Job no: 543979
Work type: Casual
Location: Sydney, NSW
Categories: Administration
The National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health aims to improve health outcomes for people with intellectual disability.
We are seeking a Senior Project Officer with excellent research, synthesis and writing skills.
You will bring together findings from the Centres reports to inform advocacy to strengthen research capacity for inclusive intellectual disability health research.
You will use the Centre’s Strengthening Research Capacity Strategy as the framework for synthesising findings from recent reports including:
- Audit of Intellectual Disability Health Research Funding in Australia
- What is Important to Us in Health Research? Establishing National Health Research Priorities Through a Co-Design Process
- First Nations and Intellectual Disability Inclusive Research Report
You will develop clear, evidence-informed messages to support advocacy for:
- greater recognition of intellectual disability health as a research priority
- increased investment from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
- funding processes that support inclusive research
- meaningful involvement of people with intellectual disability in research.
This role will also:
- Monitor the delivery of projects and initiatives.
- Contribute to the development of project plans, schedules.
- Identify and provide solutions to project risks and issues.
- Liaise with project stakeholders to ensure project metrics including time, cost and quality are being met within defined deliverables and deadlines.
- Provide strategic and detailed project support and advice to project team and stakeholders.
- Ensure projects are managed consistently and adheres to UNSW governance requirements.
- Cooperate with all health and safety policies and procedures of the university and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the health and safety of yourself or others.
A person engaged is generally expected to have the following skills and experience:
- A relevant tertiary qualification and extensive project management experience.
- Proven experience in the development of project plans, objectives, documentation and demonstrated understanding of the project life cycle.
- Ability to influence stakeholders.
- Advanced level of computer literacy and skills in Microsoft Office applications and project related databases and management systems.
To submit an application for the role, please do so via the 'Apply Now' button. Please note, no applications will be accepted via email.
Aligned with UNSW’s focus on cultivating a workplace defined by safety, ethical conduct, and strong integrity preferred candidates will be required to participate in a combination of pre-employment checks relevant to the role they have applied for.
These pre-employment checks may include a combination of some of the following checks:-
- National and International Criminal history checks
- Entitlement to work and ID checks
- Working With Children Checks
- Completion of a Gender-Based Violence Prevention Declaration
- Verification of relevant qualifications
- Verification of relevant professional membership
- Employment history and reference checks
- Financial responsibility assessments/checks.
- Medical Checks and Assessments
Compliance with the necessary combination of these checks is a condition of employment at UNSW.
If you require any further information regarding the role, please contact Jane Lloyd j.lloyd@unsw.edu.au
Advertised: 23 Oct 2026 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 30 Oct 2026 AUS Eastern Daylight Time