Senior Relationship Manager

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

- **Assist in leading efforts nationally to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand, remove inequities, and improve women's health**

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 NPHS within Health New Zealand, 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, 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 the Prevention directorate as a** Senior Relationship Manager, National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP)**. This role will manage and lead the interface and relationship with key stakeholders, to ensure that the NCSP is being delivered, and any changes, which present opportunities or challenges to the programme, are well managed with the providers.

The Senior Relationship Manager is an important role providing strategic guidance and advice on a wide range of training, service delivery, funding and accountability activities, to support the NCSP and key stakeholders and ensuring their business needs are met.

**Mōu | About you**

You are someone with experience working in Primary Care and/or other community-based healthcare organisations. You have understanding of and experience in working with Māori and Pacific communities and have significant experience engaging and communicating with key stakeholders across all levels of the health sector. You're comfortable working in complex environments and developing and implementing changes across a programme of work. You're able to lead, coach and mentor staff and stakeholders, and to work with people at all levels within the health sector.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- Tertiary qualification in a health or relevant field and/or equivalent experience
- Experience in implementing Te Tiriti o Waitangi in action
- Experience in complex problem solving through to resolution
- Strong attention to detail and a sense of where detail needs to go with an ability to problem solve always looking for creative ways to improve
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain information in a way that is readily understood, with the ability to sell the product vision to stakeholders across all levels and build interpersonal relationships
- Significant experience implementing quality standards to be able to monitor and measure performance during programme change

**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