À propos de ce poste Manager, Sustainable Healthcare chez University of Melbourne
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.
The University of Melbourne
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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.
Be Yourself
The University of Melbourne is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a child-safe organisation. The diversity of our community enriches us all, and we are committed to creating an inclusive and fair workplace where everyone is valued, respected, and empowered to succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. Discover more about Diversity and Inclusion at UniMelb.
We're committed to a barrier-free recruitment process and ongoing workplace support, providing adjustments throughout. We warmly encourage applications from people with disabilities. Learn more about how we support an accessible recruitment process.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
We aspire to be the University of choice for Indigenous Australians. Visit our Indigenous staff page to learn more about our investment and support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff.
Indigenous applicants are encouraged to connect with our Indigenous Employment & Development team at korin-korin@unimelb.edu.au.
Application essentials:
- Visit "apply with us" to learn more about the process, including tips and FAQs.
- You must have current valid work rights for Australia. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
- A Working with Children Check is required for all positions. If successful, we will guide you through the process and reimburse you.
- Please upload your resume and a cover letter outlining your interest and experience as part of the application process.
- Please upload your responses to the Selection Criteria, found in the Position Description. Applicants should provide a brief response to each key selection criterion (dot points are preferred). Learn more about responding to Selection Criteria
Want to know more?
- For queries related to this specific position, contact Forbes McGain at forbes.mcgain@unimelb.edu.au
- For questions related to our recruitment process email Tara at hr-careers@unimelb.edu.au
- For recruitment adjustments contact Kim Groizard on +61 3 9035 3218 or at hr-careers@unimelb.edu.au (subject: 'Recruitment Adjustments').
Apply today, and join a community that’s shaping the future.
Applications close: 15 November 2026 11:55 PM; Melbourne time zone.
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