Clinical Trial Program Manager

Monash University; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 124,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Monash University is inviting applications for Clinical Trials Manager to lead two major trials—STRAP and ISAAC—focusing on invasive streptococcal infections. You will manage end-to-end delivery, collaborate with hospitals, research institutes and international partners, and guide governance, reporting and regulatory compliance.

Bring clinical research expertise and robust project management to oversee budgets, ethics approvals, data quality and risk in multi-site environments, shaping

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of STRAP and ISAAC trials across multiple sites.
• Oversee start-up, site activation, protocol development, governance and reporting.
• Ensure ethics and regulatory approvals, data quality, safety monitoring and risk management.

Job description

Remuneration: $124,343 - $137,251 pa HEW Level 08 (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
• Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them

The Opportunity

Lead the delivery of two important clinical trials focused on improving the clinical and public health management of invasive streptococcal infections. As Clinical Trial Program Manager, you’ll take ownership of the end-to-end delivery of STRAP, an international adaptive platform trial, and ISAAC, an Australian multi‑centre trial, ensuring both studies achieve their objectives and contribute to better patient outcomes and evidence‑based healthcare.

Working with leading researchers, hospitals, research institutes and international collaborators, you’ll oversee all aspects of trial management, from start‑up, site activation and protocol development through to ongoing operations, governance and reporting. You’ll lead and develop a skilled project team while managing budgets, ethics and regulatory approvals, data quality, safety monitoring and risk, ensuring both trials meet Good Clinical Practice (GCP) requirements and are delivered to the highest standards.

Bring your clinical research expertise, strong project management capabilities and collaborative leadership style to a role with meaningful impact. You’ll build and maintain partnerships across diverse research settings, provide expert advice to investigators and governance committees, and navigate complex, multi‑site trial environments to deliver high‑quality research. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in advancing clinical knowledge and shaping approaches to the prevention and treatment of serious invasive infections.

About Monash University

At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.

We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.

Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.

In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.

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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at **************@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.

Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre‑employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.

Enquiries: Professor Katherine Gibney, ***************@monash.edu

Position Description:Clinical Trials Manager

Applications Close: Tuesday 10 November 2026, 11:55pm AEDT