National Research Project Lead (Part‑Time, 12 Months)

Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI); Melbourne; On-site; AUD 114,000 - 123,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging options

Part-time contract

World-class campus

Professional development

Inclusive workplace

Meaningful work

Job summary

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) invites applications for Senior Project Officer to lead a national MRFF-funded data infrastructure project detecting cerebral palsy early from infant movement videos. Based at Melbourne, you’ll manage day-to-day activities, progress reporting and cross-institution collaboration.

You’ll support governance committees, handle budgets and multi-site ethics, coordinate partners, and ensure timely achievements across sites.

Qualifications

• A tertiary qualification in a relevant field, such as health sciences, information or data management, public health or project management.
• Project management experience: Experience managing multi-site research projects in the health or university sector, including planning, monitoring and evaluation (or an equivalent mix of training, education and experience).
• Budget oversight: Experience monitoring project budgets and expenditure, including subcontracts, agreements or in-kind contributions involving external organisations.
• Ethics and governance: Experience preparing and maintaining multi-site human research ethics and site governance submissions, and providing secretariat support to committees, including agendas, minutes and tracking actions with senior stakeholders.
• Communication: Strong interpersonal skills, with experience communicating and negotiating with a wide range of stakeholders and organisations, plus advanced Microsoft Office skills.

Responsibilities

• Project management: Run the project day to day, maintaining the project plan, milestone schedule, deliverables register and risk register against the MRFF grant agreement.
• Governance: Set up and support the steering and advisory committees.
• Budget: Monitor and manage the project budget, track expenditure across sites and prepare financial reports.
• Ethics and research governance: Prepare and maintain multi-site ethics applications, amendments and reports under the National Mutual Acceptance scheme, plus local site approvals.
• Collaboration: Act as the central point of contact for project partners, coordinating meetings and communication, and support the development and execution of collaboration agreements with MCRI Research Contracts, Legal and partner institutions.

Skills

Project management

Multi-site coordination

Governance oversight

Budget monitoring

Stakeholder communication

Education

Tertiary qualification in health/science/data management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) invites applications for Senior Project Officer to lead a national MRFF-funded data infrastructure project detecting cerebral palsy early from infant movement videos. Based at Melbourne, you’ll manage day-to-day activities, progress reporting and cross-institution collaboration.

You’ll support governance committees, handle budgets and multi-site ethics, coordinate partners, and ensure timely achievements across sites.