Project Manager

(HE07) $101,785 to $113,839 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

Fixed term, full time position available for 12 months.

An exciting opportunity to provide project support and coordination to improve outcomes for people experiencing heart rhythm disorders

This position presents an exciting opportunity to provide high-level project management capabilities and support the strategic direction of the Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders.

The Project Manager will facilitate the implementation, conduct, completion, and reporting of clinical studies. This includes trial monitoring, ongoing trial administrative support, and maintaining positive and transparent relationships with key stakeholders including sponsors, contract research organisations, clinicians, and government/regulatory bodies.

The primary purpose of this position is to ensure timeline adherence and scope of multi-site clinical trials, whilst ensuring quality delivery. This will also entail mentoring, training of team members and reviewing all key clinical study documentation while working under the general direction of the Director of the CHRD and the Principal Investigator of individual studies.

To be successful you will need:

• Experience in project management, including:
• Developing and executing project plans
• Monitoring process, managing relationships, and ensuring milestones are met
• Working with clients to finalise contract terms, including pricing and payment schedules
• Tracking business development activities, reporting on key metrics, and analysing data to improve performance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing, presentations, and preparing grant and ethics applications.
• Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise work and operate independently
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with team members and various stakeholders
• Proficiency in computer skills

The path to Adelaide University

We are on an exciting path to Adelaide University as we prepare to open our doors in January 2026. Adelaide University will combine the strengths of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia, and we are dedicated to creating an accessible and future-focused educational powerhouse that fosters economic and social wellbeing through ground-breaking research and innovative teaching. You can learn more about Adelaide University HERE and more information will be provided throughout the recruitment process.

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

We offer a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaboration - offers you vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career.

It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work's cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high-quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.

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Your faculty's broader role

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences contains one of Australia's largest concentrations of leading health researchers, teachers and clinical titleholders. It's comprised of eight schools and a number of specialist disciplines, institutes and centres, variously focused on world-class research, and training the next generation of: medical doctors; surgeons; dentists; nurses; psychiatrists; psychologists; and other health professionals.

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If you have the talent, we'll give you the opportunity. Together, let's make history.

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Applications close 11:55pm, 10 September 2025.

The University reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, contact:

Adriano Catalano

Executive Assistant to Prof Prash Sanders | Health and Medical Sciences

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We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Female applicants, people with a disability and/or and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.