Project Officer

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Part time

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Communications, Marketing and Media, Finance, Human Resources, IT and Telecommunications, Information Management, Research

Reference: 24649

**Project Officer (Research)**

**Fixed Term Position - 12 months**

**Part Time 32 hours per week**

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

The Office for Research provides governance oversight for research at the Royal Women's Hospital, as well as managing the research budget, producing the annual research report and undertaking strategic planning. The Research Office liaises with all research groups at RWH and reports to the Board and CEO through the Chief medical Officer.

**Your contribution**

The purpose of this position is to provide project support to the Research Director and wider research team in the development and collation of supporting research and documentation that will inform the development of the Women’s Research Institute (WRI) framework and proposal. The Project Officer will work collaboratively to gather and synthesize relevant information to support the formation of the WRI.

Reporting to the Research Director, this position requires initiative and an ability to work independently in sourcing and synthesizing information. Good writing and communication skills are essential to ensure output of impactful reports.

The Project Officer will also, where required, assist with day-to-day tasks of the Research Office to allow the Research Director and other staff to focus on WRI-related matters.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Provide expert advice (both project and research focused) to the Research Director and Women’s Executive team across a range of research activities to assist in strategic decision-making and project planning, with a particular emphasis on the establishment of a Women’s Research Institute (WRI).
- In consultation with the Research Director, develop strategic documents in support of the development of the Royal Women’s Hospital WRI.
- Complete data analysis, reviews, investigations and reporting throughout planning and execution, utilising analytical skills to enable fact-based decisions.
- Prepare written reports to communicate progress and inform project decisions, including briefings, discussion papers, project proposals and status reports.

**About you**

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant area AND significant research experience
- Relevant experience of research management or demonstrated capacity to manage the complexity of research administration or strategic tasks.
- High level interpersonal and verbal communication skills with the ability to liaise and influence a range of people across all levels of the organisation and to effectively communicate analysis and advice to senior management
- Demonstrated leadership ability and capacity to coordinate staff in addition to working effectively as a member of a team

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the**_ exceptional _**in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

**Ready to make the move?**

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement***

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category A or B of the departments risk ratings, applicants will be required to have been vaccinated against influenza. Evidence of vacci