Assistant Project Director, Property Transactions (Divestment)

NSW Health; St Leonards; On-site; AUD 154,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

NSW Health’s Health Infrastructure division seeks an Assistant Project Director, Property Transactions (Divestment) to drive disposal-readiness for surplus NSW Health properties. You will oversee due diligence, coordinate specialist consultants, and translate findings into practical recommendations for timely divestment decisions.

Reporting to the Project Director, Property Transactions, you will collaborate across acquisitions and commercial advisory projects while managing multiple projects

Qualifications

• Significant experience in property transactions and divestment.
• Experience across divestment and acquisition processes.
• Ability to coordinate specialist consultants and interpret their advice.
• Strong communication to present property issues, risks and opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Lead due diligence to support disposal readiness and governance.
• Coordinate investigations, risk assessments, and contractor reports.
• Develop site-specific disposal strategies and risk mitigation measures.
• Collaborate with HI team, NSW Health entities, councils and external advisers.
• Translate complex technical findings into practical, actionable briefs.

Skills

Due diligence

Stakeholder management

Property transactions

Risk assessment

Job description

Assistant Project Director, Property Transactions (Divestment)

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time
Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 4
Remuneration: $153,559 – $182,954 (plus superannuation and leave loading)
Hours Per Week: 38

About the opportunity Help turn a diverse portfolio of surplus NSW Health properties into market-ready opportunities. You’ll manage the due diligence that underpins disposal readiness - bringing together specialist investigations, risk assessment, clear advice and influential reporting to support optimal divestment decisions.

From land title and planning to valuation, environmental and contamination assessments, you’ll collaborate with specialist consultants and stakeholders and connect the findings to support informed and consistent outcomes. You’ll contribute to site-specific disposal strategies, identify practical risk mitigation measures and translate complex issues into clear briefings and governance documentation.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders across the HI team, NSW Health entities, government agencies, councils and external advisors to keep multiple projects moving within agreed timeframes, budgets and quality standards. Reporting to the Project Director, Property Transactions, you’ll combine a due diligence focus, with opportunities to collaborate across acquisitions and commercial advisory projects.

This is afixed term full-timeopportunityfor two years period. Remuneration will be determined with the successful candidate.

Please note that as Health Infrastructure is an organisation of NSW Health, the successful applicant must reside in NSW or be willing to relocate if appointed.

This recruitment may be used to appoint to similar future roles (ongoing or temporary), or to create a Talent Pool for roles that may arise over the next 18 months.

About you You’re a property professional who enjoys looking beneath the surface to identify value - connecting specialist advice, identifying risks and able to turn technical findings into practical recommendations to make a property disposal-ready.

With significant experience in property transactions, you’ll bring practical expertise across property divestment and acquisition, due diligence, the coordination of specialist consultants and the interpretation of their advice. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills will enable you to clearly present property issues, risks and opportunities and build effective commercial relationships across a broad range of stakeholders.

Comfortable working in a high-performance environment, you’re confident managing competing priorities, tight deadlines and multiple project interdependencies while maintaining quality, sound governance and accurate records under tight deadlines.

Sound judgement and a collaborative and solutions-focused approach will help you manage expectations, resolve issues and deliver consistent outcomes.

About us Health Infrastructure delivers sustainable and innovative infrastructure solutions to meet the health care needs of NSW communities now and into the future. We collaborate with government and industry to transform public health facilities across NSW. Outside of health we contribute longer term benefits to NSW communities including the creation of jobs and increased opportunities for local businesses.

About what’s important to us At Health Infrastructure, we are committed to cultivating a workplace culture where diversity, inclusion and flexibility is part of the norm. To find out more about Health Infrastructure’s values and ways of working, click here.

Applications close 11:59pm Wednesday 18 November 2026

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