Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 4
Remuneration: 147653 - 175917 full-time equivalent base salary range (+12% super + 17.5% leave loading and salary packaging)
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ675844
Location: Network
Applications Close: Midnight on 15 July 2026
For role related queries or questions contact Matt Hou on
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At the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, every role helps children and young people live their healthiest lives.
As the largest paediatric health service in Australia, we care for thousands of children each year, in hospital and at home. Our people are united by compassion, collaboration and excellence in care.
What you'll be doing
The Senior Project Manager leads the planning, design, delivery and transition to operations of complex, multi-site digital health and ICT initiatives within the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (SCHN) spanning clinical and non-clinical systems, infrastructure, and capital redevelopment programs. The role provides expert project leadership and governance to deliver agreed scope, outcomes, and benefits within the approved time budget, quality standards, and risk parameters, establishing robust project (schedules, finances, risks/issues/dependence, change management, and benefits realization) and ensuring transparent reporting to executive and program governance.
Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, clinical and corporate stakeholders, eHealth NSW, Health Infrastructure, vendors, and statewide initiatives (e.g. the Single Digital Patient Record), the Senior Project Manager drives end-to-end delivery including requirements and design, procurement and vendor management, environment build and testing, go-live readiness, cutover, hyper care, and a smooth handover to business-as-usual (BAU) support.
The Senior Project Manager embeds effective change management and communication strategies to support adoption, maintains strong probity and safety standards, and cultivates a performance-driven, customer-focused culture aligned with NSW Health's CORE values to enable exceptional care and improved health outcomes through reliable, secure, and fit for purpose digital services.
Additional Benefits (where applicable): Flexible work opportunities, Salary packaging and meal entertainment benefits, accrued days off (ADOs), fitness passport, employee assistance program (EAP)
How to Apply:
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Relevant tertiary qualifications in ICT/Project Management (or substantial equivalent experience); formal PM credentials (PRINCE2, PMBOK, Agile) highly regarded. Demonstrated experience successfully delivering medium‑to‑large, complex digital health/ICT program, meeting time, budget, scope and quality objectives.
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Proven ability to lead, coach and manage performance across clinical, business, technical and vendor team. Fosters a high a high‑performance, accountable and collaborative culture that drives results.
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Demonstrated ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with clinical, operational, technical, vendor and government stakeholders. Strong negotiation and influencing skills at senior executive levels. Committed to upholding probity, transparency and ethical conduct in vendor management, balancing state-wide mandates with local priorities.
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Expertise in establishing and maintaining rigorous project/program governance frameworks including baselining, integrated scheduling, budgeting, dependency/risk/issue management, change control and re‑baselining. Delivers clear driven metrics and board‑ready reporting, while ensuring the tracking and realisation of benefits.
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Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with experience authoring high‑quality business cases, briefs, project plans and governance reports. Effective in delivering persuasive presentations to executives, boards, committees and large multidisciplinary stakeholder forums.
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In-depth understanding of ICT infrastructure and both clinical and non‑clinical systems; Leads the integration of complex solutions in healthcare environments applying ITIL and best‑practice service management. Ensures compliance with cybersecurity and information governance standards and defines acceptance/success criteria, oversees testing, cutover, remediation and transition to BAU.
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Proven capability to lead enterprise‑scale change initiatives and drive business process improvement in large, complex healthcare settings. Aligns initiatives with strategic outcomes and embeds measurable improvements in clinical and operational workflows.
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Advanced analytical and problem‑solving capability to synthesise complex information and provide evidence‑based recommendations; adept at managing competing priorities across dispersed sites; high proficiency with Microsoft Project, Visio and related delivery toolsets; effective in environments with emerging PM maturity.
Child Safe Standards:
SCHN is committed to maintaining a child-safe environment that respects and upholds the rights of children and young people, in line with NSW Health’s commitment to the Child Safe Standards. We aim to ensure that children and young people feel safe, supported, and included in their care. All current and prospective staff are expected to prioritise the safety, welfare, and well-being of children and young people, actively working to protect them from harm and abuse.
SCHN is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity, recognising that a diverse workforce strengthens our culture and enhances the care we provide to children, young people and their families.
Permanent NSW Health roles require Australian citizenship or permanent residency. Temporary visa holders may be considered where no suitable Australian citizen or permanent resident is identified.
Where required, overseas qualifications must be formally assessed by the Department of Education or relevant authority for recognition in Australia.
An Eligibility List may be created for future permanent and temporary full or part time vacancies.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply. We recognise the value of Aboriginal staff providing health care to Aboriginal children and families. For application support, visit the NSW Health Aboriginal Recruitment tool, Stepping Up to assist in preparing your application, or contact the SCHN’s Aboriginal Workforce Consultant at
[email protected]
For technical support please contact 1300 679 367
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