Project Officer

**About the role**:
Working in a fast-paced environment, you are able to communicate clearly with internal and external stakeholders and support team members to deliver health improvement initiatives involving multiple teams from Victoria's health services.

The role involves support of committees, including reporting on progress, recording minutes, and meeting coordination. It also involves support of event planning and coordination.

The role requires the capacity to develop effective ongoing relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure agreed timeframes are met.

The successful applicant will demonstrate capability for systems thinking, knowledge of improvement methodologies, excellent communication skills, attention to detail and effective teamwork. They will also have an ability to influence others, to manage projects and ensure agreed timeframes and outcomes are met.

The role reports to the Manager of Team 2 of the Mental Health Improvement Program and will work closely with other team members to ensure the implementation and delivery of Safer Care Victoria's functions and vision.

**About us**:
At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.

We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.

**How you'll make a difference**:
**Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:
**Knowledge and Skills**

Project Management - Consults, liaises with and influences key stakeholders; produces detailed project plans where objectives are clearly defined and action steps for achieving them are clearly specified; monitors performance against objectives and manages project risks and issues; ensures project objectives are met.

Problem Solving - Seeks all relevant information for problem-solving; liaises with stakeholders; analyses issues from different perspectives and draws sound inferences from information available; identifies and proposes workable solutions to problems; implements solutions, evaluates effectiveness and adjusts actions as required.

Systems Thinking - Diagnoses trends, obstacles, and opportunities in the internal and external environment; understand the linkages between natural systems and communities to inform policy; conceptualises and defines the systems working within the organisation

Planning and Organising - Sets clearly defined objectives and priorities and operates accordingly, reviewing and adjusting as required; identifies processes, tasks and resources required to achieve a goal; establishes systems and procedures to guide work and track progress; recognises actual and potential barriers and finds effective ways to deal with them.

Personal Qualities

Teamwork - Cooperates and works well with others in the pursuit of team goals; collaborates and shares information; shows consideration, concern and respect for others' feelings and ideas; accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others; encourages resolution of conflict within group.

Conceptual and Analytical Ability - Deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems; has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations.

Creativity and Innovation - Generates new ideas; draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things; actively influences events and promotes ideas; translates creative ideas into workplace improvements; reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.

Integrity - Committed to the public interest; operates in a manner that is consistent with the organisations code of conduct; inspires trust by treating all individuals fairly.

Relationship Building - Establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; minimises surprises.

Qualifications and Specialist Expertise

Qualifications - A tertiary qualification in fields related to health administration, project management, public health, health care, paramedic, pharmacist, or allied health would be desirable.

Specialist Expertise
- Demonstrated knowledge of quality improvement and associated methodologies is desirable
- Previous experience working in the mental health sector would be highly regarded
- People with mental health and/or AOD lived experience are encouraged to apply

To learn more please click ‘Apply' to view the Position Description on the Careers.vic website.

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