Senior Manager, Program Operations And Partnerships

Senior Manager, Program Operations & Partnerships

Join the Health Translation Queensland (HTQ) Executive Team as the Senior Manager, Program Operations & Partnerships, where your leadership will shape the future of health and technology innovation. Working closely with the Executive Director, you'll drive the implementation of HTQ's strategic plan and lead the development, delivery, and evaluation of high-impact programs and operations.

This pivotal role offers the opportunity to foster strong partnerships across the HTQ network and beyond, ensuring collaborative success and operational excellence. As a key advisor to the Executive Director, you'll be instrumental in achieving the Board's strategic objectives to driving the translation of research into practice.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Strategic Leadership – Partner with the Executive Director to drive HTQ's strategic planning, program development, and performance monitoring across a dynamic multi-institutional network.
• Stakeholder Engagement – Build and lead strong relationships with national partners and stakeholders, including the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), other Research Translation Centres across Australia, to advance collaborative health innovation.
• Operational Excellence – Oversee operational delivery, governance, and financial management, ensuring alignment with UQ policies and strategic objectives.
• Team Leadership – Provide direction and support to professional staff, fostering a high-performance culture and leveraging the broader HTQ team's expertise.

About HTQ

Health Translation Queensland connects people and ideas to turn research and innovation into better health service delivery.

As a (NHMRC) accredited Research Translation Centre, we work across our partnership to build the capability of our research translation workforce and remove barriers to collaboration to accelerate research translation into clinical practice.

As HTQ is hosted by the University of Queensland on its Herston campus, a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave
• 17% superannuation contributions
• 17.5% annual leave loading
• Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times and a condensed fortnight.
• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family
• UQ Study for Staff
• Salary packaging options

About You

• Postgraduate qualifications in a relevant area and extensive relevant experience and management expertise; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
• Extensive senior management experience and demonstrated success in a university, government, hospital, or medical research institute setting (or equivalent).
• Superior written and verbal communication skills including demonstrated success in conducting consultations and high-level negotiations with key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience with preparing and delivering major reports, briefing documents and presentations to a broad range of audiences, including Executive and Board meetings.
• Experience in the financial, operational and people management of a complex organisation, ideally in a research and/or health environment.
• Highly developed time-management skills, self-motivation with demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team, and the ability to work under time pressure on multiple initiatives concurrently.
• Commitment to upholding the University's values, and with the outstanding personal qualities of openness, respectfulness and integrity.

The successful candidate may be required to complete a number of pre-employment checks, including right to work in Australia, criminal check, education check.

You must maintain unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Employer sponsored work rights are not available for this appointment.

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Dr Celia Webby, interim Executive Director at celia.webby@healthtranslationqld.org.au / 0439 549 215.

For application inquiries, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team at talent@uq.edu.au, stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.

Our strength as an institution lies in our diverse colleagues. We're dedicated to equity, diversity, and inclusion, fostering an environment that mirrors our wider community. We're committed to attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent. If you require an alternative method to submit your application due to accessibility needs or personal circumstances, please contact talent@uq.edu.au.

UQ is committed to a fair, equitable and inclusive selection process, which recognises that some applicants may face additional barriers and challenges which have impacted and/or continue to impact their career trajectory. Candidates who don't meet all criteria are encouraged to apply and demonstrate their potential. The selection panel considers both potential and performance relative to opportunities when assessing suitability for the role.

Applications close Sunday 21 September 2025, at 11.00pm AEST (R-55405). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled for week commencing 29 September.