Intelligence & Surveillance Specialist

**Opportunity within the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS)**:

- **Permanent role, Monday to Friday, based at Greenlane Clinic Centre**:
**Be part of Auckland Regional Public Health Service’s Public Health Intelligence Team and take on the role of Intelligence and Surveillance Specialist**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

Over the past 5 years public health has been front and centre through the response and management of disease outbreaks amongst numerous other public health related incidents. But public health is much more than just disease outbreaks as we seek to undertand and act on the determinants of health in order to protect and improve the health of our many communities.

Public health intelligence is front and centre of these efforts in delivering innovative products and solutions to enable public health action on everything from climate change to urban design, and health equity.

This role provides provides expertise to a multidisciplinary intelligence and analytics team to ensure not only high quality analytical approaches to a problem, but that the problem statements themselves are well designed. Bring your experiences, skills and can-do attitude and make a positive difference across the region.

In the Intelligence and Surveillance Specialist role, you will be responsible for:

- Interpreting and reframing organisational problem statements and issues to enable meaningful analytics based solutions
- Identifying how and where data analytics can be used to improve decision making in the context of the services’ programmes, workflows, and purpose
- Developing and maintaining data pipeline systems for time critical analytics
- Supporting the development and implementation of the surveillance strategic plan
- Supporting the planning, development and implementation of public health surveillance outputs
- Working closely with stakeholders throughout the service to identify opportunities to leverage data to drive business and health outcome improvements
- Supporting ARPHS’ vision and role model Te Toka Tumai values in all interactions

For further details, please refer to the position description **here**.

**Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills**
- Appropriate tertiary qualification with associated computational analytics
- Background knowledge of biostatistics, epidemiology, demography, health geography, or other applied sciences
- Basic ability to conduct data exploration, analysis and visualisation
- Ability to handle data in an ethnical, secure, and responsible manner
- Experience in the delivery of innovative analytics and solutions
- Excellent knowledge of NZ Public Health Sector
- 5+ years experience in data science or health analytics
- Excellent communication skills and understanding of communication strategies

**Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation**

We are Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland. We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Starship Children’s Hospital, located in central Auckland.

We are part of Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, the overarching organisation for New Zealand’s national health service. Te Whatu Ora leads the day-to-day running of the health system, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels.

We are committed to upholding Te Tiriti o Waitangi and providing culturally safe care. We value role modelling manaakitanga as demonstrated by Ngāti Whātua in the gifting of their whenua on which our hospitals stand. We aspire to having a workforce reflective of the communities we serve and achieving equitable outcomes for all.

Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) delivers public health across the Auckland region. ARPHS is a fully integrated public health unit delivering promotion, protection and screening programmes designed to improve the health and wellbeing of the populations of the Auckland region in partnership with mana whenua, striving always to reduce health inequalities, we work across three domains: Excellence in Core Delivery, Leadership and Advocacy and Future Focused.

**He aha ngā painga o tēnei mahi mōu | Why you will enjoy working here**

We recognise there is more to life than mahi | work, and we encourage and provide access to all our staff several services and benefits to support themselves whilst they are employed within Te Toka Tumai Auckland.

For more information on what we offer, please click here.

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply