Tom Donnelly. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES
Donnelly will replace current assistant coach Geoff Parling, who will return to the UK following the end of the British and Irish Lions Tour.
Donnelly played 15 tests for the All Blacks between 2009 and 2010.
The 43-year-old spent the Super Rugby Pacific season with the Western Force, having moved to Australia after spending the previous two seasons as an assistant with the Highlanders in Dunedin.
He coached Otago from 2020 to 2024 and had three seasons as an assistant before that.
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