Senior Project Officer

Ready to lead meaningful digital and business improvement projects in Toowoomba? As a Senior Project Officer, you'll deliver initiatives that strengthen capability, improve services, and support better outcomes across a large regional health service. Join a collaborative team, work with diverse stakeholders, and help shape solutions that make a real difference.

What your day could look like

As a Senior Project Officer, you'll help deliver projects that strengthen services, systems, and ways of working across the health service. Working with a wide range of stakeholders, you'll turn ideas into practical outcomes that support teams, patients, and communities.

Every day, you'll contribute by:

• Leading multiple projects to deliver agreed outcomes on time, within budget, and to a high standard.
• Building strong relationships that support collaboration, engagement, and successful project delivery.
• Managing risks, priorities, and performance to keep projects on track and achieve results.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, enhance capability, and drive innovation.

Let's Talk About You

You're a confident and adaptable project professional who enjoys bringing people together to achieve shared goals. You communicate effectively, think strategically, and stay focused when managing competing priorities. You'll take pride in delivering meaningful improvements that create lasting value for staff, patients, and the community while demonstrating Compassion, Integrity, Dignity, Innovation and Courage.

Here's what will help you thrive in this role:

• Proven experience managing projects through the full project lifecycle.
• Strong skills in planning, reporting, budgeting, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and use sound judgement in a fast-paced environment.

You'll stand out from the crowd if you have project management, Agile, PRINCE2, or IT service management certifications, and/or experience delivering technology or service improvement projects.

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who is passionate about creating positive change, supporting others, and delivering outcomes that make a real difference.

Why Join Darling Downs Health?

At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless. 

Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.  

Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region. 

Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:

• Maximise your take‑home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety
• Access professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathways
• Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and collaboration.
• Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.

For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits

Your future is here. Where are you?

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.

Click “Apply Now” to submit your application and upload the requested documents.

Find out more about us!

Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:

www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

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