Sustainability Specialist

Job Description

Agency Department of Health Work unit Strategy Reporting and Evaluation

Job title Sustainability Specialist - Performance and Designation Senior Administrative Officer 1

Systems Outcomes

Job type Full time Duration Ongoing

Salary $128,551- $143,611 Location Darwin

Position number 33833 RTF Closing 25/09/2025

Contact officer Michael Cormack, Director Strategy Reporting and Evaluation on or

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QUALIFICATIONS

Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans

The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with

disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss

this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.

Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the

OCPE website.

Primary objective

This role is an important driver of organisational-wide change across sustainable healthcare practices and influencing NT Health's

Leadership Board. The role is responsible for identifying and developing datasets to facilitate reporting and measuring performance and

drives NT Health's sustainable healthcare agenda.

Context statement

This role is part of a small, solution-oriented team focussed on facilitating the transition of NT Health to a more environmentally sustainable

agency. NT Health is working to apply and upscale existing and emerging solutions to help mitigate the worst impacts of climate change

in line with national and international efforts.

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Lead and co-lead initiatives to activation then to evaluation and reporting through complex governance systems, enabling a harmonised

approach of ensuring consistency, creating a unified structure and streamlining processes to support activation.

2. Provide expert leadership in co-design for the delivery of meaningful metrics including measures of success across complex points of

delivery by way of advice, analytics and reports.

3. Lead and support specialised practices that collates the emissions reporting in healthcare, ensuring alignment of reports to national

and international directions and commitments.

4. Demonstrate complex evaluation and reporting in scope with emissions reduction.

5. Targeted, impactful sustainability action through effective and timely transformation and communication of data into meaningful

metrics and insights.

6. Accurate regulatory, legislative and obligatory reporting.

7. Expert advice to decision making processes including opportunities, priority assessments, implementation to evaluation.

8. Lead, co-lead and co-design continuous improvement with sustainability and reduction of emissions activities.

Selection criteria

Essential

1. Demonstrated knowledge of sustainability in the healthcare setting; including assessing and aligning contemporary practices, trends,

technologies, research and best practice in analytics, climate and/or health; supported with evidence-based reporting.

2. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex concepts and to apply flexibility to adapt and be responsive to diverse

audiences.

3. Experience in designing resources and tools to enable successful recording and documentation of change.

4. Demonstrated ability in establishing reporting systems/tools to monitor and evaluate complex data, using various applications and

business intelligence systems. Advanced Excel experience is essential.

5. Ability to facilitate transformational change across NT Health in scope of sustainable healthcare and emissions reduction reporting.

6. Demonstrated skills to exemplify sustainable healthcare through a variety of complex scenarios, enact methodologies and principles,

enable fulfillment of obligations and substantiate with evidence.

7. Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including representation on state / Territory and Commonwealth

working groups.

Desirable

1. Demonstrate the knowledge of current and emerging research and other evidence-based information that supports validation of

sustainable healthcare.

2. Recent knowledge of NT Health services, systems, data sources and reporting.

Further information

Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice and

criminal history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is a relevant criminal history. For

immunisation requirements check with contact person for requirements.