Quality Improvement and Change Project Manager

3 days ago

New Zealand Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Full time NZ$100,000 - NZ$150,000 per year
  • All locations | Permanent Full-time
  • A rare chance to optimise national training programmes
  • You will be joining a team that sits at the centre of system transformation
  • Opportunities to grow professionally in a highly collaborative team

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is the country's largest employer, delivering universal public healthcare to 5 million New Zealanders.

We provide essential hospital, specialist, and community health services across 80+ locations — from large urban centres to rural towns and remote communities.

Our goal is to improve health outcomes for all New Zealanders by delivering equitable, accessible and innovative care.

About the Role

As a Quality Improvement and Change Project Manager, you'll manage many of the project support requirements of national training programmes that build quality improvement, innovation, and change capability across our workforce. Your days will weave between coordinating expert advisory groups, supporting multi-media resource development, and ensuring that every programme lands with clarity, consistency and heart.

You'll shape project plans, provide logistical support, guide timelines, steward evaluation, and help ensure each offering upholds the principles of consumer partnership, Te Tiriti obligations and health equity. You'll work alongside a dedicated QI and Change education and training team, external subject matter experts and internal leaders, helping turn collective expertise into accessible, relevant and impactful learning experiences.

About you

You operate confidently in complex systems and bring a disciplined, methodical approach to delivering high-quality support for education programmes. You understand how large-scale health systems function, how decisions ripple across teams, and how well-designed training can accelerate capability and equity at scale. You think in frameworks, plan with precision, and execute with consistency.

  • At least 5 years' experience in project management, and supporting an expert team of education in quality improvement, change, or related fields
  • Capability to lead complex multi-workstream programmes, track milestones, manage risks, and provide high-quality reporting
  • Strong communication and plain-language writing skills, able to turn technical material into clear, accessible training resources, briefs, and reports.
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship-building ability, with a track record of influencing and partnering across sectors, including Māori, Pacific, consumer, clinical and operational networks

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to Apply

To apply, please click "apply now." All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by 11:59PM Sunday, 30 November 2025. For further information, please contact Jenita Spencer on

Whilst Health New Zealand is undergoing change, affected kaimahi will be given preference and priority for this position.

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process before the closing date of this advert.

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