- Remuneration range $95,505 to $103,435 pa
- Part-time fixed-term appointment to 30 June 2027
- Ipswich campus
School of Health, Psychological and Medical Sciences
Do you want to help create a more inclusive future for healthcare? The Bridging Academia and Community for AOD Curriculum Transformation (BRIDGE) Project is bringing together educators, students and people with lived and living experience to address stigma in health education. Through collaboration, evidence and lived expertise, the project is developing practical resources that will help prepare future health professionals to deliver safe, person-centred and non-stigmatising care.
Who you are
You are a collaborative and values-driven project professional who is passionate about creating positive social impact. An organised self-starter, you enjoy bringing people together, coordinating moving pieces, and turning ideas into practical outcomes.
You understand the importance of listening to diverse perspectives and fostering inclusive, respectful and culturally safe environments. Whether you're building relationships with stakeholders, coordinating project activities, or translating complex information into meaningful resources, you're motivated by work that makes a genuine difference.
What you'll do
As a key member of the BRIDGE Project team, you'll coordinate a range of activities that support the design, development, implementation and evaluation of curriculum resources aimed at addressing stigma within health education. Working closely with educators, students and people with lived and living experience, you'll help ensure their voices and insights shape practical learning tools that can be embedded across health programs.
You'll coordinate project milestones, maintain documentation and reporting, facilitate stakeholder engagement activities, support resource development and testing, and contribute to ongoing evaluation and continuous improvement. Through your work, you'll play an important role in helping prepare future health professionals to deliver person-centred, respectful and non-stigmatising care.
What will help you succeed
Success in this role requires relevant qualifications and experience in project coordination, a combination of strong project management capability and a people-centred approach. Alongside your ability to coordinate complex activities, manage timelines and support curriculum initiatives, you'll bring the communication and interpersonal skills needed to collaborate respectfully with educators, students and people with lived and living experience.
You understand the importance of creating environments where people feel safe, respected, heard and valued. You are able to engage sensitively with people who may have experienced stigma, discrimination or marginalisation, and recognise the importance of lived and living experience expertise in shaping meaningful change. Experience working within trauma-informed, culturally safe, co-design, community-engaged or lived experience-led approaches will be highly regarded.
Most importantly, you are committed to fostering inclusive partnerships and ensuring that people with lived and living experience are able to participate confidently and meaningfully in research, consultation and curriculum development activities. Your ability to build trust, maintain respectful relationships and support genuine collaboration will be central to the success of the BRIDGE Project.
For further information about this role, please contact Dr Dolly Baliunas, Senior Lecturer (Public Health) via 3812 6203 or [email protected].
Building on its strengths as Australia’s leading regional university, UniSQ partners closely with its communities to drive innovation and create opportunity through education and research. Guided by our values of respect, integrity, and excellence, UniSQ’s Strategic Plan 2026–2030 sets a clear ambition: to be Australia’s most transformative university by embracing our regional identity, fostering inclusive learning and research environments, and delivering globally relevant outcomes with strong local impact.
The University offers a range of different ways of working and connecting across our physical and virtual spaces to meet the needs of our students, partners and community. We value diversity and strive to foster an inclusive environment that is underpinned by our values and champions, embraces and respects differences.
We support and encourage applications from all diversity groups. With an increasingly diverse workforce, we understand that careers may be placed on hold or limited throughout many life circumstances.
Find out more about UniSQ at www.unisq.edu.au.
To be considered for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Australia.
Reference Number: 0159_08/26
Location: Ipswich campus
Term: Part-time fixed-term appointment to 30 June 2027 (30.6 hours/week)
Salary: Total remuneration range $95,505 to $103,435 pa (includes salary range of $80,544 to $87,232 pa, employer super contributions of 17% and annual leave loading)
Closes: Tuesday, 8 September 2026 at 11:30 pm (AEST)
At UniSQ we are united by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Excellence, which guide our daily actions and decision-making. UniSQ is a child safe organisation.
As part of the University of Southern Queensland's commitment to fostering a safe, respectful and rewarding work environment and in compliance with our legal obligations, we require candidates to declare whether they have been investigated for an allegation of Gender Based Violence, or determined to have engaged in conduct that constitutes Gender Based Violence, during the course of their previous employment or in any legal process.
This information helps us meet our legal obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender Based Violence, and will be considered when determining a candidate's suitability for employment, so that we can keep our University community safe.
If you know that this role is right for you, please submit your current resume together with a two-page (maximum) statement, outlining your skills and experience relative to ‘Who we’re looking for’ in the position description.
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