rates of Internet access (known as the digital divide) persist despite increasing Internet penetration rates.

Considering New Zealand’s relatively high rate of Internet access, only a limited volume of local digital divide research exists. This study draws on the results of the 2001 and 2006 censuses to estimate the degree of influence that socioeconomic, ethnic and geographic factors have on access to the Internet in New Zealand. This study contributes to our geographical understanding of the digital age by showing empirically how apparent differentials in the geography of Internet access are actually due not to geographically based differences in the supply of Internet services but to the influence of socioeconomic and ethnic differences among households themselves.

Key words: Internet, digital divide, New Zealand, socioeconomic, geography, census, logit modelling.