Manager, Environmental Sustainability

4 weeks ago

Melbourne, Australia Victorian Health Building Authority Full time

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / Ongoing

Organisation: Victorian Health Building Authority

**Salary**: $129,379 - $173,138

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: VG/DH/HI/1760845

The Department of Health plays a critical role in the Victorian health system and is responsible for shaping it to meet the health needs of all Victorians. We’re focused on supporting Victorians to be as healthy as they can; whether through alerting them to seasonal risks like thunderstorm asthma, notifying them of contact with communicable diseases, safeguarding their drinking water, developing the best health, wellbeing and care facilities in the world, being at the forefront of mental health and wellbeing treatment or accelerating medical research. It’s all part of the way we partner with the community to help every individual lead a healthy life.

**Role purpose**:
The Manager Environmental Sustainability has responsibility for leading the Victorian Health Building Authority's (VHBA) work on delivering sustainable and resilient health care capital projects. The role will drive systemic change to embed sustainability and climate adaptation into VHBA's project management framework.

The role will provide technical advice to key stakeholders during the project's lifecycle from masterplan through to detailed design and capture benefits of building sustainable and resilient hospitals. The role will develop and maintain comprehensive technical guidance on sustainability in capital works and represent VHBA on relevant working groups and forums.

**Are you**:

- A person with excellent relationship building skills?
- Passionate about driving systemic change to improve the sustainability of health infrastructure?
- A person with technical understanding of environmentally sustainable design in capital works?
- A highly organised individual, looking to work across a breadth of activities?

**About us**:
At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.

We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.

**Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:
**Knowledge and skills**:

- **Systems thinking**: diagnoses trends, obstacles and opportunities in the internal and external environment; understands the linkages between natural systems and communities to inform policy; conceptualises and defines the systems working within the organisation.
- **Problem solving**: seeks all relevant information for problem solving; liaises with stakeholders; analyses issues from different perspectives and draws sound inferences from information available; identifies and proposes workable solutions to problems; implements solutions, evaluates effectiveness and adjusts actions as required.
- **Project management**: consults, liaises with, and influences key stakeholders; produces detailed project plans where objectives are clearly defined and action steps for achieving them are clearly specified; monitors performance against objectives and manages project risks and issues; ensures project objectives are met.
- **Stakeholder-management**: identifies issues in common for one or more stakeholders and uses to build mutually beneficial partnerships; identifies and responds to stakeholder's underlying needs; uses understanding of the stakeholder's organisational context to ensure outcomes are achieved; find innovative solutions to resolve stakeholder issues.
- **Self-management**: invites feedback on own behaviour and impact; uses new knowledge or information about self to build a broader understanding of own behaviour and the impact it has on others; understands strong emotional reactions and seeks ways to more effectively manage them

**Personal qualities**:

- **Conceptual and analytical ability**: deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems; has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations
- **Creativity and innovation**: generates new ideas; draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things; actively influences events and promotes ideas; translates creative ideas into workplace improvements; reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.
- **Resilience**: perseveres to achieve goals, even in the face of obstacles; copes effectively with setbacks and disappointments; remains calm and in control under pressure; accepts constructive criticism in an objective manner, without becoming defensive.
- **Relationship building**: establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through d

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