Partnerships Lead

Partnerships Lead

Employment Type: Full Time, Exempt (Until November 2027)

Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3

Remuneration: $127, $144,444.00 per annum, plus superannuation and 17.5% leave loading

Hours Per Week: 38

Location: 1 Reserve Road, St Leonards, Sydney

Requisition ID: REQ608578

• Be part of an organisation that makes a difference in cancer control in NSW
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply

Where you'll be working

The Cancer Institute NSW is the NSW Government's cancer control agency, established to lessen the impact of cancer across the state.

Working at the Cancer Institute NSW means joining a team of committed and dedicated staff who are proud to be a part of the Institute's purpose of overseeing and accelerating the effectiveness of cancer control in NSW.

The Cancer Institute is a collaborative working environment that encourages diversity and inclusion in how we work and the way we work together. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are strongly encouraged to apply. Greater consideration will be given to suitable applicants, in order to improve access to employment and career opportunities (GSE Rule 26).

What you'll be doing

The Partnerships Lead will lead and manage the Cancer Institute NSW strategic partnership program by coordinating the engagement process, ensuring strategic alignment with organisational priorities and policies, to strengthen research and innovation activities within Cancer Institute NSW and across NSW. This role will also develop, execute and lead activities to build research and innovation partnership capability and capacity at the Cancer Institute NSW.

Remuneration/Benefits

In addition to base salary:

• 12% superannuation
• 4 weeks annual leave (plus 17.5% leave loading)
• 10 days sick leave
• 40 hours per week which include accrual of monthly Allocated Day Off (ADO) x 12 per year.

Access to:

• Generous Flexible Working practices
• Fitness Passport: a membership card for NSW government employees that gives you and your family unlimited access to 400+ gyms and other facilities at one low price.
• Novated car leasing arrangement
• Salary sacrificing to superannuation.

For your application to be considered

To submit your application, please provide:

• Your resume (maximum five pages)
• A covering letter addressing the Essential Requirements, as outlined in the Role Description
• A response to the Pre-screening questions, as outlined below.

Essential requirements

• Tertiary and/or postgraduate qualification in an appropriate discipline such as health, public health or health promotion or equivalent, and relevant professional experience and training.
• Demonstrated expert understanding of the NSW and national cancer research sector.
• Demonstrated strong project management skills with great attention to detail and demonstrated expertise of leadership within an assessment and compliance environment.
• Experience in research management and managing partnerships across a range of stakeholders.

If successful for interview candidates must bring original copies of essential qualifications to be sighted by the panel, and one copy to provide to panel.

Pre-screening questions

• Describe your experience where you had to develop or facilitate research relationships between internal and external stakeholders (for e.g academic institutions, industry partners or government agencies). In your response, please articulate the overall purpose or goal of the service, how you engaged with key stakeholders, what strategies you used to ensure alignment with diverse partners, the tools or frameworks you used to lead and support your team effectively, any challenges you encountered, and any lessons learned.
• Demonstrating your understanding of the cancer research and/or health care sector in NSW or nationally, what strategic partnership opportunities should the Cancer Institute consider? What emerging trends and/or sector challenges should the Institute consider?

Interested?

For more information:

• Click here for the Role Description
• Find out more about applying for this position

For more information about the Cancer Institute NSW please visit For role related queries or questions contact Michelle Moeskops on

Applications Close: Sunday, 19th October 2025 at 11:59PM

All Cancer Institute roles are based at St Leonards, Sydney, and candidates are required to be Sydney based.

The CORE+4 Values define what is important to the Cancer Institute NSW and our employees.

Our values are: Collaboration, Openness, Respect, Empowerment, Strategic, Supportive, Innovative and Flexible.

The Cancer Institute NSW is unable to offer salary packaging. Salaries will be negotiated commensurate to experience and qualifications of the role.

The Cancer Institute NSW supports flexible working practices for all employees and welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from diverse cultural backgrounds and people with disabilities. Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health. For more information please visit

Please indicate if you have any accessibility requirements in your application or speak with the contact person should you be called for an interview. We provide reasonable adjustment for people with a disability during the recruitment process and during their employment.

To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.

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