• Full-time, Permanent position
• Salary $112,000 - $130,000 pa (based on work experience)
• Role is based in Greenlane Clinical Centre, Auckland

Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

Contribute your strategic relationship and team leadership skills to advance Māori & Pacific health equity. Starship Digital and Community Engagement service has an exciting opportunity for an experienced strategic relationships manager to help advance its ambitious work programme.

This is a newly created role that will lead strategic engagement with Māori and other community partners to actualise the Ririki Haumaru/Safekids Aotearoa strategic vision and work programme. The role will also manage relationships with key funders, and lead and manage the Community Engagement and Mobilisation team, a key responsibility of which is the ACC/Safekids Home Safety Programme, which is delivered by over 30 service provider partners.

Starship’s Digital and Community Engagement service is continually transforming and is dedicated to upholding and actualising Te Tiriti o Waitangi and championing Māori and Pacific Peoples’ health equity. The service supports community, policy and advocacy, and digital engagement across the breadth of Starship’s services, Te Toka Tumai, as well as Safekids Aotearoa, with a focus on haumarutanga and Pae Ora of mokopuna and whānau.

For further details regarding the role, please email the Poutokomanawa/Director on maretah@adhb.govt.nz or refer to the position description here.

Nga Pūkenga Motuhake | Important Skills

• Strategic relationships with mana whenua, iwi at governance and leadership levels
• Strategic leadership and change management experience
• Demonstrated experience using te ao Māori and mātauranga Māori to inform activities that drive equity
• Demonstrated experience in team management
• Providing trusted advice and leadership on mātauranga Māori and hauora
• Desired: Managing funder/contractual relationships and securing new investment

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.

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

Please submit your application via our website, with your experience and motivation to apply. To view details about our recruitment process, click here. For any other queries regarding the recruitment process, contact Anél Foord - Recruitment Consultant at anelfoord@adhb.govt.nz quoting ADHB21622.