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**Job no**: 0064135
**Location**: Parkville
**Role type**: Full-time; Fixed-term for 2 years
**Faculty**: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
**Department**: Melbourne Centre for Clinical Trials / Melbourne Academic Centre for Health
**Salary**: UOM 8 - $119,742 - $129,607 p.a. plus 17% super
- **Facilitate best practices in the conduct of clinical trials across the MCCT ensuring compliance with NHMRC requirements.**:

- **Lead initiatives that enhance the University’s clinical trial operations and strategic collaboration with health service and research institute partners.**:

- **Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families**

**About the Role**
This joint role between the Melbourne Centre for Clinical Trials (MCCT) and the Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH) offers a unique opportunity to help develop and shape a new clinical trials centre - the MCCT - and provide oversight of collaborative clinical trials facilitation activities across MACH partners. As the Clinical Trials Manager for both Centres, you will be instrumental in building the MCCT, while collaborating with over 20 partners including: hospitals, medical research institutes, government entities, and potentially international stakeholders. This position offers significant autonomy to influence the direction of the newly developed centre, ensuring best practices and compliance with NHMRC requirements while driving strategic goals.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Provide high level advice, analysis, and recommendations to support the preparation of key strategy documents, effective and influential submissions, reports, and high impact presentations.
- Assist MACH partners with the development and implementation of research initiatives of relevance to members including _marra ngarrgoo, marra goorri _- Victorian Aboriginal Health, Medical and Wellbeing Research Accord.
- Lead projects through advanced decision making to harmonise clinical trial governance across MACH partners and liaise with other Victorian health services through the Hospital Research Managers and Directors committees.

**Who We Are Looking For**

You will also have:

- A relevant tertiary degree with subsequent relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education and training.
- Comprehensive experience and understanding of how the conduct of clinical trials could be improved and/or be more efficient through shared resources/staffing, etc. across the MCCT/MACH partners.
- Demonstrated project management experience and the ability to prioritise competing projects and demands.
- A strong track record of being able to engage and influence at multiple levels of an organisational with a focus on delivery and stakeholder management.

For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.
- This position requires the incumbent to hold or acquire a current and valid Working with Children Check to ensure the University provides a safe environment for everyone._

**Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.** This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.

**Your New Team - The Melbourne Centre for Clinical Trials (MCCT)**
The Melbourne Centre for Clinical Trials (MCCT) is an exciting new initiative which will unite clinical trials and methodology groups across the University of Melbourne and affiliated hospitals and medical research institutes - serving as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for clinical research excellence.

**Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH)**
The Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH) is an NHMRC accredited Research Translation Centre that brings the University of Melbourne, as the administering member, together with ten health services, eight medical research institutes and La Trobe University as an affiliate member. MACH unites healthcare providers, researchers, and consumers to accelerate research translation, deliver precision care, and develop future healthcare leaders, working with partners across sectors to address health challenges and strengthen the economy.

**What We Offer You**
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits page

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