• Parkville/WFH location | Onsite parking + close to public transport
• Part to full time, ongoing position | 0.8-1.0 considered
• Oversee a large scale Clinical Quality Register | Lead a small team

About Orygen

Orygen is Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health and the largest translational research organisation dedicated to youth mental health in the world.

For over 30 years, Orygen has led groundbreaking early intervention and developed evidence-based models of care to improve the mental health outcomes of young people aged 12-25.

About the job

The Program Manager will be responsible for setting up and overseeing expansion of a large-scale Clinical Quality Registry (CQR) project collecting data on young people with psychosis, establishing data linkage to other datasets and developing training materials and risk prediction tools.

Reporting to the Professorial Fellow, Early Psychosis you will:

• Lead project delivery — Manage timelines, budgets and delivery across four key work packages, ensuring smooth execution and problem‑solving.
• Oversee research operations — Coordinate governance groups, ethics/governance submissions, reporting and research management systems.
• Supervise project staff — Provide leadership and support to registry, implementation, communications and lived‑experience team members.
• Engage stakeholders — Maintain strong relationships with funders, partners and internal teams, ensuring clear communication and expectations.
• Support organisational outputs — Contribute to publications, assist with funding applications and uphold organisational values.

Skills and experience

The following criteria must be met for consideration for this position:

• Tertiary qualifications in psychology/health sciences or related fields plus significant relevant experience or equivalent combination of relevant experience and education/training.
• Proven ability to set up, manage and deliver complex health projects, including ethics and governance.
• Skilled in multitasking, risk management, budgeting and use of key software tools.
• Effective communicator with experience supervising staff and working across multidisciplinary teams.
• Highly organised, responsive and collaborative, able to manage competing priorities in fast‑moving environments.

Benefits

• Salary up to $125,000 pro rata commensurate with skills and experience + 12% superannuation and $15,900 in NFP salary packaging + $2,600 meals and entertainment card.
• Embrace the freedom of a hybrid work model, combining remote work with on-site collaboration.
• Make a real impact on young people in a dynamic, youth-centered environment.
• Work in a state-of-the-art facility co-designed with young people to advance youth mental health.
• Support Orygen's mission for youth mental health and contribute to positive social change.

How to Apply

If you’re ready to make a difference in youth mental health and be part of a collaborative, innovative team, apply now.

For the full position description, visit Program-Manager-AEPCC-May-26.pdf.aspx

This is part to full time (0.8-1.0 considered) ongoing position.

Applications will close on the advertised closing date, unless a suitable candidate is found sooner.

Before applying at Orygen, it’s important to understand that you may encounter sensitive information related to mental health as part of your work. Being aware of this and how it could affect you is essential in deciding if this is the right opportunity for you.

Orygen is committed to providing diverse, equitable and inclusive environments for Staff and anyone connected to Orygen. We strive to continue building a culturally safe workplace where our values underpin the way we work and our commitment to First Nations people of Australia, young people and their families, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ people and CALD communities. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people.

Orygen is a child-safe organisation and is committed to promoting and protecting the safety and well-being of all young people and embedding safeguarding practices into all our programs and services. All employment appointments are subject to holding a valid working with children check and successful police check.