DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
CANDIDATE INFORMATION PACK
STREAMLINERS
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Executive Summary
THE ORGANISATION
Streamliners focuses on the health, social care, and education sectors. We have developed a platform of content, standards, processes, methods, and software that enable us to deliver services of value to our customers, at scale, while supporting necessary local variation. We enable our customers to collaborate through networks such as the well-established HealthPathways network.
Streamliners employs over 160 staff and contractors to develop and deliver its services. The majority are based in Christchurch New Zealand, with others in Australia, United Kingdom and Canada. We are proud of our special partnerships with Yma, our delivery partner in Wales, and the internationally recognized Canterbury integrated health and social care system.
Our Purpose:
To improve the health and wellbeing of people around the world by enabling:
- community - collaborating globally for local impact
- conversations - agreeing about what will work around here
- clarity - offering clear guidance at the point of care
Our organisational purpose underlies our vision and strategy for the HealthPathways network.
This vision also underpins our other key products Hospital HealthPathways and Stronger Schools.
Hospital HealthPathways provides secondary care clinicians with access to a suite of locally agreed pathways of care within the hospital environment.
Stronger Schools is an innovative online platform that contains pathways to help school staff recognise and respond to the wellbeing needs of children and provides strengths-based, early-intervention strategies.
Our Culture:
At Streamliners, our culture is built on respect, confidence, effective communication, and personal growth. We honor the expertise and passions of our colleagues and clients, ensuring that everyone's needs and priorities are valued. Our confidence in our high standards drives us to deliver exceptional products and services. Through clear communication and partnerships, we meet and exceed customer expectations, providing value-for-money services.
Vision for the HealthPathways Network (5-10 Years)
Streamliners’ vision is that becoming a member of the HealthPathways global network is the most valuable investment that health systems can make to improve the health and well-being of their population.
Streamliners will work in partnership with the global HealthPathways network to develop pathways that:
- Save time for clinicians and patients.
- Get the latest evidence and policy into practice at scale.
- Support health equity by enabling necessary local variation of care and reducing unwarranted variation.
- Enable best use of the health system workforce and resources.
We will continuously improve the value of community membership by:
- Facilitating greater sharing of pathways, innovative models of care, and member success strategies.
- Creating opportunities to integrate HealthPathways into clinical workflows, education programmes, and system change initiatives.
- Increasing the effectiveness of our processes and tools.
To achieve our vision, we need to partner with the HealthPathways network to respond to these ten ongoing trends in health care:
- 1.Multi-morbidity - Rising prevalence of chronic conditions and multi-morbidity
- 2.Health equity - Growing priority of health equity and cultural safety, requiring greater cross-sector collaboration to address the social determinants of health
- 3.Cost pressure - Increasing cost pressures on health and social care systems
- 4.Workforce pressure - Pressure on workforce capability and capacity driving increased importance of allied health, non-regulated health workers, and care navigators
- 5.Self-management - Increasing importance of patient and whanau self-management
- 6.Changing role of general practice - Corporatisation of general practice and reducing role of general practice as care coordinator
- 7.Digitisation - Continuing digitisation of health and expectations of seamlessly integrated clinical IT workflows
- 8.Remote care - Increasing delivery of remote care (telehealth)
- 9.Personalised care - Personalised (precision) health care (big data, genomics, AI, wearable medical devices, etc.)
- 10.AI - AI-supported care delivery
THE OPPORTUNITY
This role presents a unique opportunity to expand and grow the success of HealthPathways in Australia. The Director of Strategic Partnerships will champion HealthPathways as a key enabler in healthcare transformation, collaborate with health executives and lead innovative initiatives to enhance health system efficiency and equity.
This role also offers an exciting opportunity to introduce Stronger Schools into the Australian education sector. As we currently have no presence in Australia with this product, the role will be instrumental in initiating relationships and paving the way for us to bring Stronger Schools to the Australian education sector.
THE CANDIDATE
The ideal candidate is a senior health system executive with a deep passion for improving healthcare integration and patient outcomes. They will have extensive experience in the Australian health and social care sector, proven success in system and service improvements, and a strong network across the Australian healthcare system.
Essential skills include strategic leadership, relationship management, commercial acumen, influencing and expertise in health system prioritization frameworks.
For a confidential discussion, please get in touch with:
Rhodie Miller, HardyGroup Principal Search Consultant
M. +61 0422 816 557
HOW TO APPLY
The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 7 May 2025. The reference number to include in your application is H25_5048
Role Specification
The Director of Strategic Partnerships Australia ensures that Streamliners maintains long term, commercially viable partnerships with government and local health and social care system funders and policy makers, and aligned organisations ensuring retention and growth of membership.
Strategy and Planning:
- Contribute to the Strategic Partnerships global approach, tools and plans to ensure effective and efficient service delivery that balances consistency with individual health system needs.
- Develop and maintain key stakeholder maps for each of the government and local health and social care system funders and policy makers in the specific regions this role is responsible for.
- Develop annual plans for achieving Streamliners objectives to sustain and grow the HealthPathways Community including:
- Identifying and building partnerships with aligned organisations such as policy influencers, research and evaluation partners and health tech companies.
- Presentation and attendance at aligned conferences, events and trade fairs.
Partnerships:
- Using the developed and agreed methods and tools, deliver bespoke in-person engagement that:
- Matches the needs of each member, and of identified stakeholders from government and local health and social care systems and aligned organisations.
- Is both proactive and planned, as well as responsive to requests or emerging issues.
- Strategically aligns with our purpose and their objectives, including policy and evidence into practice, delivering visibility of variation.
- Demonstrates understanding of the opportunities and challenges of their health and social care system and how we can support these.
- Identifies how HealthPathways will achieve success and optimise value for their health system, including integration, evaluation and efficiency.
- Enables the establishment and delivery of cohesive programmes of work for members.
- Using the agreed channels, regularly publishes content that establishes and sustains credibility as a thought leader.
- Collaborates on joint initiatives with our partners, ensuring the right people (both internal and external) are identified and engaged to participate effectively and deliver the agreed outcome.
Execution and Reporting
- Engagements are results focused, expectations are clear, and a consensus is understood and agreed at the conclusion of each resulting in a positive, sustained relationship.
- Outcomes of engagements and the status of relationships contribute to strategy refinement and are shared with operational teams.
Enabling and oversight or related Streamliners activities
- Maintain awareness of activities and issues involving other functions of Streamliners, in the specific state or country jurisdictions (regions) this role is responsible for.
- Ensure other functions of Streamliners are aware of the status of plans and issues (to the degree that’s appropriate).
- Where appropriate, take action to align with and support the activities of other functions of Streamliners.
Company Culture:
- Support a culture of cooperation, continuous learning, and improvement, and reflect and protect our company values.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of a positive Streamliners culture.
- Encourage and support the development of cultural competency.
- Follow all policies and procedures as set out in the Streamliners individual employment agreement and Streamliners knowledge bases.
- Comply with the information security policies and procedures to safeguard Streamliner’s information and any other agreed standard certification regulations.
This role is based in Australia and will suit a senior health system executive with the following passion, experience and skills:
- 1.A passion for improving the integration of health and social care systems for better patient outcomes and more effective use of the health and social care dollar.
- 2.Proven experience working in teams in the Australian health and social care sector with demonstrable system improvements and integrations achieved in that time.
- 3.Proven experience working in or around Australian national or state departments of health on system and service improvements.
- 4.Exceptional skills for building and maintaining highly trusted, influential relationships at senior executive / clinician level including an existing network within the identified jurisdiction.
- 5.Strong commercial acumen including experience driving organisational growth and revenue.
- 6.The ability to maintain focus and successfully lead others to implement agreed plans.
- 7.Exceptional interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- 8.Strong project and time management, multitasking, and decision-making skills.
- 9.Systems thinking including fluency in, and practical experience with, health system prioritisation frameworks and techniques.
- 10.Excellent written and verbal communication skills including public speaking.
- 11.An effective and flexible collaborator.
- 12.An eye for identifying new opportunities, and creating innovative solutions
The incumbent must have a bachelor’s degree (or higher qualification) in a business related, health or social care field, or equivalent experience in one or more of these fields is also acceptable.
The Director of Strategic Partnerships Australia will report directly into the Vice President Asia Pacific.
- Annual Budget: $
- Staffing: Global team of 160+
- Direct Reports: No direct reports
Please discuss with the Principal Search Consultant.
Major challenges and opportunities currently associated with the role include:
- Growing the business in Australia, leveraging Streamliner’s success in markets such as Wales and New Zealand.
- Positioning HealthPathways as a health system enabler and partnering with our clients to make the most of its capabilities to maximise its impact.
- Opportunities for professional growth and leading innovative projects.
- Working with a team of people committed to driving innovation, health equity and efficiencies in the healthcare system on a global scale.
Service Location: Service Location: This role is based in Australia.
Specific state or local jurisdictions (regions) this role is responsible for may vary over time, and will be agreed between the individual and their manager.
The closing date for applications is Wednesday, 7 May 2025
The reference number to include in your application is H25_5048
Note: Please use the online platform to submit your application. It will not be accepted via email.
If you require assistance in submitting your application online, please get in touch with Executive Search Coordinator, Natasha Tirado: M: +61 (0)468 301 310 / E: [email protected]
Your application must include:
- 1.Cover letter addressed to the Principal Consultant;
- 2.A written response addressing the key selection criteria; and
- 3.An up to date copy of your Curriculum Vitae.
It Is standard practice for HardyGroup to acknowledge receipt of your application no later than the next business day. We request that if you do not receive the acknowledgement, you contact the search coordinator listed above as soon as possible after the 24-hour business period and arrange to resend your application if necessary.
For a confidential discussion, please contact:
Rhodie Miller
HardyGroup Principal Consultant
M. +61 (0)422 816 557
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