Project Officer

**Employment Type**:Temporary Full-Time
**Remuneration**:$62,486.00 - $90,360 per annum + superannuation + salary packaging
**Location**: Wallsend
**Hours per week**: 38
**Requisition ID**:REQ602415
**Applications Close**:Sunday the 21st of September 25

Are you passionate about improving health outcomes and driving real change in communities?

Join Hunter New England Population Health and play a key role in reducing preventable disease risks and improving health outcomes for people across our diverse region - from pregnancy through to adulthood.

**About the Role**
Our Health Promotion team is an innovative and dynamic group passionate about improving health outcomes from pregnancy through to adulthood. We work to prevent and reduce harm from chronic disease risks, obesity, blood borne viruses, sexually transmitted infections, and injury risks across our diverse communities. A critical part of this role is ensuring services are effective and culturally appropriate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, supporting system-level changes that reflect community priorities.
You will also:

- Plan, implement, and evaluate health promotion programs and research initiatives.
- Strengthen partnerships with clinical services, community groups, and government agencies.
- Undertake data collection, service evaluation, and reporting to improve service effectiveness.
- Support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, clients, and partners through culturally safe practices.

**About you**
- You are a proactive and collaborative professional with a passion for health equity and prevention. You thrive on building relationships across
- sectors, working in diverse communities, and turning evidence into action.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in health, social science, or PDHPE (postgraduate qualifications desirable).
- Understanding of issues impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, and ability to support culturally safe service delivery.
- Experience in planning, implementing, and monitoring health promotion or disease prevention services.
- Strong ability to handle changing priorities and problem solve
- Strong communication skills to influence behaviours and foster collaboration.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver within deadlines.

**Benefits**
- Sustainable Healthcare initiatives: Together towards zero
- Additional Days Off (ADO) each month for full-time employees
- Salary packaging options
- Fitness Passport program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
- Opportunities to collaborate with a broad range of clinical and non-clinical professionals

Take the next step in your health promotion career and help us create positive change.

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**This is a Category A position.** Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive PD2024_015: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.

An eligibility list will be created for future permanent full or part time and temporary full or part time vacancies

This position is full time; however, part time/job share arrangements may also be considered.

Hunter New England Health employees may be eligible for a range of benefits such as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees, long service leave, paid maternity leave, and salary packaging options including meal expenses.

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