Healthy Active Learning Advisor
We're looking for a Healthy Active Learning Advisor to join our team and support West Auckland schools to create more active, healthy and inclusive environments for tamariki. A key focus of the role is ensuring children and young people with disabilities have equitable opportunities to participate, belong and thrive through physical activity.
Purpose
The Healthy Active Learning Advisor
Delivers the Healthy Active Learning initiative into nominated West Auckland schools.
Develops and maintains strong, meaningful relationships with school principals, senior leaders and teachers to support schools to:
Better plan and implement the Health and Physical Education (HPE) and Hauora curriculum.
Identify and develop opportunities for quality physical activity experiences for tamariki (in school and in the community).
Advise on how to establish healthy behaviours and environments through supporting the adoption and implementation of healthy food and water-only policies.
Contributes to the delivery of outcomes across the organisation that aligns to better outcomes for tamariki and rangatahi, in alignment with the Impact Strategy and the regional Korikori plan
Specific duties and responsibilities
Te Tiriti o Waitangi:
Commit to personal and professional development to grow confidence and competence in the enactment of Te Tiriti o Waitangi as a responsible treaty partner.
Champion, enable and support our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Commit to ensuring Te Tiriti principles are considered and embedded in project strategy, planning and activities as appropriate.
Support an environment of psychological and cultural safety to support commitment to Te Tiriti of Waitangi.
Leadership, People and Culture, Tools and Processes:
Ensure adherence to all policies and processes, including Health and Safety
Ensure effective and clear communications are shared (dissemination and escalation) within the organisation that prioritises shared understanding.
Serve as an effective role model for colleagues, being visible, upholding organisational values and proactively contributing to a positive workplace culture.
Healthy Active Learning Implementation:
Develop and nurture regional and local partnerships, particularly relationships with selected primary and intermediate schools.
Engage and work with the Boards of Trustees, principals and senior leadership teams of the selected primary and intermediate schools to connect Healthy Active Learning to schools' values, achievement challenges and strategic educational outcomes.
Ensure the philosophies and principles underpinning Healthy Active Learning are applied, including Sport New Zealand's insights, physical literacy and locally-led approaches.
Provide relevant and up to date HPE curriculum knowledge as well as planning, teaching and assessment strategies that support students' engagement and achievement.
Utilise and deploy HPE resources available when and where appropriate to support quality planning and delivery.
Maintain a good working relationship with the Auckland Regional Public Health Unit Healthy Active Learning health promoter, and seek advice from, and link the health promoters with their schools where there are specific nutrition/food questions or issues that require nutrition expertise.
Work with the senior leaders of selected primary and intermediate schools to integrate healthy eating and water-only messages into HPE teaching where appropriate.
Understand and promote the value of physical activity for the holistic wellbeing of tamariki.
Support schools to identify how to enhance and support school teachers' and students' wellbeing through physical activity.
Ensure all decisions and behaviours are inclusive and embrace diversity across the wider school and community, through a commitment to social justice, equity and equality.
Mitigate and openly communicate any possible risks or incidents that have the potential to bring RSTs, Sport New Zealand and/or invested partners into disrepute.
Monitoring and Evaluation - support the development of effective monitoring and evaluation methods that demonstrates the impact that the Healthy Active Learning initiative makes.
Communication - maintain effective communications between all parties.
Reporting & Accountabilities:
Have an advanced understanding of key appropriate investment contracts, specifically those that are aligned to Health, including outcomes, and key milestones.
Contribute to the collation, design and delivery of accountability reporting.
Effectively raise any project delivery risks to SSIT / ELT at the earliest possible time for review and solution
Responsible for ensuring projects and initiatives are planned and executed in line with delegated authorities
Skills, experience & education
Personal Qualities:
Our workforce is courageous, innovative and creative, and must exhibit the following mindsets and qualities:
People-focused: Empathetic and supportive, act with integrity in all that you do. A personal commitment to social change and collaborate in positive and meaningful ways.
Action-oriented: Curious, proactive and takes initiative; seizes opportunities and acts upon them; resourceful and learns by doing; takes responsibilities for own actions.
Adaptive: Flexible and agile; open to new ideas; accepts changed priorities without undue discomfort; has an experimental mindset and recognises the merits of different options and acts accordingly.
Open and Courageous: Seek diverse perspectives and value difference, comfortable in ambiguity, possess a growth mindset and courageous in actions.
Reflective and Strategic: Can see the bigger picture through a bird’s eye view and is able to respond in a strategic manner, critically reflective and can adapt activities to suit.
Culturally responsive: Aware of the important place of indigenous leadership, strengthening understanding and, where applicable, relationships with mana whenua, and working within a bi-cultural context. Understands Māori, Pasifika and other community priorities and needs; is comfortable working with diverse communities and knows when to seek support.
Excellent relationship building skills with proven ability to form and nurture successful relationships.
Excellent organisational, time management and people skills.
Open to giving and receiving constructive feedback, including confidence and competence to have courageous conversations
A teaching qualification would be an advantage but is not essential.
Qualifications and experience:
A qualification in teaching, with NZ teaching experience is an advantage but not essential.
Experience working with schools senior leaders, and comfortability in asking challenging questions and having critical conversations with school leaders, influencing attitudes, behaviours and processes.
Experience in designing and facilitating professional learning and development opportunities.
Knowledge and understanding of
The operating models in primary and intermediate schools.
The New Zealand Curriculum and/or Te Marautanga o Aotearoa
The Health and Physical Education Curriculum with practical delivery experience.
How the sport and education sectors interact to deliver PE, sport, active recreation and play opportunities for tamariki.
How the systems, structures and operating models that underpin the education, sport, active recreation and play sectors across Aotearoa.
The broader contextual factors (social determinants) impact on access, opportunities and decisions that tamariki make regarding their own wellbeing
Have the ability to interrogate existing systems and structures, challenge mental models and perceptions, and influence behaviours.
Have exceptional relationship-building skills, including high emotional and social intelligence.
Thorough knowledge and understanding of effective pedagogical strategies, in particular, culturally responsive and active pedagogies.
Have the ability to be a critical practitioner, by applying an inquiry approach and utilising data to inform and guide practice, evaluate the effectiveness and understand impact.
Experience in planning, managing, and prioritising multiple and competing tasks and projects to meet deadlines and produce quality results.
A high level of verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and communicate effectively to a wide range of stakeholders and audiences.
Holder of a New Zealand Driving Licence
Personal values that are consistent with the Tuia Waitākere philosophy, which are:
It Takes A Village
Feeling Good (Inside and Out)
Placed At The Heart
Shifting Dials
General duties
Be punctual and work the hours and times specified.
Prioritise workload to ensure work of the greatest importance to the business is undertaken with urgency and to a high standard.
Support and help develop a positive workplace culture.
Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication skills.
Responsibly manage all business resources within accountability levels.
Undertake all duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description and all other duties as required by the business.
Comply with all employment obligations.
Promptly undertake to complete all reasonable and lawful instructions and directions given.
Serve the business in good faith, promoting and protecting the business's best interests.
During work time, and such other times as may be reasonably required, dedicate all effort to the execution and fulfillment of the duties, responsibilities, obligations, and instructions related to employment.
Demonstrate through own actions a commitment to Health and Safety at work when undertaking work or observing others in the workplace.
Email CV to: [email protected]
**Job will remain live until we have the right candidate, with rolling interviews
** Start date asap
** For more information please visit: www.tuiawaitakere.org.nz/about-us/work-with-us