• Stakeholder engagement experience
• Superior interpersonal, written, facilitation and negotiation skills
• In-depth understanding of Australian healthcare system and QUM
• Experience implementing quality improvement programs

If this is you, we would love to hear from you!

• Based in Sydney or Melbourne
• Full time, maximum term contract ending 30 June 2022

Our mission

Independent, evidence-based and not-for-profit, we help people make the best decisions about medicines and other medical choices to achieve better health and economic outcomes.

We provide consumers and health professionals with practical tools and information about medicines, health conditions and medical tests. Our vision is to be an innovative change leader, trusted for our objective, collaborative and evidence-based approach to medicines and other medical choices.

Find out more at https://www.nps.org.au.

Who we are looking for

We believe it's important to be excellent at what we do and to recognise the skills and experience we all bring. Together we create an energy that values these different skill sets. Our people are passionate about our mission and are invested in our values, so you should be too. We believe that cultural fit is essential to success. These are our values, and they influence how we work together and how we reward our people.

• Courage - we have the courage to think and do things differently for a better future.

• Customer centricity - we meet the needs of our customers by listening, responding to feedback and adding value.

• Collaboration - we seek connections, share learnings and help each other succeed.

• Integrity - we are ethical, honest, transparent and open-minded.

• Accountability - we do what we say we will do.

What you’ll be doing

NPS MedicineWise has established an excellent reputation for our work in programs, products and services to improve the quality use of medicines and medical tests in Australia. This role, internally referred to as Design Lead, works closely with the Design and Innovation Manager, Medical Advisors and others to gather health professional and consumer input to the design of NPS MedicineWise programs, products and new business.

The Design and Innovation team inputs into the early development of many NPS MedicineWise products and services. This includes scoping multi-faceted education and behaviour change programs, facilitating the ongoing development of NPS MedicineWise products and services, and facilitation of new business design.

The role will work in close collaboration with a range of internal teams and various external stakeholders (such as committees) to assist in design of solutions. You will lead and contribute to various aspects of the design process, including (but not limited to) environmental analysis, project management, requirements gathering, facilitation of stakeholder input (internal and external), contract and relationship management.

What you will need

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant health discipline such as health promotion, public health or social sciences (or equivalent employment experience).
• Minimum of five years’ experience in the development and delivery of community or health programs
• Information seeking and appraisal skills, including well developed information retrieval skills (database and literature searching).
• Experience in application of quality improvement or knowledge translation principles.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement behaviour change programs.
• Demonstrated understanding and sensitivity to healthcare issues.
• Experience in working effectively at a state or national level.
• Sound report writing skills.
• Superior interpersonal, written and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work as part of a multi disciplinary team and to be self-directed.
• Well developed initiative and ability to balance competing priorities.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft Office and web-based strategies.
• A safe home office set up.

What we offer

• Salary packaging
• Extra leave during Christmas and New Year
• Flexible working arrangements
• Employee assistance program

Help make Australia more medicinewise.

For a full position description which outlines the specific role requirements, please visit our website.

We are committed to achieving a diverse workforce and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for all our positions.

Contact: Rawa Osman on 02 8217 8649 for more information.

No agencies please.

You must be eligible to work in Australia. If you are successful for this role, you will be required to conduct pre-employment checks, including a Criminal History Check.