Strategic Business Partner Māori & Equity

ACC New Zealand; Wellington; Remote; NZD 138,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

ACC New Zealand is seeking a Strategic Business Partner Māori & Equity to join the Māori and Equity Outcomes team. You will wrestle inequities and work with colleagues to turn evidence into practical action that improves outcomes for Māori and disabled communities and others facing barriers to access ACC services.

You’ll design practical tools and approaches from strategic guidance, build trusted relationships across the organisation, and help embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi commitments into policies

Qualifications

• Strong capability to translate evidence and insights into practical solutions.
• Experience with Pacific, Asian and/or disabled communities is preferred.
• Ability to partner across a broad portfolio and influence senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Turn strategic guidance into practical tools and approaches.
• Build trusted relationships across ACC to embed equity in policies and design.
• Contribute to keeping Kiwis safe at work, at home and everywhere in between.

Skills

Solution design

Data-driven

Stakeholder management

Te Tiriti obligations

Job description

• Design practical solutions that improve equity and access
• Partner across ACC on a broad range of work
• Bring insight into Pacific, Asian and/or disabled communities

Permanent | Flexible location across Aotearoa

About us | Mō mātou ACC is a trusted and high‑performing organisation, providing care, supporting recovery and promoting injury prevention, now and into the future.

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About the role | Mō te tūranga mahi

As Strategic Business Partner Māori & Equity, you'll be part of ACC's Māori and Equity Outcomes team, working to tackle inequities and improve outcomes for Māori and communities who experience barriers to accessing ACC's services. You'll work alongside experienced advisors and specialists, partnering across the organisation to turn evidence and insight into practical action and lasting change.

This is more than an advisory role. You'll work from strategic guidance through to designing practical solutions, tools and approaches that teams can put into action. Across a broad and varied portfolio, you'll build trusted relationships and help embed Te Tiriti o Waitangi commitments and equity considerations into policies, processes, programmes and service design. Your mahi will contribute to keeping Kiwis safe at work, at home, and everywhere in between.

The appointing salary for this role is $138,301 to $178,978 based on experience. ACC offers a comprehensive benefits package which at present includes an advantageous superannuation scheme (9% contribution) with features like no mandatory employee contribution, optional life and income protection insurance.

About you | Mōu

You will bring:

• Strong solution design capability, with experience taking complex problems, evidence, insights or strategic direction and turning them into practical solutions that can be implemented.
• Lived and/or professional experience that has built a strong understanding of Pacific, Asian and/or disabled communities, including different perspectives and barriers to access.
• Experience partnering across a broad portfolio of work, building trusted relationships and understanding the needs of different parts of a large or complex organisation.
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to move beyond providing advice to designing practical, outcome-focused solutions.
• The ability to use data, evidence and community insights to understand problems, identify opportunities and shape equitable responses.
• Strong relationship management, communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to provide constructive challenge and work effectively with senior leaders and diverse teams.
• An enterprise and whole-system perspective, with the curiosity and adaptability to work across a varied range of projects and subject areas.
• Experience applying Te Tiriti o Waitangi and equity considerations to organisational policies, systems, processes, programmes and/or service design.
• You must hold New Zealand work rights at the time of application.

Working at ACC | Mō ACC

At ACC, we embrace the rich tapestry of Aotearoa New Zealand's cultures and are dedicated to providing equitable opportunities. We know that a diverse and inclusive team helps us meet the needs of our customers, and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, age, and those with diverse abilities. It's 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.