Role type: Part-time (0.5–0.8 FTE); Fixed-term (12 months)
Faculty: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Salary: UOM 8; $125,191 - $135,504 p.a. plus 17% super
Faculty-wide sustainable healthcare leadership / connect research, teaching and hospitals / drive impactful climate and planetary health change
Faculty-wide sustainable healthcare leadership / connect research, teaching and hospitals / drive impactful climate and planetary health change
Investing in you – 17% superannuation, benefits package including salary packaging, health and wellbeing programs, discounted services, and professional development opportunities.
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Your next career opportunity
You will coordinate sustainable healthcare education, research and engagement across MDHS, shaping climate and planetary health practice.
You will work closely with leaders, students and partners to deliver projects with tangible health system sustainability outcomes.
What you will deliver:
Lead and coordinate sustainable healthcare education, research and engagement initiatives across all six MDHS Schools.
Manage planning, implementation and reporting for MDHS and MMS Sustainability, Climate and Health Strategies and projects.
Supervise student internships and small quality assurance or research projects, ensuring robust methodologies and meaningful outcomes.
Identify funding opportunities, contribute to grant and philanthropic applications, and support growth of sustainability teaching programs.
Represent sustainable healthcare priorities in Faculty forums, strengthening partnerships with hospitals, institutes and external stakeholders.
You may be a great fit if you:
Hold an undergraduate qualification in healthcare or environmental science; a relevant Masters is highly regarded.
Demonstrate strong project management capability, delivering complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives on time and within scope.
Apply rigorous quantitative and qualitative research methods to sustainability, climate change and healthcare policy or practice.
Engage confidently with academic, clinical and professional stakeholders, influencing outcomes without formal line authority.
Contribute to university teaching or curriculum, particularly in sustainability, planetary health or healthcare-related programmes.
Work independently in complex organisations, balancing competing priorities while maintaining high ethical and professional standards.
For further information please refer to the attached PD.
What we offer you!
We offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits to support your success and sense of fulfilment, including:
Build future financial security with 17% superannuation
Supportive flexible work arrangements underpinned by our commitment to inclusion and well-being
Career development opportunities, including access to a range of tailored programs, such as Academic Women in Leadership, and learning platforms including LinkedIn Learning
Progressive, considerate leave provisions to empower your work-life balance and well-being, including leading parental leave, gender affirmation leave, cultural leave, and menstruation and menopause leave.
Salary packaging and access to a range of discounted services including Bupa health insurance, and access to unique cultural and recreational benefits such as discounts for the Melbourne Theatre Company
Health and well-being services including a leading Employee Assistance Program
For more information check out our benefits page!
Your new team
You will join the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, a leader in health and medical education. MDHS is rapidly expanding its sustainability, climate and planetary health work across six Schools and partner institutions.
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