aps6 project officer.

Key Responsibilities:

Providing support to specific projects including:

• Undertaking risk management activities
• Maintaining project schedule and planning milestones
• Coordinating communications, including scheduling and documenting project meetings
• Managing administrative aspects of projects including project reporting, procurement, record keeping, financial support and logistics.

• Supporting the annual hospital cost collection pricing advice by:

• Preparing data specifications
• Supporting submission processes including data validation
• Supporting contract management
• Liaising with stakeholders
• Undertaking quality assurance processes
• Maintaining data security
• Reviewing and analysing outputs of the cost collections
• Reporting on results of cost collections

• Supporting the development and maintenance of costing standards for hospitals.
• Preparing agendas, procurement documents and meeting papers.
• Supporting the section with ad-hoc projects.
• Supporting the development of new costing methodologies, implementation and management of a range of costing development tasks.

Key Capabilities:

• Working to tight deadlines and responding quickly and flexibly to changing priorities with determination, confidence and attention to detail.
• Writing and communicating clearly to a high standard, in particular, the ability to write clearly and concisely about complex subject matters, including to general audiences on technical subjects.
• Showing initiative and demonstrating a resourcefulness to work both independently and collaboratively within a high-pressure environment, supporting a team with high workloads.
• The ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders, in both formal and informal settings, demonstrating well-developed interpersonal and oral communication skills.
• Strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to apply these when developing discussion papers or in support of new policy.
• The ability to evaluate the effectiveness of risk management and risk assessment activities.
• A familiarity with the National Health Reform Act 2011 and an understanding of the key pillars of activity-based funding, including counting, classifying, costing and pricing.

Desirable Experience:

• A working knowledge in a health-related field, accounting and finance.
• Project management or experience in data analysis and trend reporting would be highly desirable.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in a health, policy, or related field.
• Accounting and finance
• Project management

Eligibility: Candidates must be Australian citizens to be eligible to apply.

Benefits of Contracting with Randstad:

• Access to benefits platforms with discounts at major retailers
• 3 weekly pay runs
• Exclusive access to roles before they go to market
• Employee assistance programme, including counselling services

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