C-PLEx, delivered by Peach Tree Perinatal Wellness, is a national initiative focused on strengthening lived experience leadership, capability, education and workforce integration within perinatal and infant mental health (PIMH) systems across Australia.
Because the earliest years shape lifelong outcomes, we are building and supporting a lived experience (peer) workforce that improves how families are held, heard, and supported through pregnancy and the First 2000 days.
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the strategic planning and delivery of the C-PLEx national workforce development project through to June 2028.
This senior role reports to the CEO, and is responsible for end-to-end project delivery including co-production, stakeholder engagement, governance, consultation, workforce capability development, instruction design coordination, reporting, impact measurement and national dissemination activities.
You will work closely with lived experience leaders and project partners to deliver a high-impact national initiative within the PIMH specialisation.
- Hours: Part time, 19 hours per week
- Pay: SCHADS Level 6.1 – $58.36 per hour + super + salary packaging
- Contract: Fixed-term to June 2028
- Location: Flexible – Peach Tree Head Office is based in Brisbane (Nundah) but has Parent Wellbeing Centres throughout QLD. This role may be based at any of our Centres, work from home, or hybrid.
Key responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of the C-PLEx Project to June 2028
- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, budgets and reporting
- Ensure delivery against milestones, contractual obligations, budget, and quality standards
- Coordinate governance structures, including advisory groups, working groups, and national consultation processes
- Build and maintain collaborative relationships with government, community, clinical, academic and lived experience partners, as well as the broader Peach Tree team
- Facilitate co-design processes with stakeholders including lived experience representatives, clinicians, service providers and community partners
- Coordinate the refinement and expansion of the Perinatal Mental Health Lived Experience Workforce Capability Framework
- Work collaboratively with instructional designers, subject matter experts and lived experience contributors to develop high-quality education resources
- Promote ethical, meaningful and safe engagement of lived experience expertise across all project activities
- Lead monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and funder and governance requirements
Requirements
- Current Working with Children Check (Blue Card) or willingness to obtain
- National Police Check
- Whooping Cough vaccination
- Willingness to travel interstate, including attendance at national convenings and stakeholder meetings (as required)
We encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and lived experience. You don’t need to meet every requirement to apply.
- Project or program management experience
- Strong understanding of lived experience workforce development, co-production principles, and trauma-informed practice
- Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
- Excellent written communication (reports, funding documentation and strategic communications)
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes
- Commitment to inclusion, equity and meaningful lived experience leadership
- Cert IV in Training & Assessment (desirable)
- Experience in perinatal and infant mental health, peer workforce development or mental health sector (desirable)
- Experience working with educational design, workforce capability frameworks or vocational education systems (desirable)
- Flexible, family-friendly, part time work with genuine work-life balance
- Salary packaging benefits up to $15,900, plus an additional $2,650 for meals and entertainment expenses
- A supportive, values-led workplace grounded in lived experience and trauma-informed principles
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support
- Portable long service leave (QLeave)
- Discounts & cashback on everyday essentials (groceries, petrol, and more) through Employment Hero
Apply now by submitting your resume and a brief cover letter explaining what draws you to this work, how you understand lived experience practice, and what strengths or perspectives you would bring to it.
Applications close on Sunday 5th July, but we’ll be shortlisting on a rolling basis.
We value everyone who expresses interest in joining our team and aim to respond to all applicants by the end of July. If you have questions in the meantime, please reach out to Zoe (HR Coordinator) at [email protected].
Peach Tree is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, including people of all genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ individuals, and those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
