Programme Manager Breastscreen Aotearoa

**Make a positive impact in an organisation that makes a difference to people's lives**:

- **Lead the team that will transform how breast screening services are delivered, remove inequities and improve women's health.**

Join 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 have 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 to join the Prevention Directorate as the **Programme Manager, BreastScreen Aoteraroa. **This role is critical in enabling the delivery of the NPHS strategic agenda for Pae Ora (Healthy Futures).

**Mōu | About you**

The Programme Manager of BreastScreen Aotearoa provides leadership and programme management expertise within the Prevention Directorate, NPHS. In this role you will have oversight and workstream management across the national breast screening programme. You will have excellent interpersonal skills, whole-of-system thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive change to influence. You will have a sound understanding of, and experience working with, priority group populations.

You're able to build rapport and have capacity to manage relationships at all levels, including senior officials and health sector leaders. This role requires strong collaboration and the ability to form relationships that work in partnership to meet the programme's Te Tiriti partners, clinical experts, Pacific health partners, and the providers delivering the breast screening service. As manager of this programme team you will lead with empathy, kindness, and create a thriving, positive environment where people want to succeed.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- A relevant tertiary qualification or related experience, preferably within health.
- Demonstrated people leadership experience
- Complex programme and project management experience
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Māori and/or Pacific models of health including the ability to work credibly in all cultural contexts
- Knowledge and understanding of contemporary health service management principles and practices.
- Demonstrated experience of successfully building, maintaining and managing strong stakeholder relationships
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Demonstrated experience of health service design and commissioning (planning, procuring, contracting and evaluation)
- An understanding of population-based screening programmes

**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 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 Te Whatu Ora**

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply.