Senior Contracts Performance Officer – NQ Health Priorities

Date posted: Thursday 05 January 2023
Closing date: Friday 20 January 2023

NQPHN is looking for a Senior Contracts and Performance Officer – NQ Health Priorities to join the team in their Cairns, Townsville, or Mackay office.

The role

The Senior Contracts and Performance Officer – NQ Health Priorities has responsibility for the management, administration, and performance of Commissioning contracts. This role plays a key part in the Commissioning Cycle and requires active collaboration across all Commissioning functions to be successful.

This includes:

• Providing operational support across the Commissioning portfolios to ensure the effective management, administration, and performance of contracts.
• Working in collaboration with other Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN) functions in the design, management, monitoring, and evaluation of contracts to ensure services are delivered effectively to improve outcomes and meet local needs.

The successful candidate will possess:

• tertiary qualifications in a health related or human services discipline and three years’ experience in a similar role within a medium to large health service
• demonstrated understanding of health commissioning processes, health service design, and delivery in a community environment
• demonstrated ability to provide comprehensive support to the administration, management, and performance of contracts
• demonstrated ability to develop rapport and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• demonstrated ability to prioritise and meet deadlines in a high demand work environment
• highly developed interpersonal, communication, influencing, partnering, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills, particularly in relation to community and stakeholder engagement within the health sector
• demonstrate skills in dealing with confidential and sensitive information in a professional manner
• self-sufficiency in the use of information technology; Microsoft Office Suite (e.g. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

If you are looking for the opportunity to be part of a passionate and driven team and contribute to achieving our mission of ‘Northern Queenslanders live happier, healthier, longer lives,’ we’d love to hear from you.

NQPHN aims to be an employer of choice for Indigenous Australians, and we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply for this role.

To view the position description, please click here.

Your application should include:

• cover letter including response to the key selection criteria (no more than two pages)
• your resume.

To submit an application for this position, please send your application to recruitment@nqphn.com.au

Applications close Friday 20 January 2023 at 5pm.

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