A respected leader within the Pacific community, with capability to lead transformational change and act as a senior Pacific representative in the health and safety ecosystem?
Lead the alignment of Pacific responsiveness.
Enable and facilitate connections.
Embed Pacific perspectives at an organisational level.
Ko wai mātou? – Who are we? – About the company and history.
WorkSafe New Zealand, Mahi Haumaru Aotearoa, is the primary workplace health and safety regulator and their vision is that everyone who goes to work comes home healthy and safe. Alongside other regulators they lead New Zealand to achieve healthy and safe workplaces through engagement, education, and enforcement.
The External Strategy and Engagement Group connects the Government’s overarching Health and Safety at Work Strategy to strategies for Harm Prevention and Work-Related Health, as well as to WorkSafe’s business strategy and monitors performance of these strategies. The Group designs and commissions harm prevention intervention programmes and delivers these in partnership with other agencies and organisation’s working alongside and through, other WorkSafe teams.
Te āhua o Te Tūrunga – The nature of the position
This position leads the development and prominence of Pacific representation and leads Pacific integration for WorkSafe. The intent is to enable and facilitate the connection with respected leaders across the Pacific community, leading transformational change and acting as a senior Pacific representative in the health and safety ecosystem. Providing people and thought leadership, the National Manager – Pacific is the key influencer of meaningful change across the health and safety ‘ecosystem’.
Ensuring outcomes for Pacific workers improve, this will include influencing system settings, and crucially the proactive engagement with Pacific workers, businesses, and communities in order to identify those areas that are most important to reducing work harm. Furthermore, you will take pride embedding Pacific perspectives across the greater WorkSafe organisation as you seek to increase WorkSafe’s awareness, cultural capability and knowledge of Pacific workers and communities to strengthen awareness and Pacific responsiveness.
Leading programmes of work that address worker harm in other minority cultural groups as part of an integrated WorkSafe approach, you will be tasked with designing and delivering integrated programmes in priority areas to reduce work-related harm for Pacific people. Drawing on your skills in effectively building and nurturing relationships, you will actively partner with key stakeholders across sectors and Government, including at a Board and Senior Leadership level in relation to Pacific workers and businesses.
Leading a team, you will bring people on a journey with you as you collaborate with others to share knowledge and insights on Pacific peoples to enable them to complete detailed intervention design which is relevant to sectors and target populations. With the agility to flex and adjust your level of activity and focus as appropriate to WorkSafe priorities, you will complete regular accountability reporting on key performance measures.
Skilled in utilising research to aid strategic thinking, you will have a solid track record in providing in depth reports, presentations and learnings to a broad stakeholder group. The National Manager Pacific will operate across the organisation and wider, contributing a cross-cutting and multidisciplinary approach to shaping and delivering on WorkSafe’s priorities with respect to Pacific workers and businesses.
Utilising your understanding of whole of system approaches, you will actively contribute to cross-government opportunities, relationships and connections that will benefit the workgroups strategic intent. Moreover, you will ensure operational delivery, meeting milestones, delivering ongoing feedback, all drawing from your past knowledge and practice of programme co-design.
Ngā tino Pūkenga/Wheako – Essential skills/experiences for the role:
This position requires significant experience in a position where you have demonstrated relationship building with Pacific communities across both strategic and operational levels of engagement. A relevant tertiary qualification or alternatively extensive and comparable relevant experience is prerequisite to this application.
Experience , skills, and competencies that are necessary in this position are to include;
Recognised leadership in the Pacific, New Zealand community, and a level of comfort working with senior management and stakeholders across a wide range of industries and Government agencies.
Experience in developing and applying rigour around the design and delivery of high-quality programme design, development, and implementation.
A track record in the leadership of transformational change.
Be a confident and effective communicator who is experienced in collaborative development-building effective relationships via both operational and strategic pathways.
The skill set, and appropriate experience to act as a senior Pacific representative in the health and safety ecosystem.
Strong critical analysis and writing skills, and extensive experience applying these in senior position.
The ability to quickly establish and build strong, productive, and collaborative working relationships at senior levels.
Strong facilitation skills with a demonstrated ability to support collaborative working on complex issues at all levels and negotiate skillfully.
Able to demonstrate the proven ability to work collaboratively to develop and maintain effective relationships.
Be known as a leader who brings parties together, connecting, building, and unifying
Experience in the utilisation of research content and analytics.
Extensive people leadership and team management skills, experience providing sound leadership, mentoring and direction to staff.
Sound judgement, integrity, and discretion.
Ability to plan, prioritise and organise work effectively and efficiently to deliver quality outcomes.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Reporting to the GM External Strategy and Engagement, you will hold a wide-ranging portfolio, that will see you building key internal relationships with the Chief Executive, Ministers, Operational leads, and with Inspectorate staff, amongst others. Externally, you will go about building meaningful relationships with sector stakeholders, influencers in the community, unions, and senior Pasifika leaders and through your authentic personal style, have a level of comfort engaging, nurturing, and enabling relationships to thrive.
Remuneration is positioned to attract individuals with strong cultural competency, a demonstrated people leadership skill set and impetus to bring about change.
Te Tono – How to apply
To apply , or to enquire further in confidence contact Heather Walker for a confidential conversation now on (09) 632 1108 or email your up-dated CV and covering letter through to heather@manarecruitment.co.nz
Applications close: Monday 11th April 2022 at 5.00pm.
