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HTQ is recruiting: Senior Manager, Program Operations and Partnerships

04 September 2025

About this opportunity

Join the HTQ Executive Team as the Senior Manager, Program Operations & Partnerships, where your leadership will shape the future of health and technology innovation. Working closely with the Executive Director, you’ll drive the implementation of HTQ’s strategic plan and lead the development, delivery, and evaluation of high-impact programs and operations.

This pivotal role offers the opportunity to foster strong partnerships across the HTQ network and beyond, ensuring collaborative success and operational excellence. As a key advisor to the Executive Director, you’ll be instrumental in achieving the Board’s strategic objectives to driving the translation of research into practice.

Key details:

• HTQ is hosted by The University of Queensland (UQ) - Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences: Join a university ranked in the world's top 50
• Full-time, fixed-term position through to 30 June 2027
• Base salary between $135,300 - $143,081 + 17% superannuation (HEW Level 9)
• Based at our Herston Campus
• Apply via the UQ Career Portal - UQ Careers number R-55405
  
• Application deadline: 21 September 2025, 11pm AEST.
  
• Interviews have been tentatively scheduled in the week commencing 29 September 2025.

Key responsibilities:

• Strategic leadership – Partner with the Executive Director to drive HTQ’s strategic planning, program development, and performance monitoring across a dynamic multi-institutional network.
• Stakeholder engagement – Build and lead strong relationships with national partners and stakeholders, including the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), other Research Translation Centres (RTCs) across Australia, and the Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA) – the peak body for RTCs, to advance collaborative health innovation.
• Operational excellence – Oversee operational delivery, governance, and financial management, ensuring alignment with UQ policies and strategic objectives.
• Team leadership – Provide direction and support to professional staff, fostering a high-performance culture and leveraging the broader HTQ team’s expertise.

For a full position description please contact talent@uq.edu.au.

About you

• Postgraduate qualifications in a relevant area and extensive relevant experience and management expertise; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training
• Extensive senior management experience and demonstrated success in a university, government, hospital, or medical research institute setting (or equivalent).
• Superior written and verbal communication skills including demonstrated success in conducting consultations and high-level negotiations with key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience with preparing and delivering major reports, briefing documents and presentations to a broad range of audiences, including Executive and Board meetings.
• Experience in the financial, operational and people management of a complex organisation, ideally in a research and/or health environment.
• Highly developed time-management skills, self-motivation with demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team, and the ability to work under time pressure on multiple initiatives concurrently.
• Commitment to upholding the University’s values, and with the outstanding personal qualities of openness, respectfulness and integrity.

The successful candidate may be required to complete a number of pre-employment checks, including right to work in Australia, criminal and education check.

Questions?

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Dr Celia Webby, interim Executive Director at celia.webby@healthtranslationqld.org.au or on mobile 0439 549 215.

For application queries, please contact talent@uq.edu.au stating the UQ Careers number R-55405 in the subject line.

How to apply

All applicants must apply via the UQ Career Portal (UQ Careers number R-55405).

Upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter summarising how your background aligns to the 'About You' section
• Resume

Applications close 21 September at 11pm AEST.