• FTE: Full time (or .8FTE, please enquire)
• Salary: $92,792 + super + benefits incl. salary packaging
• Location: Work from anywhere in the western Victoria region - (Horsham, Warrnambool, Ballarat or Geelong areas) 

About Us

Western Victoria Primary Health Network (WVPHN) is responsible for increasing the efficiency, effectiveness and coordination of health services for patients, particularly those at risk of poor health outcomes. 

Working together with community and health industry partners, WVPHN is committed to strengthening the primary healthcare system, based on local needs. Our four regional centres in Ballarat, Geelong, Horsham and Warrnambool, drive local engagement and ensure strong rural and regional connections, through the development of local community and clinical councils.

Benefits of working with Western Victoria PHN

At WVPHN we celebrate diversity within and outside of our organisation. We consciously remove barriers and enable an environment for all to belong, feel welcome and be heard. This aligns with our organisational values of Respect, Connect and Lead. 

We also pride ourselves on being a supportive and flexible working place that offers a great range of benefits:

• Generous salary packaging options up to $15,900 + $2,650 meals and entertainment
• Professional development allowance ($1,200 per year per FTE) and leave.
• Family friendly and flexible working arrangements
• Collaboration with passionate, likeminded professionals
• Option to purchase additional leave.
• Additional leave between the Christmas and New Year period
• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program

About the Role

The Project Lead – GP Matching position will work on projects across the Healthy Ageing Program to develop, coordinate and manage all aspects of projects for WVPHN, working with relevant stakeholders to enable timely delivery.

The Project Lead will be responsible for supporting key documentation and actions and will be pivotal in enhancing and supporting the project work of the healthy ageing portfolio. They will have demonstrable experience in stakeholder engagement, relationship building and data analysis.

This is a hybrid/remote role: working from anywhere in the western Victoria region, plus occasional office attendance and travel required for training, meetings and all staff days.

Duties include:

• Support the Senior Manager Healthy Ageing on the development, implementation, monitoring, delivery, and evaluation of all aspects of the projects and the overarching PHN healthy ageing strategy.
• Develop or contribute to identifying project timelines, deliverables, benefits (or outcome) realisation planning with the team and in line with funding and reporting obligations. 
• Actively identify risks, assumptions, issues, dependency, and decisions and monitor delegations for action and maintain logs. 
•  Support the Senior Manager Healthy Ageing to coordinate and procure services including contract management and commissioning of services. 
• Provide support on identifying and documenting key stakeholder interest in the project’s outcome, including stakeholders at national, state, and local level. 

Key Selection Criteria (please address in your application)

• Tertiary qualification and/or experience in business development, health, human services or other related discipline
• Demonstrated considerable project management experience with multiple stakeholder projects or programs
• Capacity to work both autonomously and in a team environment on a range of diverse issues to meet project or program quality requirements
• Demonstrated analytical and evaluation skills as well as written, verbal and facilitation skills
• Please refer to the Position Description on our website for the complete list of Key Selection Criteria

Employment requirements (please address in your application)

• Be prepared to undergo a National Police Check, prior to appointment
• A current Victorian driver’s licence
• Evidence of current COVID-19 vaccinations
• Be prepared to receive the annual influenza vaccination
• Working rights in Australia (visa, permanent resident, citizen)

Next steps

This is a highly attractive role and we are keen to find the right person, therefore we will be actively contacting applicants during the recruitment process to shortlist for suitability. Please don’t delay in submitting your interest!

Click Apply Now to submit your application.

The full position description, including further detail about the role, is attached below and also available from our website: westvicphn.com.au/about-us/wvphn-careers/.

For further information regarding this position, please contact:

Lisa Paulin, Senior Manager for Aged Care

Phone: 1300 176 272

Email: [email protected] using the subject line: Project Lead - GP and Aged Care Program - Western Victoria Region enquiry via EthicalJobs.