Job Description

Head of Projects
HS10 - $171,043 (new EBA) plus super and benefits
Full-Time Ongoing
Fairfield Based

About Us
Forensicare is Victoria’s specialist provider of forensic mental health services, supporting consumers across secure inpatient and community settings.
Our work is complex, high-impact and deeply rewarding—powered by a growing focus on digital capability, innovation and data-informed care.

About the Role

Reporting to the Executive Director, Projects & Infrastructure, the Head of Projects will provide senior leadership and oversight across a complex program of work, ensuring initiatives are planned, governed and delivered in line with organisational priorities, safety requirements and service readiness expectations.
This role operates with a high level of autonomy and works closely with executive leaders, clinical partners and corporate teams to ensure the successful mobilisation of new services within a live hospital environment.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead and oversee the planning and delivery of various enterprise-wide project activities
• Translate strategic planning into operationally ready services
• Establish and maintain clear governance, assurance and reporting arrangements
• Oversee project sequencing, interdependencies, risks and resourcing
• Provide executive level advice on delivery status, risks and mitigations
• Support workforce mobilisation and service commencement activities
• Ensure projects operate within approved financial, procurement and governance frameworks
• Lead and assure high impact initiatives to ensure safe, timely delivery

About You
You are a senior project leader with a strong track record delivering complex programs in regulated or service critical environments. You bring a pragmatic, outcomes focused approach and are comfortable operating at executive level to resolve issues and drive delivery.
You will bring:
• Tertiary qualifications in project management, business, finance or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Extensive experience leading large scale, complex programs or portfolios
• Strong governance, assurance and risk management capability
• Commercial and financial acumen, including oversight of budgets and procurement
• Highly developed stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• Experience in health, government or complex service delivery environments (desirable)

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• A culture where people matter.
• Excellent supervision and investment in the skill development of all our team members.
• Well defined career pathways existing across our Directorates with multi-disciplined Teams.
• Salary Packaging Options available – Mortgage, Rent, Car, Expenses
• A leading, multi-faceted approach to safety, with unparalleled strategic, practical, individualised and team-based supports to minimise risks and fear and maximise safety and security, underpinned by our workplace health and safety strategy.
• Celebration and reward for good performance, through employee recognition.
• Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
• A mental health and wellbeing program providing psychological, peer support and critical incidence response programs.

Eligibility
• Influenza and Immunisation Evidence
• This position is subject to a Police Check

Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Forensicare promotes our guiding principles of RESPONSIVENESS, INTEGRITY, IMPARTIALITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPECT, LEADERSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.