Project Officer

Garvan's Clinical Translation and Engagement (CT & E) Platform is an interdisciplinary team of genetic counsellors, educators, psychosocial and clinical researchers with advanced capabilities in health and translational research.

As one of Garvans scientific platforms the CT & E Platform offers health and psychosocial research expertise, specialised research services, infrastructure, and support to enable Garvan researchers to have clinical, social, economic, and scientific impact. We are developing and implementing a Consumer and Community Involvement program where the consumer and community 'voice' is integral to the way our research is designed, delivered, and translated into better health outcomes.

THE OPPORTUNITY

A new position for a 0.6FTE Project Officer; Consumer and Community Involvement in Research has been created to further strengthen our impact and ensure our research program is aligned to the needs of consumers.

**Salary**: $100,000 + 11% super + salary packaging (Prorated $60,000)

Employment Type: Permanent Part Time Opportunity (22.8 hours per week)

SNAPSHOT OF BENEFITS
- Generous salary packaging to save you income tax on your wages thereby boosting your monthly take home pay (max. $15,900 general expenses + $2,650 meals/accom)
- Ample opportunities for on-going training and development
- Stimulating, diverse and highly international research environment
- Flexible work arrangements e.g. start / finish times
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for both parents including paid superannuation
- A range of additional leave types to meet your personal needs including cultural leave, conference leave, community service and study leave
- Discounted Health Insurance
- Lifestyle discounts with our community partners

WHAT YOU WILL DO

In collaboration with CT & E staff:

- Coordinate the CCIR program at Garvan ensuring strong alignment with Garvan's strategy, including reporting, collaboration and quality.
- Connect researchers and consumers and support them in all facets of consumer and community involvement at Garvan to improve research outcomes
- Collect data and continue to document procedures for the CCIR program at Garvan to support ongoing communication, collaboration, coordination, and reporting of the program.
- Liaise with the CCIR Steering Committee and incorporate their feedback and guidance where appropriate
- Iterate processes to develop and maintain diverse and effective consumer & community relationships at Garvan.
- Identify and provide researchers and consumers with access to additional CCI resources, training opportunities and supporting infrastructure for consumers and researchers.

ABOUT YOU
- Relevant tertiary qualifications (eg. Health, science, social science) and/or demonstrated equivalent competency.
- Demonstrated experience in an organisation that conducts medical, health, disability or social research.
- Strong understanding of the 'lived experience' consumer and/or community members' contributions.
- Demonstrated experience in project management, including the capacity to manage projects on time, with a high degree of independence.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to lead the generation of reports and funding proposals, and give presentations.
- A strategic thinker who enjoys grappling with complex scientific, organisational, and political problems.
- Highly organised and capable of managing a complex and dynamic workload with strong emotional quotient.

ABOUT GARVAN

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an independent Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Sydney, delivering scientific and clinical impact on a global basis and in partnership with organisations that share our vision. We are proud to be one of Australia's largest and most highly regarded MRI's.

Our vision is global leadership in discoveries to impact and our enduring purpose is to impact human health, by harnessing information encoded in our genome.

We seek to see our world-class discovery research achieve life-changing impacts, not only for individual patients with rare diseases, but for the many thousands affected by complex, common disease.
- Garvan promotes a diverse workplace and is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. We are always looking for culture 'add', not culture 'fit' and are building diverse teams with great sets of complementary styles and skills to help deliver our important work effectively._

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