Work Type: Fixed-term - Part-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Health and allied health
Location: Melbourne - Northern suburbs
Reference: 4071
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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Discovery & Innovation Unit
The Discovery & Innovation Unit provides organisational leadership, governance, and operational support for all research activity conducted at the health service. We ensure research across the organisation meets the highest standards of ethical conduct, scientific integrity, legal compliance, and accreditation requirements. We oversee research ethics and governance, contracts, research agreements, clinical trials coordination, research integrity, and compliance reporting functions.
Through collaboration with the clinician-researchers, research partners, universities, industry sponsors, and government bodies, the Discovery and Innovation Unit plays a central role in enabling safe, high-quality, and impactful research that advances patient care, clinical practice, and scientific discovery.
We are committed to fostering a thriving research culture that supports innovation, engages and protects research participants, and builds research capacity for the future.
About the role
As the Clinical Research Director, Discovery & Innovation Unit, you will:
About you
You will be someone who has a demonstrated commitment to ethical leadership and to fostering a culture of research excellence, transparency, and compliance in a public health service context. You will further bring with you:
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you have any queries about this opportunity or require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to: Agapi Elias, Executive Assistant to Cameron Goodyear – Deputy CEO/Chief Operating Officer, at [email protected] or 03 9496 5188.
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Wednesday 15 October 2025