Project Officer

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time

**Position Classification**:Health Manager Level 2

**Remuneration**: $109,857 to $129,624, plus Superannuation

**Location**: 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards NSW, in a hybrid working environment

**Hours Per Week**: 38

**Requisition ID**:REQ547538

**Closing Date**:Tuesday 4th February 2025

Join the Workforce Operational Strategic Unit at NSW Health for an exciting opportunity to be part of something truly transformative Our team is at the forefront of building and expanding innovative health workforce solutions including the NSW Health Deployment Program.

We are strategically positioned to make a significant impact, enriching health in millions of ways every day. You'll be working in a competitive and stimulating environment that fosters creativity and innovation.

Be part of an operational and strategic team that plans, develops, facilitates, and evaluates health workforce strategies including the NSW Health Deployment Program. Providing nurses, midwives, and allied health staff opportunities to travel and work at hospitals and health services that have a short-term need for their skills and experience. Together, we can achieve extraordinary things

**About us**
- Join a passionate team dedicated to innovation and creativity.
- Embrace a healthy work-life balance with our flexible/hybrid working hours.
- Building a sustainable future for NSW Health.

**About the role**

With your skills and experience, you can contribute to the millions of ways we’re enhancing health and wellness while developing your career as part of the largest health organisation in Australia.

This role includes the opportunity to work with new and existing policies and see those changes come to life in project and program delivery. Working across key workforce strategies, your skills and experience will help deliver better outcomes for patients and the community.

Health Manager level 2, starting salary from $109,857 to $129,624 plus Super, with a 38-hour work week.

**What you will do**
- Coordinate and implement a range of projects and support the project lead/s in the delivery of organisational and/or business projects system performance goals.
- Prepare and maintain project documentation and source and collate information for reporting, monitoring, and evaluation purposes to contribute to achievement of the project outcomes
- Assist in the preparation of high-quality written advice in the form of reports, briefs, policy, discussion papers or circulars to inform or respond to requests.

**About you**

We are seeking motivated and committed individuals who can support the work of NSW Health with:

- A person with a high level of integrity and personal ethics
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and customer service skills.
- Analytical thinking approach to tasks and problem solving.
- Methodical worker with the capacity to proactively plan and prioritise to balance competing demands.

**How to apply**

At the Ministry of Health, we want you to make the most of the opportunities you’ll get to grow your skills and your career, surrounded by authentic, smart people and leaders.

**Target Questions**
- Describe a specific instance where you applied your analytical and problem-solving skills to address an operational challenge within a project? How did you identify the issue, what steps did you take to resolve it, what tools did you utilise and what was the outcome?
- Describe your overall experience in providing coordination and administrative support for highly complex projects within a large and complex organisation? Please include details about your relevant qualifications or equivalent experience, your organisational skills in demanding environments, and how you prioritize competing demands to achieve customer-focused results.

**Closing Date: Tuesday 4th February 2025**

**Need more information?**

**Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**

At the Ministry of Health, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and flexible environment which reflects the community and customers we serve. We actively promote the employment of women, people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, LGBTIQ+ community and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

To be eligible for employment in these roles you must be an Australian citizen, or a permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia.

**Additional information**
- Please note the selection process will include a range of merit-based techniques to assist in determining your suitability for the role.

For more information about working at the NSW Health, please visit our career portal.

**Applications Close: Tuesday 4th February 2025