Victorian Health Building Authority Hiring for Senior Executive Program Director at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Full Time

• Iconic Project delivering Melbourne Priority Precincts (MPP) program

Melbourne Priority Precincts (MPP)

The Melbourne Priority Precincts Project will deliver the biggest hospital project in Australia’s history, with upgrades to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Royal Women’s Hospital and the construction of a new Arden medical precinct connected by a new train line.

An outstanding career opportunity is open for an experienced Senior Executive who is a highly focused and motivated professional, passionate about leading a high-performing, experienced and close team for the delivery of this significant public infrastructure Project.

To successfully deliver this critical role, you will have extensive experience successfully delivering High Value High Risk infrastructure projects across the procurement and delivery phases. The Senior Executive Program Director will have strong demonstrated experience working effectively within a highly complex multi-disciplinary environment, communicating with a range of senior stakeholders, and delivering exceptional quality public infrastructure on time and on budget. The Senior Executive Program Director will lead a program of work which involves multiple multi-million- and multi-billion-dollar projects with substantial public scrutiny and impact which must be led with clear and effective leadership acumen and expertise.

You will need to be an established senior manager, with substantial health or major infrastructure development and delivery experience, PPP development and delivery experience is important as well as the knowledge and personal skills to deliver this complex MPP Program.

The Senior Executive Program Director will operate in a fast paced, performance focused workplace where you will be required to work with substantial autonomy and accountability.

The Senior Executive Program Director requires an individual with exceptional people and stakeholder management skills, with the role required to oversee, advise and collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams (including external consultants) and be the key Melbourne Priority Precincts (MPP) program interface with health service providers, ministers and industry (including the private sector Public Private Partnerships (PPP) market) as well as brief and advise other senior VHBA and Departmental executives (including CEO, Victorian Health Building Authority and the Deputy Secretary, Health Infrastructure). You will carry significant delegations on behalf of the Minister and Secretary under the Project Development and Construction Management Act 1994.

The successful applicant will translate the Department’s strategic objectives of ensuring all Victorians are able to access good health and wellbeing into the tendering, commercial and contractual requirements of VHBA’s PPP projects throughout all key phases of project development (planning, procurement, delivery, and operations).

The Senior Executive Program Director will act for VHBA in successfully directing the MPP program including directly overseeing Executive Project Directors and Project Directors in the strategic management of their MPP health infrastructure projects, managing large multi $Billion budgets for various stages of the program to deliver the largest hospital infrastructure project in Australia to date.

Are you:

• Highly experienced in successfully leading and delivering health or other infrastructure and High Value High Risk projects in politically sensitive environments?
• Exceptionally experienced leading high performing, multidisciplinary teams that deliver world-class outcomes for the community?
• An expert negotiator with strong experience in successfully engaging and negotiating with government stakeholders, PPP sponsors, builders, and other key industry players?
• Able to demonstrate highly developed and sophisticated project management skills?

Health Infrastructure Division;

The Health Infrastructure Division (HID) in the Victorian Department of Health (DH) is responsible for the planning, delivery, and oversight of infrastructure across the state in health, mental health and aged care portfolios. It includes the Victorian Health Building Authority (VHBA), driving the rollout of the Victorian Government’s multi-billion-dollar health capital projects. Working in partnership across government, health services, industry and the Victorian community, the HID delivers the critical infrastructure our health and wellbeing services need and ensures government investment supports jobs and economic growth.

Victorian Health Building Authority;

The Victorian Health Building Authority (VHBA) is a branch within the Health Infrastructure Division (HID) of the Victorian Department of Health (DH), responsible for the rollout of the Victorian Government’s multi-billion-dollar health capital projects. Our diverse projects span the health, mental health and aged care portfolios across metropolitan, regional, and rural settings and ambulance branches across Victoria. VHBA also provides technical support across engineering, property, asset management and environmental sustainability disciplines. Our priority is to provide innovative and sustainable infrastructure solutions that will ensure our health system meets the needs of all Victorians now and into the future.

Qualifications preferred

1. Tertiary qualified in architecture, engineering, legal, accounting, finance or other equivalent commerce or technical discipline, building or construction management is essential
2. A Project Management qualification (Tertiary degree in Project Management, active PMP, PgMP Certification or other related, nationally recognised accreditation) is required

Specialist expertise preferred

• Demonstrated significant experience 10+ years in leading complex, multi-disciplinary public infrastructure projects.
• Equivalent project delivery experience in the health sector will be highly regarded.
• Extensive Demonstrated experience in management of multidisciplinary projects and project teams
• Contractual, legal, commercial and legislative compliance management
• Advanced financial management including cost reduction and meeting budgets
• Quantitative and qualitative safety, environment and quality risk management
• Excellent client relationship and stakeholder management
• Management of projects over $1Billion
• Experience in Construct Only, Design & Construct, Managing Contract, Alliance, Joint Ventures, Alliances & PPP Contract types

Delivering modern, fit-for-purpose health infrastructure draws on the best thinking and the most innovative solutions across design, engineering, sustainability and asset management disciplines. Working at the Victorian Health Building Authority (VHBA) is a chance to build a career in meaningful, life changing work that will make a difference to communities right across Victoria.

You will thrive in a work culture where we’re committed to bring the best out of each other, while delivering world class health and wellbeing facilities.

VHBA offer a hybrid flexible working approach incorporating remote working and our state-of-the-art office in Melbourne.

How to Apply

Please apply online through LinkedIn or a direct email to [email protected] submitting a cover letter and a current resume.

Vaccination

The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its workers and clients. As it is an essential element of any role within the department that employees be able to attend work onsite and to do so safely, employees are required to be up-to-date with their vaccinations against COVID-19 as a condition of their employment. This requirement applies unless they have a medical condition which means they cannot be vaccinated against COVID -19. Therefore, the department will ask any prospective employee, who has been identified as the preferred candidate for a role within the department, to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination status prior to any offer of employment being made. If a prospective employee has a relevant medical condition which means they cannot be vaccinated against COVID-19, they should contact the department to discuss their individual circumstances.

Applications close: Midnight Sunday 23rd July, 2023.

Remuneration Package: Senior Executive Service 3

$401,018 – $533,431 p.a. including employer superannuation