Aporei Protection

Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā Nau mai, tono mai ki Hauora Māori Tūmatanui kia kumea te pae tawhiti hei pae tata, kia whaia te pae ora mō ngā whānau, mō ngā hapū, mō ngā iwi. E kōkiri
- **Flexible working supported to balance your mahi and your whānau and iwi commitments**:

- **Be part of the team that will transform how health protection services are delivered**:

- **Two-year Fixed-Term full time position**

Join Te Whatu Ora at a key time of change where you will meaningfully contribute to our kaupapa of creating an equitable, accessible, cohesive, and people and whānau-centred health system. This is mahi that will improve the health and well-being of everyone in Aotearoa, and we've got an opportunity for you to be part of it.

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

We have a two-year **fixed term** full-time opportunity available to join our Hauora Māori Tūmatanui team in the **Aporei Protection - Major Projects** role.

This role contributes to the Protection Directorate wharepuni as a Hauora Māori Tūmatanui leader within the Major Projects team supporting a strong partnership between both Directorates. The Major Projects team within the Protection Directorate will be leading a series of projects the aim to bring together and support health protection services across the new National Public Health Service. This will initially involve both establishing unifying technology and aligning our ways of working in partnership with our stakeholders to implement nationally planned, regionally delivered and locally tailored services.

As a Principal Advisor, the Aporei Protection within the Major Projects team, you will be the lead ensuring the team is embedding Te Tirirti o Waitangi across the protection major projects work programme. This will mean that you will be:

- Doing the doing as well as advising the wider team.
- Connecting with and advising our protection stakeholders
- Build, form and lead our Te Tiriti advisory group
- Embedding Tiriti Dynamic thinking and action within the protection major projects team.

**Hauora Māori Tūmatanui**:
There are significant expectations in the reforms, and in the kaupapa of the NPHS, that we will embed the principles of Te Tiriti and advance equity for iwi and Māori communities. The Hauora Māori Tūmatanui Directorate is the lead in supporting the NPHS to embed the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi; support of iwi and Māori communities to realise their well-being aspirations; rapidly expand and develop our Māori workforce; and grow and develop the capability of our non-Māori and non-Pacific workforce to provide a culturally safe service.

To succeed in these aims, Hauora Māori Tūmatanui works as a cross-functional team embedded in all NPHS Directorates and supports our kaimahi Māori through the Pā Tūwatwata model to keep our workstreams safe and to have a strong foundation of togetherness utilising mātauranga ā whānau, ā hapū, ā iwi, to build a Māori workforce that is valued, elevated, and can support the achievement of pae ora.

**Mōu | About you**

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- A relevant tertiary qualification, or equivalent experience (e.g. public health, epidemiology, informatics)
- Demonstrated experience of working within a Te Ao Māori environment and understanding Tikanga Māori, and/or substantial experience working within a bicultural context with diverse communities and/or organisations
- Leadership experience, including designing and managing a portfolio of work, and resources.
- 10-15 years specialised work experience typically supported with professional qualifications
- Demonstrates an ability to build constructive and effective relationships with stakeholders to build a sound understanding of their operational environment and context

**Ka kawea e koe | You will bring**:

- Competency with te ao Māori, tikanga, and te reo Māori or a commitment to starting your journey and taking ownership of your learning and growth.

**Ko te mahi e tika ana mō te ao hurihuri nei | Work that suits today's ever - changing world**

Te Whatu Ora supports flexible and hybrid working for our kaimahi. In roles that don't require an in-person element, we encourage you to ‘work from where you are.' We want our national teams to be made up of diverse people from across the motu, just like our health system.

**Tō mātou whakahaere ki te tika, te rerekētanga, me te whai wāhi mai |Our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion**

Our name, Te Whatu Ora, means ‘the weaving of wellness'. Whatu is the combining together of people, resources, organisations, thoughts and actions for the betterment and wellbeing of all. Whatu is also a direct reference to the pupil of the eye, and the vision required of the new entity and system.

At Te Whatu Ora we acknowledge and respect our people's diversity and spiritual needs, ensuring a safe workplace that is a whānau orientated and supportive environment. We are