• Build partnerships across health, academia, and industry
• Lead a health research centre with real community impact
• Drive innovation and research translation into practice
  Base Salary: From $145,745 plus 17% superannuation
  Position: Full Time, 3 year fixed term
  Location: Central Coast Clinical School, Gosford, NSW

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ABOUT THE ROLE

As Director of the CCRI Centre, you will lead strategic and operational activities to achieve the Centre’s goals. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading CCRI Centre operations, partnerships, and sustainability.
• Developing collaborative research programs in priority areas.
• Facilitating academic, clinical and industry partnerships across disciplines.
• Working closely with University and CCLHD research teams.
• Driving translational research with measurable community impact.
• Promoting innovation through industry engagement and commercialisation.

You will navigate a complex stakeholder environment and engage with partners such as HMRI, NSW Regional Health Partners, Primary Health Network, Central Coast Local Health District, other Local Health Districts and internal University units.
This full-time, three-year fixed-term role is based at the Central Coast Clinical School (Darkinjung land).

To be successful in this role you will bring:

• Postgraduate qualifications in a relevant health discipline and/or demonstrable experience working as a senior clinician, policy maker or manager in health policy, practice or research environment.
• Proven professional leadership qualities with demonstrable success in relationship management, research, innovation and translational research, attracting research funding in a health-related environment.
• Experience with transdisciplinary research, qualitative and quantitative research, and living lab methods including collaborative design-led consumer research and human-technology interaction.
• Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of the health and medical research environment in NSW and Australia, with expertise and experience in translating research evidence into policy and practice in health settings, including the development of multi-disciplinary teams and networks.
• Proven track record of taking research projects from conceptual design through to completion including translation into policy and practice that bring positive impacts on the health and wellbeing of people and communities.
• Experience of driving innovation in health and care settings through industry and community engagement and partnership with demonstrated end-to-end project management skills with a track record of successfully establishing priorities and managing all tasks through to timely completion with multiple internal and external stakeholders