Advisor Knowledge

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 wellbeing 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 Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora, works towards Pae Ora (healthy futures) for all by engaging with the wider determinants that impact people's health, focusing on wellbeing, health promotion, 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.

The Intelligence directorate is a new structure, a central population and public health operational Intelligence team that is regionally networked and collaborative across organisations and agencies. The establishment of the Intelligence directorate in NPHS gives us the opportunity to review our products and processes to ensure we are honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi. In our work, we provide advice and deliver products that are used to inform evidence-based decision-making across NPHS. Our data and products need to be informative and interpretable; they also need to reflect the voices and stories of our communities.

We have two permanent, full-time opportunities available to join our Intelligence directorate as an **Advisor Knowledge**. These roles will see you using your skills and expertise to provide advice and develop products as part of our Knowledge team within the Evidence group of the NPHS Intelligence directorate. You will use a variety of approaches and tools to analyse data/information from different sources to make complex health and wellbeing information more easily understood, contributing to insights that inform decision-making.

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is on a journey to build a national Intelligence capability that will influence and support the health of all New Zealanders, so you will thrive on responsibility to being forward thinking and nimble to support that growth.

**Mōu | About you**

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako | Skills and experience**
- Relevant tertiary qualification or 1-2 years of comparable work experience
- Proven experience using qualitative and/or quantitative research, evaluation and analysis techniques, practices and principles
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and a demonstrated ability to write clear, meaningful outputs in different formats for different audiences
- Experience in using a variety of relevant analytical, project management and information synthesis approaches and tools such as R and/or NVivo, PowerBI
- Familiarity with mātauranga Māori and some knowledge of Pacific knowledge systems is desirable
- Familiarity with health, public health or similar is desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of research and analysis principles related to indigenous populations

**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.

**Nau mai, uru mai | Come and join us**

When you join us, you become part of transforming the health system. This is a once in a life-time change, that will touch the lives of everyone in Aotearoa, and future generations.

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.

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 mātou whakahaere ki te tika, te rerekētanga, me te whai wāhi mai | Our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion**

**Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply