Job description
Agency Department of Health Work unit NT Wide Services
Job title Executive Director Transport Logistics and Designation Executive Contract Officer 2
Warehousing
Job type Full time Duration Fixed for up to 4 years
Remuneration package $254,585 Location Darwin
Position number 45397 RTF 351767 Closing 19/07/2026
Contact officer Dr Munya Gwede, General Manager NT Wide Services on 08 8944 8210 or
[email protected]
About the agency http://www.health.nt.gov.au/
Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=351767
APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY
QUALIFICATIONS.
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with
disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss
this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.
Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the
OCPE website.
Primary objective
Provide strategic leadership to the delivery of NT-wide patient transport, specialist outreach, corporate travel services, and purchasing
and warehousing supply chain, to ensure delivery in a fiscally sustainable manner and according to standards of high performance.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Lead the development and delivery of contemporary policies, business practices and reporting relating to patient transport, specialist
outreach and corporate travel services to ensure they are efficient, sustainable and reflective of operational needs and support delivery
of the NT Regional Health Services, Service Plan.
2. Lead service delivery reform to transport services that results in improved fiscal and performance outcomes for both the NT Regional
Health Service and the NT Government, including establishment of the NT Government’s Charter Hub, and lead the development,
implementation and operational embedding of the Coordinated Retrieval Operations Centre (CROC) to strengthen coordination,
governance and performance across retrieval and patient movement pathways.
3. Lead complex procurement processes, negotiations and contract management to ensure NT Health obtains best value for money travel
services that meet patient needs, including responsibility for the expansion and rollout of the Health Procurement System into the Top
End Region (planning, stakeholder engagement, implementation, training, change management and benefits realisation).
4. Lead and manage a diverse and customer-focused team to deliver cost effective, timely and fit for purpose travel services for the NT
Regional Health Service and NT Government agencies and provide executive oversight of warehousing and NT Health’s end-to-end
supply chain operations (including inventory governance, warehousing operations, distribution and logistics, contract performance,
quality assurance and compliance).
5. Build a positive and collaborative working relationship across NT Health and more broadly across other NT Government agencies to
ensure service alignment to NT Health and cross-government initiatives and programs.
6. Promote and build organisational capability to support culturally safe regional and operational service delivery and practice.
7. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken to
ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.
8. Foster a positive workplace culture through exemplary leadership practices and role modelling behaviour.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Extensive leadership experience at the executive level within complex service delivery environments, with a proven record of achieving
results and leading high-performing teams.
2. Demonstrated experience in health patient travel and medical retrieval operations, including sound operational understanding of
retrieval coordination and inter-hospital transfer pathways.
3. Strong strategic planning, problem-solving and judgement, with demonstrated capability delivering projects and complex change end-
to-end (design, stakeholder engagement, implementation, training and communications, and benefits realisation).
4. Demonstrated success in financial and resource management, including delivering measurable business improvement initiatives and
improved fiscal outcomes.
5. Demonstrated experience leading complex procurement, negotiation, contract management and vendor performance, achieving value
for money and service outcomes.
6. Highly developed communication and influencing skills, including representing an organisation in senior forums, building productive
relationships, and working effectively with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
7. Tertiary qualification(s) in a relevant discipline combined with relevant senior executive experience, or an equivalent combination of
substantial relevant senior executive experience and education and training
Desirable
1. Recognised tertiary qualification in a relevant field.
Further information
Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice and
criminal history checks (a criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is relevant criminal history). The NTPS
Capability Framework applies to all NTPS employees. CF10 applies to this vacancy.
