Aps Level 5

**Job Reference Number **22-HERDIV-15379

**Classification **APS Level 5

**Job Title **Communications Officer

**Division **Health Economics and Research Division

**Branch **Health and Medical Research Office Branch

**Section **Strategy and Governance Section

**Location **Woden, ACT

**Status **Ongoing

**Employment type **Full-time

**Salary Range **$79,002 - $85,437

**Security Clearance **Baseline (Protected, Highly Protected, Restricted, Confidential)***

**Desirable Qualifications **Tertiary qualification in communications or media production.

**Contact Officer Name**:Jennifer Crone
**Phone**:02 62899274

**Eligibility**
- To be eligible for employment with the Department of Health and Aged Care

applicants must be an Australian citizen at the time an offer of employment is made
- An applicant’s suitability for employment with Health will also be assessed through a

variety of pre-employment check processes, such as:

- Satisfactory completion of an Australian Federal Police criminal history check,

and where relevant a Working with Children and Vulnerable People Check.
- Completion of a medical declaration and pre-employment medical (where

required).
- Providing evidence of qualifications.

**Division Responsibilities**

The Health and Economics Research Division (HERD) is responsible for ensuring the health

evaluation, innovation, and use of data to develop and implement integrated, evidence
- based health policies. A key priority for the Division is the implementation of the Medical

Research and Future Fund 10-year investment plan and Biomedical Translation Fund.

The Division continues to develop the Department's strategic economic outlook across

Australia's health system and provide specialised modelling, reliable forward estimates and

costings for all major Commonwealth health and aged care programs. The Division is also

responsible for strengthening the Department's evidence based approach and enhancing

our ability to understand and analyse data collected from the complex and data rich system

we oversee.

**Branch Responsibilities**

The Health and Medical Research Office (HMRO) has policy responsibility for

Commonwealth health and medical research initiatives to improve patient care, improve

the efficiency and effectiveness of the health system, and boost economic growth. This

includes the implementation and operation of the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF),

the Biomedical Translation Fund (BTF) and input into whole-of-Government initiatives to

stimulate science and innovation and resulting research translation and commercialisation

to improve health and drive economic growth.

The Branch monitors developments, discoveries and new technologies emerging from

health and medical research and collaborates across government portfolios, including with

the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Department of Industry,

Science, and Resources, AusIndusty, Department of Education, and stakeholders to promote

knowledge exchange and translation and evidence-based policy development.

**Section Responsibilities**

The role is in the Strategy and Governance Section in HMRO. Strategy and Governance

Section comprises several work components, including:

- development of and input into policies relevant to the delivery of MRFF and BTF

outcomes and the administration of the MRFF and the BTF
- the provision of advice on matters relating to the Medical Research Future Fund Act

2015 and other relevant legislation

administration of the MRFF and the BTF
- supporting the Australian Medical Research Advisory Board (AMRAB) to meet its

legislative obligations to develop the Australian Medical Research and Innovation

Strategy and Priorities to guide investments from the MRFF, and to provide advice to

the Health Minister, including through:

- the development and maintenance of the Australian Medical Research and

Innovation Strategy and Priorities
- the provision of secretariat services
- the provision of research and advice in support of AMRAB deliberations
- supporting the Government’s review of the Medical Research Future Fund Act 2015***
- coordinating the Department’s participation in whole-of-government initiatives in

relation to research, science and technology, and the health system
- facilitating HMRO’s engagement with stakeholders (internal and external, and in

relation to international inputs) to optimise MRFF outcomes
- managing budget-related matters relevant to the MRFF and the BTF, including the

development and costing of new policy proposals
- drafting of the MRFF report on financial support for medical research and innovation
- coordination of the MRFF Coronavirus Research Response, and drafting briefings and

correspondence related to MRFF’s COVID-19 research funding
- managing strategic communications for the MRFF, including:

- providing consistent, timely and accurate information about MRFF grant

opportunities and outcomes;
- promoting the