(HE06) $86,360 to $93,285 per annum plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

Fixed term, part time position available until March 2027.

Working alongside Project Researchers, the Project Manager provides study coordination and support to a number of research activities within The Hospital Research Foundation Palliative Care Project to ensure smooth and successful performance of the research programs.

The Project Manager will work with the research team and external stakeholders to manage the day-to-day running of the project, working autonomously to ensure timelines can be met, and coordinate and facilitate communication between Project Investigators and external stakeholder within community, healthcare, and policy organisations, whilst adhering to highest standards of compliance with ethical and university requirements. The complexity of this five-year research project, with five separate studies across multiple universities and research sites, requires someone with significant project management experience and expertise.

To be successful you will need: 

• Demonstrated experience in health-related project coordination, including working collaboratively with researchers and key internal and external stakeholders.
• High level written and verbal communication skills, including report writing, presentations, publications, and ethics applications.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, including the ability to prioritise work and work independently as appropriate.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work collegially as part of a team and with a wide range of stakeholder groups.
• High level competency in the use of a range of Microsoft Office applications.

This position requires a valid National Police Clearance & Working with Vulnerable Persons check.

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you a 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.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs

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.

Learn more at: health.adelaide.edu.au

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

Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button to be taken through to the online application form. Please ensure you submit a cover letter, resume, and upload a document that includes your responses to all of the selection criteria for the position as contained in the position description or selection criteria document.

Applications close 11:55pm, 20th May 2024.

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:

Jaklin Eliott
Associate Professor - School of Public Health
P: +61 (8) 83133855
E: jaklin.eliott@adelaide.edu.au

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The University of Adelaide is 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. 

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