Sustainability Specialist

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time, Part time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial

Reference: 60962

**About Monash Health**

As an organisation, Monash Health is committed to mitigating our contributions to global warming and work towards adapting to new environmental conditions. We know that climate impacts are already being felt and there is great optimism about the opportunities rapid action will provide.

Monash Health recently released their Sustainability Strategy and Sustainability Action Plan - together these provide a clear and common direction for us to work towards and ensure we remain on track to achieve our sustainability goals and continue to build and operate a more sustainable health service.

This is a full-time, permanent position, based at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton. The Sustainability Specialist, may need to travel to and from other Monash Health and Monash Health community sites.

**About The Role**

You will be responsible for developing and implementing projects and initiatives to achieve the objectives outlined in our Monash Health Sustainability Action Plan. You will work towards finding new, innovative and economically reductive practices that minimise waste, reduce our carbon footprint, and maximize efficiency.

**About You**

You are an accomplished environmental practitioner with demonstrated experience delivering projects and service improvement initiatives.

You understand the impact that environmental problems such as climate change, have on health care services delivery, and work to promote greater sustainability and environmental health in the health sector.

You lead by example, thrive working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and are truly passionate about delivering a high standard of fit-for-purpose health services and programs to the largest public health catchment in Victoria. You are an advocate of Monash Health’s Strategic Guiding Principles.

**What You Need**:

- Experience within the Health sector would be highly regarded
- Project Management skills and experience required
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work as part of a team, including internal and external stakeholders
- Skills and ability to manage complex issues, problems and competing priorities

**What We Offer**
- Access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your skills & knowledge base
- Avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
- Mentorship & career guidance
- Support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- A supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies
- In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.