Primary Health Care Solutions - Project Officer

Date posted: Wednesday 14 February 2024
Closing date: Friday 23 February 2024

To support the development and implementation of a new model of team-based care by enhancing the capability of primary health care nurses and their teams to improve health outcomes and prevent hospitalisations. Under the direction of the Program Manager, you will support day-to-day project delivery by coordinating resourcing requirements and supporting the project team. This project will implement strategies in accordance with the approved program funding and activity schedule, aligned with APNA’s advocacy priorities to build the capability and capacity of nurses who work in primary health care.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Regularly communicate and work with the Program Manager and project team members to meet the project activity plan, timelines, and key milestones to ensure the timely delivery of the program and support to APNA’s organisational purpose.
• Collaborate and consult with external organisational teams, subject matter experts and other stakeholders to achieve project aims and outcomes.
• Assist with recruitment of project participants for consultation.
• Organise venue, catering, renumeration for participation (where relevant), agenda and communications as needed to support engagement and consultations.
• Support engagement with the sector by listening to understand the perspective and concerns of all stakeholders. Triage concerns for management by the Program Manager.
• Support nurse participants in APNA’s programs and initiatives through project and administrative support as directed as directed by the Program Manager.
• Assist with Quality Improvement and Data Collection Frameworks - Support the management of feedback and data collection to support evaluation processes E.g. dissemination of survey instruments as required and support the collation of these for analysis.
• Provide a broad range of administrative support for the project team, including support with external stakeholder engagement and communications.
• Provide reports to the Program Manager as required.
• Liaise with other APNA teams as required.
• Comply with APNA’s policies and procedures.
• A person in this role may be directed to undertake tasks not included here, but which might reasonably be within their skills, knowledge, or experience.