Project Officer

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / Until 13 March 2026

Organisation: Victorian Health Building Authority

**Salary**: $91,418 - $103,725

Occupation: Projects

Reference: VG/DH/HI/1763998

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.

**About the role**:
**Role purpose**

Reporting to the Manager, Property this position is responsible for supporting and leading the delivery of government property acquisitions, providing authoritative advice, administration management and support functions in relation to property across the health infrastructure sector. Using project management principles and experience in the property and built environment sector, the role will include the delivery of various health infrastructure projects in acquisition, providing property advice, investigation and feasibility analysis of land.

**Are you**:

- An experienced project professional with experience in project management, property development and land acquisition?
- A person with excellent written and verbal communication skills?
- Passionate about working collaboratively to achieve project deliverables?
- Flexible, agile and superior time management, administration manaemetn and organisational skills to deliver?
- A highly organised and motivated 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**:

- Problem solving: seeks all relevant information for problem solving; investigates and probes for the facts; liaises with stakeholders; analyses issues from different perspectives and draws sound inferences from information available; identifies and proposes workable solutions to problems.
- Project management: regularly communicates with and supports project team members; ensures project objectives are met by supporting ad hoc stakeholder reporting requests and monthly portfolio health and cashflow reporting processes, incl. project cashflow (claims and invoice management and processing) and associated data aggregation and analysis.
- **High/Advanced MS Excel and data aggregation and analysis skills will be highly regarded.**

**Personal qualities**:

- Detail focus: observes fine details; identifies gaps in information; looks for logical sequences of information; highlights practical considerations of plans and activities.
- Flexibility: adaptable; open to new ideas and innovates to drive new ways of working; accepts changed priorities without undue discomfort; recognises the merits of different options and acts accordingly. Willingness to operate with agility to meet customer and stakeholder needs.
- Relationship building: establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; minimises surprises.
- Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict within the group.
- Self-management: plans and prioritises work to ensure outcomes are achieved; resists the temptation to react immediately without taking time to think things through; uses strengths to contribute constructively and consciously manages the impact of own weaknesses; anticipates own reactions to situations and prepares accordingly.

**Qualifications/Specialist expertise**:

- Tertiary qualification in property, project management, construction or similar is preferred.
- Project management experience in property development and or land acquisition is essential.
- An understanding of the health sector or relev