Senior Portfolio Manager

**Contribute to transforming the future of health in a rewarding role focused on making a difference and leading change**:

- **Enjoy flexible working benefits, this role can be done from anywhere around Aotearoa**

Join Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora at a key time of change where you will meaningfully contribute to our kaupapa of creating a more equitable, accessible, cohesive, and people-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**

The National Public Health Service (NPHS) within Te Whatu Ora, work towards Pae Ora (healthy futures) for all by engaging with the wider determinants that impact people's health, focusing on oranga/wellbeing, prevention, protection, and population-level intervention. We are connected across boundaries to deliver public health services that are nationally planned, regionally delivered and locally tailored.

We have a permanent, full-time opportunity available to join our Prevention team as a **Senior Portfolio Manager **within **BreastScreen Aotearoa - Prevention**. The key responsibility for this role is to provide advice to support, maintain and improve the delivery of high quality work programmes within the BreastScreen Aotearoa programme.

BreastScreen Aotearoa (BSA) is Aotearoa New Zealand's free national breast screening programme for women aged between 45 and 69. The aim of the BSA programme is to reduce morbidity and mortality from breast cancer by the early identification and treatment of the disease. BSA is part of the National Screening Unit (NSU), which is the central agency responsible for providing operational and clinical leadership for organised national cancer, antenatal and newborn screening programmes. This role offers you the chance to gain exposure to these areas, as well as the wider Prevention Directorate including immunisation.

**Mōu | About you**

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- Relevant tertiary qualification at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level e.g public policy, health
- Able to work closely and form relationships with screening providers nationally to support them in the delivery of services
- Effective in leading multiple workstreams with focus and drive whilst maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships
- Provide expert advice to improve the quality of delivery of our programmes whilst providing mentorship and support of the wider team
- Be open to new ideas and create a culture where individuals at all levels bring their ideas on how to ‘do it better' to the table
- Identify opportunities to collaborate across the wider Prevention Directorate to deliver cohesive service improvement aligned with our strategic direction

**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**

Health New Zealand 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 Health New Zealand 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 working towards a system that better meets the complex demands of a growing population, addresses the persistent inequalities experienced by Māori and ensures greater access, experience, and outcomes for those traditionally not well served by the system - Māori, Pacific, and Disabled People.

**Tō tūranga i roto i Te Whatu Ora | Your place in Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora**

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply