Strategic Engagement Manager

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

- **Flexible working supported to balance your work and lifestyle**:

- **Join our National Systems Design team and work from where you are**

Join Te Whatu Ora at a key time, where you will meaningfully contribute to our kaupapa of creating a more equitable, accessible, cohesive and people-centred health system. This mahi 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**

We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under te Tiriti o Waitangi | the Treaty of Waitangi. The government is committed to improving services and outcomes for Māori and strengthening the Crown's relationships with Māori.

We are responsible for designing community-based systems of care, agreeing health and wellbeing plans, executing those plans, and monitoring outcomes which then feed into the design process.

The Strategic Engagement Manager, Living and Ageing Well is a senior communications and engagement lead working with the national Living and Ageing Well teams. They will operate in an autonomous way, supporting both teams with their strategic engagement needs including developing, leading, and implementing a strategic engagement approach for both teams. The role has an interface with the Minister's office as well as the People & Communications Teams, Office of the Chief Executive, and external stakeholders. This is a senior autonomous role, dealing with both strategic and operational engagement issues related to living and apeing well. The work is fast paced / high volume requiring someone with an ability to juggle multiple competing priorities and make critical decisions under pressure.

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā weako | Skills and experience**
- Significant experience in strategic engagement to ensure delivery of work on time, and within budget.
- Strong political nous and broad experience and knowledge of the Machinery of Government.
- Broad experience of the health sector.
- Demonstrated experience in the development of high quality and timely stakeholder engagement strategies and initiatives across a large organisation.
- Experience and knowledge of the machinery of Government.
- Demonstrated experience at a leadership level for developing, maintaining, and influencing relationships and partnerships across sectors and organisations including with Māori and Pacific Peoples and groups.
- The ability to compellingly communicate complex information and ideas in both oral and written communication to a range of audiences including senior management, Board and Ministers.

**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, which will touch the lives of everyone in Aotearoa for generations.

Our name, Te Whatu Ora, means ‘the weaving of wellness'. Whatu is the combining 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 improved 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.