National Project Director at St Vincent's Health Australia | AU | Rezi

National Project Director at St Vincent's Health Australia

National Project Director

St Vincent's Health Australia · AU

5 days ago

National Project Director

St Vincent's Health Australia · AU

5 days ago
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About the Role

Lead the planning, development, and delivery of major property, construction, and capital works programs across one of Australia's largest health and aged care organizations. Influence strategic decisions at an enterprise level by partnering with executive leaders, CEOs, CFOs, clinical leaders, and government stakeholders to deliver development initiatives that support the future of healthcare and aged care. Oversee projects that enhance healthcare facilities, improve patient outcomes, and support service growth across various healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning, development, and delivery of major healthcare infrastructure and capital works projects across the national portfolio.
  • Drive enterprise project governance, systems, processes, and delivery frameworks.
  • Oversee project feasibility, cost planning, design management, and development strategies.
  • Manage complex construction, refurbishment, redevelopment, and commissioning programs.
  • Ensure projects align with strategic priorities, operational objectives, and healthcare service requirements.
  • Lead stakeholder engagement across executive teams, hospital leadership, clinicians, consultants, contractors, and government bodies.
  • Provide financial oversight and management of capital expenditure, project budgets, and enterprise programs of work.
  • Identify and mitigate project risks relating to cost, quality, safety, delivery, and performance.
  • Negotiate contracts and commercial agreements to ensure risks are effectively managed and project objectives are achieved.
  • Drive value creation through proactive identification of growth opportunities, service improvements, and strategic investments.

Requirements

  • Accomplished project and infrastructure leader with a proven track record delivering large-scale property, construction, health infrastructure, or capital works projects in complex stakeholder environments.
  • Combines strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and operational excellence with the ability to navigate competing priorities and deliver outcomes that align with organizational objectives.
  • Comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels.
  • Recognized for ability to influence stakeholders, solve complex challenges, and drive project success.
  • Successfully partnered with Executive Leadership Teams, clinicians, hospital management, consultants, contractors, and government agencies, building trusted relationships.
  • Motivated by the opportunity to contribute to a purpose-led organisation whose facilities, infrastructure, and services directly impact patients, residents, employees, and communities across Australia.

Skills

  • Project planning
  • Development
  • Feasibility
  • Refurbishment
  • Reconfiguration
  • Construction delivery
  • Operational commissioning
  • Post-completion management
  • Strategic leadership
  • Commercial acumen
  • Healthcare infrastructure expertise
  • Project governance
  • Cost planning
  • Design management
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Financial oversight
  • Risk mitigation
  • Contract negotiation
  • Value creation
  • Contract management
  • Procurement
  • Quality management
  • Safety management

Location

  • Melbourne
  • Sydney
  • Brisbane

Work Type

  • Full-time
  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Minimum of 7 years' experience developing and delivering healthcare infrastructure projects.
  • Proven experience leading projects valued in excess of $10 million.

Education Level

  • Tertiary qualifications in Architecture, Project Management, Construction Management or a related discipline.
  • Project Management qualifications (highly regarded).

Benefits

  • Deliver projects with lasting impact
  • Help create the hospitals, healthcare facilities and environments that support communities across Australia.
  • Lead nationally significant initiatives
  • Oversee major healthcare infrastructure, redevelopment and construction projects that directly support patient care and service delivery.
  • Partner with influential stakeholders
  • Work alongside Executive Leaders, hospital executives, clinicians, government agencies and industry experts.
  • Drive strategic growth and innovation
  • Support investment, development and transformation initiatives that shape the future of health and aged care.
  • Join a values-led organisation
  • Build your career in an organisation guided by Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence, with a longstanding commitment to delivering better and fairer care.
  • Make a meaningful difference
  • Opportunity to help deliver the infrastructure, facilities and services that enable life-changing healthcare and aged care outcomes for generations to come.

About the Company

  • St Vincent's Health Australia is shaping a future health and aged care system that supports people with life-changing care, wherever and whoever they are.
  • Founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1857, St Vincent's is one of Australia's leading not-for-profit health and aged care organisations.
  • Our 30,000 dedicated people provide compassionate care through public and private hospitals, aged care residences, virtual care and services delivered at home across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.
  • Our vision is for every person to receive excellent and compassionate care through a better and fairer health and aged care system.
  • Together, we are focused on enhancing our impact, connecting care and transforming the system.
  • Our work is grounded in our values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.

Equal Opportunity

  • St Vincent's Health Australia welcomes people from all backgrounds and beliefs.
  • We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued and empowered to contribute their unique experiences.
  • We acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees.
  • As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.