Senior Local Area Manager, Wellington - Commissioning

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Contribute to transforming the future of health
• Flexible working supported to balance your workplace and lifestyle
• Based in Wellington & Hutt Valley

Join 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

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. We work in partnership with our Te Whatu Ora and Te Aka Whai Ora colleagues to shape system-wide public health services across the motu.

The Senior Local Area Manager is the local and generalist holder of provider relationships, tasked with ensuring outcomes that radically improve Māori Health and eliminate inequities are achieved across the network of services within their locality.  The Senior Local Area Manager is the budget holder for the localities they serve, within the parameters and delegations set across national and regional teams. They are responsible for establishing localities alongside Locality Development Advisors and developing authentic long-term relationships with IMPBs, health providers, wider social sector funders and providers, local government, and communities across their localities.  Their role is a path smoother for localities, helping to solve identified problems and issues through working with their Te Whatu Ora colleagues, Te Aka Whai Ora, and the wider social sector across their localities.

They are supported by the Regional Integration Team and Regional Service Improvement Team from a subject matter expertise, contract management and performance monitoring, quality improvement and risk management perspective.  They are responsible for leading the implementation of new services, integration programmes across HSS and primary and community care, as well as the networking of providers as a locality.

This role is based in Wellington (Capital & Coast Hutt Valley). 

Ngā pūkenga me ngā weako | Skills and experience

• You're an experienced Manager with extensive senior-level commissioning and community development experience gained over a decade or more.
• Demonstrated experience in system and service design and transformation change.
• Demonstrated experience in health service funding and procurement and provider oversight. Demonstrated experience in place-based planning and collective impact approaches.
• 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.
• Proven ability to persuade and influence.
• The ability to build and maintain strong internal and external relationships at a senior level.
• Experience navigating and operating in a regulated environment, experience working constructively across functions and track record of building and maintaining the trust of all stakeholders.

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  

We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of our lives, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter. We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities. 

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply. 

To view the position description and/or apply for the role, please click “APPLY NOW.”  For tracking and reporting purposes, all applications must be submitted through our online career portal.

Advertising closes 1 April, please contact Nicole Rickard on Nicole.rickard@tewhatuora.govt.nz if you have any queries.