(senior) analyst, employment relations

Background

District Health Boards New Zealand (DHBNZ) is the association of New Zealand’s 21 District Health Boards.

 

The organisation was established to be a forum for DHBs to collaborate on strategic collective activity at the national level aimed at building sector capacity and capability. DHBNZ is also the support agency that project manages the collective activity agreed by the DHBs.

The Role

This role is pivotal to the success of DHBNZ’s Employment Relations programme, as well as supporting other portfolios, programmes and projects as required.

 

The role provides support to Employment Relations staff by assessing and reporting on workforce information, risks and opportunities. The main areas of focus will initially be supporting collective bargaining by provision of costing information, and supporting project based analysis of sector terms and conditions of employment.

 

Major activities include establishing and maintaining templates for multi-employer collective agreements costing and ad-hoc one-off costing projects. The role also provides support to the Health Workforce Information Programme (HWIP) as required and will provide financial and management accounting advice to DHBNZ personnel as required for programmes and projects.

The Person

The person will hold a relevant tertiary qualification – ideally full member of the NZICA. Given the seniority of the role a significant level of experience in financial budgeting, forecasting and reporting is essential as is the ability to demonstrate experience/knowledge in:

• project management
• strategic development in health or the public sector
• consolidation of multi source data
• policy development, analysis and research methodologies, and of health sector structures and processes
• contributing to the development of an effective team
• contemporary health service management principles and practices; in particular employment relations
• Excel, at an advanced level.

Knowledge and experience of employment benefit costing and labour market comparison will be called upon regularly. Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and the resilience to work in high pressure environment are also necessary.

 

In return we offer a competitive remuneration package, flexible working arrangements, and the benefit of working with one of the best employment relations’ teams in the country. You will constantly be challenged and have the opportunity to grow your skill base to new levels.

 

Job description

 

 

Applications to:
Steve Aburn
Manager, Employment Relations
Steve.aburn@dhbnz.org.nz

 

DHBNZ
PO Box 5535
Wellington

Deadline for applications:
Wednesday 27 August 2008