About the College

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) is a member-based organisation whose principal role is the training, assessment and professional development of emergency doctors for Australia and New Zealand.

We are a specialist medical College of over 120 employees with a strong purpose, positive environment and a CEO and Executive leadership team who lead our commitment to supporting our membership, staff and values of Equity, Respect, Integrity, and Collaboration.

The Position

As a senior member of the Policy team, your work in advocacy and policy development will make a real difference to health system reform, with a core purpose of addressing systematic challenges within Emergency Medicine and influencing healthcare outcomes for vulnerable and diverse populations within Australia and New Zealand.

Some key focuses of the role include implementing and coordinating advocacy campaigns or policy relating mental health, in addition to public health and disaster medicine, and Indigenous health.

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in public policy, public health or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated high-level conceptual and analytical skills in developing policy and advocacy documents.
• Experience in finding and using data and research from a diverse range of disciplines (e.g. clinical sciences, epidemiology, health economics and political sciences) in policy development and advocacy.
• Extensive knowledge of policy, legislative and political processes as they relate to the health sector.
• Well-developed engagement and consultation skills including the ability to identify and liaise with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated planning, project management or campaigning experience.

Please note this is a full-time and permanent position, however, we are accepting part-time applications at 0.8FTE for the right candidate.

What's on Offer

ACEM offers excellent staff benefits including:

• Additional paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• Flexible work arrangements and rostered days off
• Health and wellbeing initiatives
• Active corporate social responsibility including Casual Friday Charity and Community Week
• Ongoing employee development and training

For further information, please contact Human Resources via email [email protected], using the subject line: Policy Lead enquiry via EthicalJobs, or via phone (03) 8679 8811.

Recruitment agencies, we appreciate your interest, but plan to fill this role ourselves.

ACEM is an Equal Opportunity Employer who promotes, embraces and values diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Māori are encouraged to apply.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of service and support to our members. With this in mind, please note that this role will be recruited in a virtual environment.

A position description is available below.