System Design Manager, Addictions, Te Manawa Taki - Commissioning

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Contribute to transforming the future of health
• Flexible working supported to balance your work and lifestyle
• Based in our Te Manawa Taki region

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. 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 System Design Manager is a member of a life course team tasked with leading the system and service redesign within their life course and radically improve Māori Health and eliminate inequities.  The System Design Manager has strong problem solving and systems thinking skills, including change and influencing skills.

As a Systems Design Manager, you will hold the senior system design and implementation leadership in your life course team, across relevant Te Pae Tata actions. Whether in a national or regional role, you will work in a collaborative way with other system development colleagues to design and implement new systems of care that are equitable, efficient and improve Māori health equity. You will hold authentic and trusting relationships with Māori, senior sector leaders and health providers, clinicians, and the wider community to address key system and service design issues.

This role is based in the Te Manawa Taki Region made up of Waikato, Lakes, Bay of Plenty, Tairāwhiti and Taranaki. You will need to be based in the region. Your location can be discussed at interview stage.

Ngā pūkenga me ngā weako | Skills and experience

• Demonstrated experience in leading system and service design and implementation in the particular life course, including seeking lived experience and or whānau voice and aspirations.
• Can demonstrate system thinking and problem solving that delivers collaborative, equity-based solutions.
• Experience influencing highly skilled, high performing and engaged professional teams in a multi-faceted and demanding environment.
• Demonstrated experience in the development of high quality and timely strategies and initiatives across a large organisation.
• Demonstrated experience for developing, maintaining, and influencing relationships and partnerships across sectors and organisations including clinicians, health providers, and Māori and Pacific Peoples groups.
• Demonstrated ability to think conceptually and anticipate the impact of decisions on long-term outcomes, including financial outcomes, and develop/recommend responses in consultation with key stakeholders.
• 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  

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