Project Officer

**About the role**:
The two Project Officer roles in the newly established Climate Health Victoria present a challenging and rewarding opportunity well suited to motivated, adaptable individuals, eager to work collaboratively in a small team. You will be required to support the development of initiatives that will reduce the health sector's carbon footprint and build resilience of the sector to climate change.
The roles have a strong focus on project management and data analysis and require the ability to work across different groups and workstreams to support timely project delivery. The roles will support either the Program Delivery or Data and Analytics teams within Climate Health Victoria to deliver of carbon accounting, climate change mitigation and adaptation projects.
As Project Officers, you will be required to provide specialist advice on climate change and environmental management matters; source, analyse and interrogate data; effectively liaise with health services environmental coordinators; respond to queries in a timely manner; liaise with internal divisions/agencies on environmental and climate related issues and support the implementation and monitoring of the health sector's environmental reporting requirements, the Health and Human Services Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan and emission reduction programs.

**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.

**How you'll make a difference**:Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:
Knowledge and Skills
Planning and Organising - Sets clearly defined objectives and priorities and operates accordingly, reviewing and adjusting as required; identifies processes, tasks and resources required to achieve a goal; establishes systems and procedures to guide work and track progress; recognises actual and potential barriers and finds effective ways to deal with them.
Problem Solving - Ability to prepare and undertake detailed data analysis, advanced basic excel skills, ability to manage data bases to identify and propose workable solutions to problems. Ability to seek all relevant information for problem solving; to investigate and probe for the facts; to liaise with stakeholders; to analyse issues from different perspectives and draw sound inferences from information available.
Verbal and Written Communication - Confidently conveys information in a simple, clear, concise and interesting way; clearly understands the target audience and the objectives of the communication; uses audience feedback to refine communication and ensure communications are understood; handles difficult and sensitive communications well.
Self - Management - Plans and prioritises work to ensure outcomes are achieved, tests ideas and issues with manager, uses strengths to contribute constructively and consciously manages the impact of own weaknesses, anticipates own reactions to situations and prepares accordingly.
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.
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.
Qualifications and Specialist Expertise
- A tertiary qualification in climate science, environmental science, or similar would be highly regarded.
- High level skills in Microsoft skills.

**The following would be highly regarded**:

- Knowledge and experience in a similar role
- Experience in at least two of the following areas - climate change/sustainability project delivery, clinical practice or Victorian Government policy experience
- High level skills in Exce