Manager, Continuing Professional Development

Posted: 12/06/2025

Closing Date: 26/06/2025

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Sydney CBD

Job Category: Program & Project Management

**About the RACP**
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) connects, represents, and trains physicians and trainee physicians across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The RACP provides services to support the delivery of training, continuing professional development, and health policy and advocacy to medical health professionals.

**Our Values**
Accountable | Collaborate | Indigenise and Decolonise | Lead the way | Respect

**Why Join Us?**

**Our 3-2-1 Hybrid Working Model**
- 3 days from anywhere in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand per week,
- 2 days from an RACP office location per week,
- 1 of the two days per week in office spent with your team.

**About the Role**

The Manager, CPD is senior position in the team responsible for leading the strategic direction, development, and delivery of the College's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program. This role ensures the program is aligned with member and CPD participant needs, maintains regulatory compliance, and delivers measurable value by supporting lifelong learning and professional excellence.

Acting as the bridge between stakeholders, CPD participants, and internal teams, the CPD Manager drives innovation, ensures program activities are impactful, and fosters continuous improvement. The role also oversees the development and execution of the CPD Program Plan, a structured framework that guides the planning, implementation, and evaluation of CPD activities.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Leads CPD program strategy,development, delivery and support, and communicates this clearly across the Portfolio and division.
- Ensures regulatory and compliance alignment of the program, and anticipates future needs, seizing opportunities as a CPD home.
- Strategically deploys resources and manages financials effectively to improve outcomes and sustainability of the program.
- Ensures the delivery and continuous improvement of the compliance arm of the CPD program including the operational priorities of incompletes, audit, verified activities and compliance reporting.
- Ensures the CPD program design aligns with user needs, focusing on member engagement and user experience.
- Leads product development and delivery for the program, in close collaboration with Program Innovation.
- Manages program stakeholders, including building and nurturing important relationships for existing operations and future growth, internally and externally.
- Provides support, advice, training, and mentoring to team members to enhance their skills in administration and program development, including complaint handling.

**Desired Skills and Experience**:

- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline (e.g. adult education, medical education, professional development, program design and delivery).
- Experience working with online learning programs and micro learning.
- Minimum of five years of project or program management experience (preferably in a health, higher education or not-for-profit organisation) within technology driven environments.
- Problem solving skills, ability to make complex judgements, find creative solutions whilst meeting tight deadlines.
- Highly developed and effective negotiation, influencing, and people and stakeholder engagement and management skills.
- High level oral and written communication, including policy/process documentation and fluent, concise and accurate report writing, to gain consensus and commitment from others.
- Understanding of risk management framework.
- Demonstrated experience to develop, monitor and reach predicted outcomes in line with strategic and business plans.
- Ability to work independently, undertaking a high level of personal responsibility and initiative as required within the role.
- Open attitude to working others and working on innovative projects.

**Ready to Apply?**

Applications will close on **26 June 2025 at COB.