Injury Prevention Partner at Accident Compensation Corporation, Wellington

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

• Develop solutions to address the reduction of sexual violence for Aotearoa
• Support the delivery of ACC's Strategy - Huakina Te Rā
• 11 month fixed term opportunity based in Wellington

Reducing injuries is a strategic priority for ACC and one of the many ways we help to improve lives every day. With ACC's Injury Prevention team, you'll be supporting people in Aotearoa to stay safe by minimising the incidence and impact of injury. We're looking for a highly motivated person who is ready to make a positive difference to ensure people can live quality, independent lives doing what they love.

As our Injury Prevention Partner, you will be responsible for creating innovative opportunities to incorporate primary prevention into cross sector partnerships and projects to prevent sexual violence across the life course. This role is responsible for providing leadership and advice on mobilising communities, workforces and diverse sectors to embed primary prevention and strengthen wellbeing. This means thinking broadly about the policies, systems, investment strategies such as our ACC Huakina Te Rā and Manini Tua - ACC Theory of Change and the environmental settings that support wellbeing.

You will embed prevention to ensure ACC has the relationships, insights and partnerships needed to influence positive change and deliver quality prevention outcomes across the Healthy Consensual Relationships and Oranga Whakapapa programme.

Key Accountabilities and Outcomes

• Plan and support the develop of programmes by identifying target groups based on the opportunity assessments provided by the intelligence function, and/or continuous improvement of existing programmes.
• Work with and lead, when required, multi-disciplined teams of subject matter experts and/or functional specialists (e.g. analytics, design) from within injury prevention, across ACC and external partners (Government Agencies) to create well rounded teams with a customer centred approach to understanding problems and potential solutions
• In accordance with the stakeholder management plan, maintain strong external relationships with suppliers, customers, stakeholders, industry associations, government representatives and market networks to identify emerging issues and developments.
• Write concise plans and budgets for approval using the repeatable design and delivery methodology.
• Lead the design and implementation of programmes or initiatives within a multi-disciplined team to ensure the successful delivery of measurable injury prevention (and/or wider) benefits. This includes successful communication and dissemination and provision of the narrative of Strategic Investments programme of work for internal staff and external providers.
• Monitor programmes and share learnings and outputs against mutually agreed KPIs and performance targets, including contracting for outcomes with partners.

To be successful you'll need:

• A comprehensive, strengths-based systems understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti), and the activities and investments that work together to reinforce the approach at community, sector and system levels.
• The ability to lead, think and deliver strategically at a systems level across all things Family and Sexual violence.
• Competence in writing reports, memos and business cases.
• An interest/experience in behaviour change, behavioural economics, public health, sector partnerships, allied health and/or injury prevention.
• A customer centric approach to your work.
• Cultural capability that informs your approach to meet the needs of Māori.
• Proven experience of engaging with a wide range of stakeholder groups and the ability to build effective working relationships.
• Excellent business writing, presentation and the ability to provide quality assurance to an executive level.

We are an established and supportive team that enjoy working together to each other's strengths. We celebrate success, enjoy good banter, and are ultimately united in the belief that we make a difference to peoples' lives.

Working at ACC:

We know that a diverse and inclusive team helps us meet the needs of our customers and we welcome candidates from every ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, age, and those with a disability or who have additional mental health needs. It is important to us that people are free to be themselves at work. Here are some ways we encourage that:

• Employee networks to support our colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
• The option to explore flexible working that suits your needs and ours.
• Development opportunities in te reo Māori me ngā tikanga.

The indicative salary range for the role is between $103k - $120k with appointment dependent on skills and experience. ACC also offers a generous 9% superannuation contribution.

For a detailed position description, please click here.

Please ensure you attach your cover letter telling us why you would be a great fit and what strengths you would bring to the role.

Applications close 19 September 2023, however we may move forward with screening and interviewing sooner so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. Applications can only be accepted when submitted through our ACC Careers Website. If you encounter accessibility issues when submitting your application, or if you would like further information about the role, please contact Nadine.o'donnell@acc.co.nz