Terisa Moifo Tagicakibau
Summary
Forward-thinking team leader skilled at operating departments efficiently to meet goals. Successful background matching employees with roles for maximum performance. Proactive and hardworking individual focused on continuous operational improvement. Strong leader and problem-solver dedicated to streamlining operations to decrease costs and promote organizational efficiency. Uses independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level [Job Title] position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Mental Health Steering Group
- Te Pou
- Was appointed as the South Island representative to this national group Te Pou to participate in the formation of the strategic documents that birthed the Pacific mental health service called LeVa
- Today LeVa is a successful Pacific mental health provider that focuses on mental health, public health, leadership training and cultural competencies.
National
- Pacific Smoking Steering Group – Pacific Heartbeat
- Appointed to this steering group as the South Island representative to formulate the strategic documents that would steer and guide the new smoking cessation service – Tala Pasifika
- As the sole voice of the Pacific communities in the South Island, it is crucial that I provide a strong voice to inform the group of where we are as a community
- In the South Island, we are a smaller Pacific population and more than often, can be forgotten by our national counterparts
- Today Tala Pasifika is a national service that provides Pacific peoples with a mechanism to provide input and advice into policy development processes.
Practice Advisor
Pasifika Futures Limited
10.2020
- Advisory to the Pacific Partners (Etu Pasifika, Fale Pasifika
- Aoraki, Pacific Trust Otago, Pacific Island Advisory Charitable Trust, Nelson Tasman Community Trust and Marlborough Pacific Community Trust) in the South Island that implement the Whanau Ora programme
- Liaison between the knowledge team and the Pacific Partners regarding data collection, identifying gaps and ways to improve
- Relationship strengthening with the Pacific Partners and other stakeholders
- Relationship with Pacific peoples in the South Island especially in the regions where the Partners are based.
Operations Manager
Fale Pasifika o Aoraki Trust Society Inc
12.2021 - Current
- Responsibilities
- Provide inspired leadership for the organization
- Make important policy, planning, and strategy decisions
- Develop, implement, and review operational policies and procedures
- Assist HR with recruiting when necessary
- Help promote an organisational culture that encourages top performance and high morale.
Senibua, Frangipani
01.2012 - 01.2022
- Group
- I have helped set up a Pacific group at Community & Public Health
- Our Senibua group looks at Pacific health within the Canterbury area and raising awareness internally
- Pacific Cultural Awareness Workshop for health staff in Christchurch
- Led with one other the planning and design of a Pacific cultural awareness workshop for health professionals in Christchurch
- Pacific Recovery Strategic Plan Christchurch, Coordinated and drafted the Health section of the Pacific Recovery Strategic Plan and an instrumental member of the working group that drafted and developed the whole Plan
- After the Christchurch earthquakes in 2010, there was a need to bring together agencies and organizations to collaborate so that the needs of our Pacific communities could be identified and catered for
- A huge gap that has been identified from our Plan is the need for more services tailored to our Pacific youth
- I am currently working on raising this issue with government and non-government agencies.
Health Navigator
Etu Pasifika Limited
09.2019 - 09.2020
- Include
- Engaging with our Pacific families that have been referred through the clinic
- This includes building a relationship through talanoa to gauge their social needs
- In addition to this, I work with the families to support them by identifying their goals under the four domains of whanau ora and walking alongside them on their journey to achieve their goals
- Another aspect of the role includes being based in the Health clinic twice a week to cater for our enrolled patients that come to see the doctor and utilizing the opportunity to offer our whanau ora support to those that are in need
- As part of the Behavioral Team, my role includes gauging their behavioral needs and referring them to our specialists/clinicians.
Health Promoter
Canterbury District Health Board, Community & Public Health
03.2012 - 09.2018
- As the sole Pacific worker, I provide advice and support to the wider Public Health team regarding Pacific culture and engagement tips
- As a region, we do not have the luxury of a Pacific health workforce hence; the need is great in terms of providing Pacific advice
- Delivered cultural awareness sessions to the Communities and Protection Health Officers teams
- All Right
- Campaign
- Provide strategic advice on Pacific issues to the Canterbury District Health Board – Public Health arm
- This included my involvement with the Pacific Recovery Strategic Plan
- I provided advice to the Health Promotion Framework called Te Mahutonga Framework which rearranged the framework to suit Pacific communities
- Liaising with Pacific networks to educate and provide awareness on Pacific health issues
- I am constantly being called upon for advice by non-Pacific peoples on how to engage with Pacific communities
- Workforce development for our Pacific youth in terms of health careers
- Two months ago, I was part of a collective that organized a Careers Expo in which I coordinated the Health village
- The Health village included different health career paths that students were able to participate and get a feel for the career
- For example, students learning how to take blood pressure with a nurse supervising
- The village provided hands on environment where they could participate rather than just collecting information
- Use every opportunity that our Pacific communities provide to promote good health
- For example, I organized a health stall at the annual League game between Maori and Pacific Premiers where there were around two thousand Maori and Pacific people walking through the stall.
Chairperson
Niu Economic Enterprise Development Trust
12.2016 - 01.2017
- Include
- Overseeing the planning and implementation of Polyfest 2017
- Appointment of contractor
- Funding administration
- Chairing of board meetings
- ACHIEVEMENTS
- Shero
- Led a group of young Pacific women of different ages and backgrounds in the design of a workshop looking at specific issues
- These issues were identified by the group and they included social media in particular its overuse by young people, cyber bullying and sexual abuse
- Pacifically Speaking Resource
- Led a group of Pacific individuals to gather information through focus groups and then design a resource
- The well-being resource was designed for the Pacific family
- It is a set of cards that have four themes threaded throughout
- Themes are Faith, Family, Culture and Identity
- The cards are aimed at bringing families together to spend time with each other and also sharing stories of faith, culture and identity
- Leadership thru ME
- Designed, planned and led the well-being event through creative arts
- The evening brought Pacific couples together to enjoy the talents, artistic flavors of the Pacific through the fashion show and connecting with each other
- Out of the heart
- Taking the information from a piece of research that was done post-earthquake, designed a Pacific women’s leadership conference looking at three themes
- These were ‘Leadership, Spirituality and Culture and Sexual Health
- I ran this workshop over two years 2015 and 2016
- I am
- I led a group of young women designing a workshop that looked at young Pacific women and their identity
- The workshop covered ‘Leadership, Sexual Health and Spirituality
- I presented at the Melbourne World Congress Public Health Conference in April this year
- My presentation was on the All Right work that I have led in terms of Pacific well-being.
President
Canterbury Fiji Community
01.2012 - 01.2014
- Advisory and Advocacy role regarding the needs of our Fiji community on different Government agencies boards in Canterbury
- Relationship building with all groups within the Fiji community that includes the Rotuman community, Sangam Community, Church leaders, Kiribati leaders and Youth Leaders
- I have also established relationships with my counterparts in Auckland and Dunedin
- Implementation of the Strategic Plan, Providing leadership to the committee to encourage the utilization of their skills and knowledge in working with our community
- Ensuring that we have a functioning communications role in informing our Fiji community of relevant information and uniting them through our social events.
President
Canterbury Fiji Community Presidency
01.2012 - 01.2014
- For a second term for our growing Fiji population in Canterbury
- Instrumental in drafting our Strategic Plan and ensuring that we have a functional and professional team that works alongside our Fiji community in their quest for a better life in New Zealand
- In my first term, I oversaw the startup of our newsletters, Facebook page, texting tree and collaboration with other groups within our Fiji community
- We have a strong relationship with our Sangam Indian Association and Rotuman Society where we support each other in our respective events
- On a strategic level, our Fiji community was the only Pacific community that provided a submission to the review of the University of Canterbury Macmillan Brown Library
- Led a team from Canterbury to implement the launch of our Fijian Language Week in October 2013
- National Pacific Health Promotion Forum Interim Advisory Group
- Appointed to this strategic group to represent the South Island Pacific communities
- This Pacific advisory group provides strategic advice to the Health Promotion Agency which is a New Zealand Government department that leads and delivers innovative high quality and cost effective programmes that promote health well-being and healthy lifestyles
- As the sole voice of the Pacific communities in the South Island, I strongly highlighted the need for the group to recognize the differences of the regions and to use that as a platform to build up solutions working closely with the communities
- Chair Pacific Smoking Cessation Steering Group
- Provided oversight of this group and was instrumental in drafting the logic framework for the Smoking Cessation Service that is being implemented now by the biggest Pacific provider in the South Island – Pacific Trust Canterbury
- Healthy Eating Health Action (HEHA) Mentoring programme
- Solely developed the HEHA Mentoring programme for the Canterbury District Health Board
- This was in relation to the District Health Board’s lack of knowledge on Pacific communities
- I included compulsory governance training, project management, nutrition training and report writing for the community groups which included churches to undertake as part of their funding contracts
- Currently, HEHA funding has ceased, however, there are community groups that are still running activities.
Regional Advisor
Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs
08.2004 - 02.2012
- Include
- Relationship management – government agencies/Pacific communities/service providers/stakeholders
- Communications – provide advice on regional and national initiatives and activities which are designed to advance Pacific economic outcomes to Pacific peoples/monitor/evaluate and report on the effectiveness of policies and initiatives/participate in community events and meetings to identify key issues, analysis information and report findings to the Ministry
- Community engagement – engage with Pacific communities, facilitate community and state sector meetings/provide detailed reports on community activities and achievements
Education
Post Graduate Certificate - Development
Massey University
Certificate Pacific Nutrition - undefined
Auckland University
2012
Post Graduate Certificate - Public Health endorsed, Health Economics
University of Otago
2010
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
University of Canterbury
2004
Certificate Travel & Business Administration - undefined
Christchurch Polytechnic of Technology
1998
Skills
- Budgeting and Cost Control
- Employee Motivation
- Assignment Delegation
- Workflow Planning
- Project Management
- Staff Development
- Strategic Partnership
- Negotiation
- Cultural Awareness
- Interpersonal Communica
- Contract Administration
- Planning and Implementation
Timeline
Operations Manager
Fale Pasifika o Aoraki Trust Society Inc
12.2021 - Current
Practice Advisor
Pasifika Futures Limited
10.2020
Health Navigator
Etu Pasifika Limited
09.2019 - 09.2020
Chairperson
Niu Economic Enterprise Development Trust
12.2016 - 01.2017
Health Promoter
Canterbury District Health Board, Community & Public Health
03.2012 - 09.2018
Senibua, Frangipani
01.2012 - 01.2022
President
Canterbury Fiji Community
01.2012 - 01.2014
President
Canterbury Fiji Community Presidency
01.2012 - 01.2014
Regional Advisor
Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs
08.2004 - 02.2012
Mental Health Steering Group
National
Post Graduate Certificate - Development
Massey University
Certificate Pacific Nutrition - undefined
Auckland University
Post Graduate Certificate - Public Health endorsed, Health Economics
University of Otago
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science
University of Canterbury
Certificate Travel & Business Administration - undefined
Christchurch Polytechnic of Technology
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