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About the Role

The Senior Project Officer will assist with the development and implementation of projects in the Oncofetal Ecosystem Laboratory, providing management, ethics, and oversight to support program delivery. This role focuses on cancer research, spatial transcriptomics, project management, and grant writing.

Responsibilities

• Assists in developing and documenting project plans, ensuring project needs are clearly identified and translated into deliverables and timelines.
• Coordinates project activities across collaborating groups to ensure projects are conducted on time and on budget.
• Assists in reviewing, monitoring, and tracking progress towards project completion.
• Works with People Leader to coordinate changes in timelines, deliverables, and budget.
• Carries out hands-on experiments in the laboratory as and when required.
• Participates in meetings, facilitates discussions, shares results, and manages agendas, data presentations, and ideas for process improvement.
• Documents and communicates project status, deadlines, and blocking issues to People Leader.
• Maintains close communications with Lab Heads/Centre Heads/People Leaders to facilitate information flow between collaborating groups and answers basic questions.
• Tracks progress of key milestones.
• Assists with the management of relevant Human Ethics and project reports.
• Ensures appropriate communication with all project stakeholders.
• Initiates and facilitates project meetings.
• Tracks the financial status of projects.
• Assists with appropriate IRB.
• Assists with future financial needs of projects.
• Complies with Garvan’s workplace policies, especially the Work Health & Safety (WHS) Policy, and works in accordance with the WHS management system.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in program/project coordination/management, including the capacity to coordinate multiple projects on time and on budget, with a high degree of independence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to lead the generation of reports and funding proposals, and give presentations.
• Enjoys grappling with complex scientific and organisational challenges.
• Highly organised and capable of managing a complex and dynamic workload with strong emotional quotient, and strong relationship management skills.
• A research or clinical background in biomedical sciences or oncology with previous experience in clinical trials.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with all levels of staff and external contacts.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Must be able to use sound judgement to handle and prioritise a variety of tasks, and effectively anticipate and solve challenges.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and challenging work environment and respond to shifting priorities.
• Only applicants with full working rights in Australia are eligible to apply for this role.
• No VISA sponsorship is provided for this role.

Skills

• Cancer research
• Spatial transcriptomics
• Project management
• Grant writing
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Report generation
• Funding proposals
• Presentations
• Organisational skills
• Time management
• Judgement
• Prioritisation
• Problem-solving

Location

• Sydney

Work Type

• 2-year fixed-term
• full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 5+ years of experience in similar roles (highly desirable)

Education Level

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in project management and/or a related administrative discipline and clinical projects and biobanking (desirable)
• PhD degree in biology/life sciences (highly desirable)

Salary/Compensations

• Up to $120,000 + 12% super + salary packaging (depending on experience)

Benefits

• Generous salary packaging to save you income tax on your wages thereby boosting your monthly take home pay (max. $15,900 general expenses + $2,650 meals/accom)
• Ample opportunities for on-going training and development
• Stimulating, diverse and highly international research environment
• Flexible work arrangements e.g. start / finish times
• A range of additional leave types to meet your personal needs including cultural leave, conference leave, community service and study leave
• Discounted Health Insurance
• Lifestyle discounts with our community partners

About the Company

• Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an independent Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Sydney, delivering scientific and clinical impact on a global basis and in partnership with organisations that share our vision.
• We are proud to be one of Australia’s largest and most highly regarded MRI’s.
• Our vision is global leadership in discoveries to impact and our enduring purpose is to impact human health, by harnessing information encoded in our genome.
• We seek to see our world-class discovery research achieve life-changing impacts, not only for individual patients with rare diseases, but for the many thousands affected by complex, common disease.

Equal Opportunity

• Garvan promotes a diverse workplace and is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging.
• We are always looking for culture ‘add’, not culture ‘fit’ and are building diverse teams with great sets of complementary styles and skills to help deliver our important work effectively.