Senior Manager, Program Operations and Partnerships

Senior Manager, Program Operations and Partnerships

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Overview

Join the HTQ Executive Team as the Senior Manager, Program Operations & Partnerships, where your leadership will shape the future of health and technology innovation. Working closely with the Executive Director, you'll drive the implementation of HTQ's strategic plan and lead the development, delivery, and evaluation of high-impact programs and operations.

This pivotal role offers the opportunity to foster strong partnerships across the HTQ network and beyond, ensuring collaborative success and operational excellence. As a key advisor to the Executive Director, you'll be instrumental in achieving the Board's strategic objectives to drive the translation of research into practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership – Partner with the Executive Director to drive HTQ's strategic planning, program development, and performance monitoring across a dynamic multi-institutional network.
• Stakeholder Engagement – Build and lead strong relationships with national partners and stakeholders, including NHMRC and other Research Translation Centres across Australia, to advance collaborative health innovation.
• Operational Excellence – Oversee operational delivery, governance, and financial management, ensuring alignment with UQ policies and strategic objectives.
• Team Leadership – Provide direction and support to professional staff, fostering a high-performance culture and leveraging the broader HTQ team's expertise.

About HTQ

Health Translation Queensland connects people and ideas to turn research and innovation into better health service delivery. As an NHMRC-accredited Research Translation Centre, we work across our partnership to build the capability of our research translation workforce and remove barriers to collaboration to accelerate translation of research into clinical practice.

Benefits

• Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave
• 17% superannuation contributions
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid options, flexible start/finish times and a condensed fortnight
• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family
• UQ Study for Staff
• Salary packaging options

About You

• Postgraduate qualifications in a relevant area and extensive relevant experience and management expertise; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
• Extensive senior management experience in a university, government, hospital, or medical research institute setting (or equivalent).
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including success in consultations and high-level negotiations with key stakeholders.
• Experience with preparing and delivering major reports, briefing documents and presentations to diverse audiences, including Executive and Board meetings.
• Experience in financial, operational and people management of a complex organisation, ideally in a research or health environment.
• Strong time-management, self-motivation, and ability to work independently and in a team; capable of handling multiple initiatives under time pressure.
• Commitment to upholding the University's values, with openness, respectfulness and integrity.

The successful candidate may be required to complete pre-employment checks, including right to work in Australia, criminal check, and education check. You must maintain unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment. Employer sponsored work rights are not available for this appointment.

Questions and Applications

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Dr Celia Webby, interim Executive Director, at celia.webby@healthtranslationqld.org.au or 0439 549 215.

For application inquiries, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at talent@uq.edu.au, stating the job reference number in the subject line.

To apply, please upload:

• Resume
• A cover letter summarising how your background aligns with the "About You" section

Our strength as an institution lies in our diverse colleagues. If you require an alternative method to submit your application due to accessibility needs or personal circumstances, please contact talent@uq.edu.au.

Other Information

UQ is committed to a fair, equitable and inclusive selection process. Candidates who don't meet all criteria are encouraged to apply and demonstrate potential. The selection panel considers potential and performance relative to opportunities when assessing suitability.

Applications close Sunday 21 September 2025, at 11.00pm AEST (R-55405). Interviews are tentatively scheduled for the week commencing 29 September.

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Project Management and Information Technology
• Industries: Higher Education

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