Portfolio Digital Lead

**Do you want to be a part of a dynamic, fast paced and agile project team? Do you want to make a real difference in laying the foundations; and building clinical care capability that will provide digital healthcare solutions in the home and at the bedside now and in the future?**

Queensland Health is currently undertaking several of the largest health infrastructure programs ever seen in Australia. The largest of these, the Capacity Expansion Program (CEP) is a visionary program designed to bring service and capabilities to more Queenslanders than ever before. Adding over 2,200 additional hospital beds across the state, with four entirely new hospitals and expansions to 11 already world class facilities.
- **Initial 12 month contract with possible extension**
- **Fortitude Valley location**
- **Must be Brisbane based to apply**

The Portfolio Digital Lead will report to the Senior Director and have portfolio wide oversight of the Digital Capital Program in order to proactively lead, manage, facilitate and coordinate the successful design and delivery of the end-to-end integrated digital scope necessary to achieve successful operational commissioning of new, expanded and redeveloped Queensland Health (QH) facilities.

**Key responsibilities of this role**:

- Be accountable for the standardised design and implementation approach of digital scope necessary to achieve successful completion of each stage in the delivery of QH facilities.
- Ensure that all digital infrastructure and systems meet the requirements of Queensland Health and Hospital and Health Services and is delivered in accordance with policy, laws, standards, digital frameworks, and best practice.
- Coordinate the completion of current state assessments of the existing facilities related to brownfield and expansion projects.
- Assure all Digital Blueprints and bottom-up cost estimates (ensuring consistency and standardisation wherever possible), working with eHealth Queensland (eHQ) projects, Health Capital Division (HCD) and Hospital and Health (HHS) representatives.
- Ensure final digital designs are aligned to the supported Digital Design Standards, are fit of purpose, meet clinical service delivery requirements, are supportable and within budget for each project.
- Work with the eHQ Digital Capital Program Digital Design Authority team to align design and implementations to ICT Standards.
- Undertake reviews of Investment Assurance Committee submissions to ensure Digital components are sufficiently considered, appropriately estimated and aligns with QH Digital Standards.
- Refine bottom-up digital cost estimates for health capital infrastructure projects through the use of a standardised requirements and cost estimation tool template and regular updates of the template to incorporate actual costs and lessons learned from projects.
- Train and guide Project Digital Leads in the standardised processes and tools for the delivery of digital components of health capital infrastructure programs and projects.
- Develop and manage an integrated portfolio plan for the delivery of all digital works across all digital capital programs.
- Provide ongoing oversight of the digital workstreams across all programs and projects. This includes development and maintenance of a digital dashboard and regular status reporting aligned with existing eHQ and HCD methods, cadence and obligations. This will include providing monthly performance reports to the eHealth Queensland Board of Management and the Capital Board of Management, for all Digital Capital Program initiatives.
- Proactively identify digital risks and issues and develop appropriate mitigation strategies to ensure key program and project milestones and dependencies are achieved and the overall integrity of the digital portfolio is maintained.
- Provide expertise and advice to eHealth Queensland executive management and relevant governance groups.
- Liaise, consult, and negotiate with key senior stakeholders at Chief Executive, CFO and CIO level across eHealth Queensland, 16 Hospital & Health Services and the Department of Health.
- Work with other eHQ digital programs (including ieMR and the Infrastructure Maintenance Program (IMP) to ensure a synchronised timeline with no scope overlap or gaps.
- Identify, establish and administer digital governance bodies necessary to support the digital works ensuring no duplication of existing governance forums.
- Represent eHQ on relevant Project Steering Committees
- Ensure the Program and all related projects integrate with Queensland Health's strategic direction, by providing high level expert advice, influencing, working collaboratively with, and aligning to Whole of Government IM/ICT initiatives, and state, national and international health bodies.

**Key experience/requirements for this role**:

- While not mandatory, relevant qualifications in Project Management, PRINCE2, MSP, Agile and ITIL will be highly regarded.
- Experience in leadership roles in gove