Senior Program Manager

Position Details

• Fulltime | Fixed term until 31 July 2029

• Higher Education Officer Level 9 | $133,860 - $143,239 p.a.

• Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country (with the exciting opportunity to work across multiple campuses)

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About the Flinders HealthCare Centre

The Flinders HealthCARE Centre (FHC) is a multidisciplinary education, research, and healthcare facility located at the heart of Flinders Village and co-funded by the Australian Government and Flinders University. Scheduled to open in 2029, FHC will support the delivery of approximately 1,300 additional health graduates and up to 10,000 additional episodes of health and community care annually, bringing together education, research, and health and community services to enable new models of care, innovative use of technology, and transformative learning.

About the Program 

The Program supports the establishment and activation of the FHC, working across the Colleges of Health and Enablement (CHE), Medicine and Public Health (CMPH), and Human Sciences and Culture (CHSC). With support from central services, the Activation team is structured across four workstreams and five enabling streams to support the design of an innovative interprofessional curriculum, underpinned by a newly defined clinical services model and contemporary simulation practices. The Program will also focus on co-designing health services in partnership with government and industry partners.

About the Role

Join us as our Senior Program Manager for the activation of the Flinders HealthCare Centre, one of several new opportunities to join us as we build our Program Team, offering an exciting opportunity to be a part of a high performing team who are shaping the development of the iconic, state of the art Flinders HealthCare Centre.

As the Senior Program Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the governance structure and lead the day-to-day integrated program management of the Flinders HealthCare Centre Activation Program. This will include governance, reporting, risk and dependency control, and coordinated readiness for transition into the new facility. The incumbent will ensure that multiple workstreams and enabling streams, deliver in a coherent, sequenced and activation-ready manner. You will also have the opportunity to lead across the following meaningful outcomes:

• Developing, maintaining and communicating the integrated FHC Activation Program Plan, including scope, milestones, deliverables, resourcing assumptions and critical path

• Managing cross-workstream interdependencies, sequencing and milestone attainment; resolving conflicts and escalating constraints where required.

• Ensuring alignment across workstreams, enabling streams and sub-working groups through clear governance cadence, consistent artefacts and agreed decision pathways.

• Maintaining program-level risk, issue, dependency and decision registers, including owners, due dates, mitigations and status reporting.

This position makes a significant contribution to the University’s strategic plan to changing 10 million lives, Every One Matters, by 2035 through the strategic drive of Students First. This enabling role will play a pivotal part in the successful development and launch of the Flinders HealthCare Centre; a centre designed to offer modern, simulation training facilities that enhance student workforce readiness and strength their impact when entering communicates as practitioners.

About You

With a background in management, ideally within health, education, or the public sector, you bring experience in delivering complex programs. You demonstrate well-developed interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills, allowing you to collaborate effectively with staff and stakeholders across diverse organisational environments.

Your established project/program leadership skills effortless enables you to work autonomously, effectively prioritising tasks while meeting strict timelines and exercising sound judgement and problem-solving skills. Your strong strategic thinking, planning, and analytical capabilities enable you to make meaningful contributions to education and/or health-related projects. To be successful in this role, you will also be able to demonstrate:

• Postgraduate qualifications and relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of experience and/or education and/or training.

• High level experience and ability to collate and distil information from a wide range of sources and prepare and compile briefing papers, proposals, presentations and background documents.

• Experience in governance, risk and dependency management.

• A commitment to excellence and the principles of continuous improvement and ability to develop and deliver plans, measure outcomes and report on potential improvements for the future.

Life at Flinders
 

They say know your place.  We say you've found it right here.

Flinders University was founded on the belief that learning should open minds, celebrate individuality and give people the freedom to pursue their own point of view. That spirit lives on in our community of thinkers, doers and changemakers who challenge convention, and each other, to shape what comes next.

Rising to a challenge is nothing new for Flinders. During our first 60 years, we’ve navigated revolutionary changes in social and cultural norms, and have responded to transformative economic, environmental and technological developments. Through it all, we’ve continued to deliver for our students and community, innovating in learning and research to prepare graduates for the changing world they help create.

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them. So, why work at Flinders?

• Generous 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options

• Genuine flexible working arrangements

• Wide range of professional development activities and services, including exclusive staff study offers 

• Ranked in the top 2% of universities worldwide for research, where ninety per cent of Flinders research has been ranked at ‘world standard or above’ by Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)

• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff, as shown through our three SAGE Cygnet Awards

• Awarded the AHEIA Higher Education Award for Workplace Culture Excellence due to our commitment to wellbeing through our Thriving@Flinders staff wellbeing program

• Recognised as a Veteran Employer of Choice 

• Vibrant campus life and amenities including on campus health care services, gym and childcare centre (Bedford Park, South Australia)

Our Commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous Employment

Flinders University is proud to be an organisation that is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Workforce Strategy. Our vision is to be a preferred employer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  We are committed to progressing Indigenous advancement in education, research, employment, and wellbeing, and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all Flinders vacancies.

• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan 

• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy 

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

Appointment to this role is conditional on the completion of required pre-employment checks and declarations, each of which must be satisfactory to the University.

These include:

• Flinders University will require a current completed Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check and Gender Based Violence Declaration which is satisfactory to the University. The contract of Employment is conditional upon the receipt of these completed compliance checks. A disclosable outcome will not automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration. Each case will be assessed on its individual merits and relevance to the inherent requirements of the role.

• SA: Staff working in a health care setting are strongly recommended to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in line with the SA Health policy

How to Apply and Information

• To apply online, please visit the Jobs@Flinders website via the job portal: JR0000016861 Senior Program Manager

• You are required to submit a CV, along with a Suitability Statement as a separate document. This should be no more than 3 pages, and address the Key Position Capabilities of the Position Description

• Flinders University is committed to providing an environment where staff with disability are valued, supported and encouraged to participate fully and independently in the life of the University. If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you in the selection process, please advise the contact in the Recruitment Team so that we can make appropriate arrangements through [email protected] or call 08 8201 2383.

• For more information regarding this position, please contact Mailys at: [email protected] 

• For recruitment enquiries, please contact Alessia Rotolo

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At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

Flinders. Fearless.