New Dunedin Hospital Facility Readiness Project Manager

New Dunedin Hospital Facility Readiness Project Manager

• Dunedin Hospital,  Full-time (1.0 FTE) 40 hours a week
• Permanent Monday to Friday
• Competitive salary

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zealanders.

About the Role

This role will be a leader within the New Dunedin Hospital Programme Management Office team, supporting Southern’s Programme Director and New Dunedin Hospital colleagues in ensuring a successful opening and enduring operation of the Outpatient Building. This role presents an exciting opportunity for the successful applicant to play a pivotal role in the New Dunedin Hospital project.

This role will:

• Lead the “Facility Readiness” workstream of the New Dunedin Hospital (NDH) Outpatient Transition Programme. This workstream is critical for successful planning, migration, operational commissioning and “go live” of the Outpatient Building (OB).
• Development of a resource management plan for contractors and fixed term resources necessary to meet the Facility Workstream deliverables within defined budget.
• Once agreed, deliver the activities outlined in the resource management plan via recruitment and contract management. 
• Ensure allocated projects within the OB Transition Programme Facility Readiness workstream are effectively planned, sequenced and managed.
• Orientate and train resources employed/contracted to meet Facility Workstream deliverables.
• Facilitate and co-ordinate enabling functions, Facilities and Property, Infection Prevention and Control and Southern’s Simulation team contributions to the Facility Workstream deliverables.
• Work with the Programme Director, Deputy Programme Director, Transition Project Manager, Southern H&SS Leadership Team, Clinical Transformation Group (CTG) and Southern colleagues (Clinical Project Managers and others) to ensure Facility Readiness projects are planned, coordinated, reported and delivered in the Outpatient Transition Programme. This will include communications requirements.
• With support from the Deputy Programme Director, create a governance, reporting and monitoring structure appropriate for a workstream of this scale, risk and opportunity that aligns to Health NZ’s methodology and practices.

• Contribute to regular reporting to the Transition Programme Steering Committee, Group Director of Operations (Southern), Programme Director and Southern Leadership Team on the status of the Facility Readiness workstream and its key dependent activities. Reporting will include a summary of critical workstream risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits to a level of detail appropriate to ensure programme progress can be tracked by the Transition Programme Steering Committee.
• Work with NDH project and key service/clinical colleagues to ensure NDH workforce modelling and other service requirements involved in the Facility Readiness workstream are appropriately incorporated into the Outpatient Transition Programme.
• Be one of the key liaison people between the programme Clinical Transformation Group (CTG), Digital Programme and other Southern colleagues working on key NDH dependencies (e.g. Te Kāika Wellbeing Hub, Dunedin).

About the Team/Service/ Location

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora - Southern has the largest geographical coverage of all the New Zealand regions, providing services to 350,000 people in diverse communities. We take pride in all the services we provide, and our aim is to improve, promote and protect the health of our region. We believe that our dedicated and passionate staff are a significant driving force behind the achievement of these standards, and we need more like-minded people to help us continue providing for our community.

About you

Our successful candidate will have a Relevant Degree or Post Graduate qualification in Business/Project Management or significant demonstrable experience in a related field.

To succeed in this role, you will need to have:

• Significant project or programme management experience, preferably in capital projects within the public sector within large and complex organisations
• Excellent knowledge of good project governance, reporting, monitoring and assurance frameworks appropriate to a programme of this scale
• The ability to review large complex documents and distil the relevant information or key points and risks in a fast moving, dynamic environment
• A strong understanding of public sector capital planning, particularly Treasury’s Better Business Cases model.
• A sound understanding of financial management
• Excellent judgement, relationship building and management skills
• The ability to deliver under tight deadlines, both in individual and team-based scenarios
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to effectively manage and operate under pressure in an often-ambiguous environment  

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Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.  

How to Apply

To apply please click “apply now.”  All applications must be submitted through our online careers’ portal by 07 April 2025. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Mikayla Hamilton Mikayla.hamilton@tewhatuora.govt.nz

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.