Senior Relationship Manager

**Contribute to transforming the future of health**:

- **Contribute to making a positive impact in an organisation that makes a difference to people's lives**

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, Prevention, 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 Directorate as a **Senior Relationship Manager, National Bowel Screening Programme. **This role will manage and lead the interface and relationship with key stakeholders at a national level, to ensure that the NBSP is being delivered, and any changes which present opportunities or challenges to the programme are well managed.

The Senior Relationship Manager is an important role providing strategic guidance and advice on a wide range of service delivery, funding and accountability activities, prioritising and evaluating work generated by districts teams to support the National Bowel Screening Programme (NBSP).

**Mōu | About you**

You have experience in relationship management and service implementation/change preferably within a health sector organisation. You have significant experience engaging and communicating with key stakeholders across all levels of the health sector. You have proven experience implementing quality standards to be able to monitor and measure performance.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- Tertiary qualification in a health or relevant field and/or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of managing Districts /PHOs, Primary care and other health sector providers
- Understanding of how public sector processes work, including funding, procurement, and reporting
- Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent relationship management and interpersonal skills
- Experience working in a strategic and agile manner
- Understanding of and experience in working with Māori and Pacific communities
- Significant experience managing and influencing key stakeholders' expectations across all levels of an organisation

**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