• Multiple Full time Fixed Term Positions
  
• 38 hours per week

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Strategy, Planning and Performance team is responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of the Women’s Strategic Service Plan 2035, Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and the Organisational (annual) Plan. We report on these various strategies and plans to demonstrate progress toward our vision and purpose. The team also undertakes planning and provides support for teams and projects across the Women’s. The team includes a number of in-house Project Managers who work to support the planning and implementation of significant organisational projects, including service model redesign projects.

Your contribution

As part of a small but dynamic team, the Project Officers will support a range of strategic business initiatives, with a focus on our Elective Surgery Program (ESP) and the Public Fertility Service (PFS).

For ESP the Project Officer will support the project team and working groups to deliver a program of system reform in elective surgery that is underpinned by collaboration with other services providers, a dedication to excellence, learning and continuous improvement. For the PFS the role will support the design and implementation of the new service through established working groups and committees, including our partner services. Applicants who are invited to interview will be provided with more information about these projects.

We are looking for people with strong communication and people skills, excellent at building relationships, sound project methodology skills, and the ability to handle multiple initiatives at once.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Support the planning of and collaborating on projects to ensure a clear understanding of the project, purpose, scope & objectives by all project team members. This includes maintaining project documentation including status reports, risk/issue registers, project management reports and schedules throughout the lifecycle of projects
• ​Monitor and update the progress of tasks throughout the life of the project/initiative to ensure delivery of project outcomes within agreed timeframes
• Build robust and positive working relationships with key stakeholders, maintain a professional approach in all interactions and bringing others along on project progress. This includes external stakeholders, Women’s staff and volunteers and across the Strategy, Planning and Performance team

About you

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

• ​​Ability to learn quickly and adapt to a dynamic environment, solve problems and build successful collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure they are part of the solution.
• ​Ability to manage incoming work with competing priorities, meet deadlines, and advanced attention to detail and accuracy in all activities.
• ​Excellent verbal and written communication skills to produce and present business-related documentation.
• ​Ability to identify and propose effective solutions to problems through proactively seeking information needed to resolve work problems.
• ​Ability to digest/synthesise large volumes of quantitative and qualitative information.​
• Demonstrated success coordinating, analysing and reporting of complex data, within high profile projects.

Our offering

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace hat is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.

Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, on-site car parking and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.

It is a policy of the Women's to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability. If you need assistance or adjustments to fully participate in the application or interview process, please contact the hiring manager listed under 'Contact Person'

Ready to make the move?

For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “Apply Now” below.

All appointments to the Women’s are subject to a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

Influenza Vaccination Requirement

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza. Evidence of vaccination is required.

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.

If you would like to receive this information/publication in an accessible format (such as large print or audio) please call our HR Enquiries line on: 03 8345 2080, or email [email protected] using the subject line: Project Officers - Elective Surgery Program enquiry via EthicalJobs.