Principal Consultant, Advisory and Delivery Services

UnitingCare Queensland; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Salary packaging benefits

Recognition and rewards platform

Parental leave 12 weeks

Diversity and inclusive leave

Job summary

UnitingCare Queensland is seeking a Principal to lead advisory and delivery services, shaping transformation across hospitals, aged care and community programs. You will manage executive-level engagements, mobilise cross-functional teams and deliver sustainable outcomes from scoping to handover.

You will mentor Senior Consultants and Consultants, align with senior leaders, and embed rigorous delivery methods across the advisory function.

Qualifications

• Extensive management consulting experience, ideally at senior level within a consulting firm or mature internal advisory function.
• Demonstrated success leading complex consulting, transformation and project delivery engagements from scoping and mobilisation through to implementation and handover.
• Strong understanding of health, aged care or broader human services sectors, including clinical, regulatory and commercial drivers.
• Strong project leadership capability, with ability to bring structure, momentum and sound judgement to complex environments.
• Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills, with the confidence to partner with senior leaders and navigate competing priorities.
• Proven experience leading, coaching and developing consultants or multidisciplinary project teams.
• A relevant tertiary qualification, or equivalent senior advisory and project delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of complex advisory engagements and critical projects, taking work from initial scoping and mobilisation through to implementation, benefits realisation and handover.
• Partner with business leaders across Hospitals, BlueCare, Lifeline Queensland, Family and Disability Services and corporate functions to understand priorities, shape the right approach and deliver practical, sustainable outcomes.
• Mobilise and lead multidisciplinary teams, providing the direction, structure and delivery discipline needed to maintain momentum and achieve results.
• Bring together consulting, project delivery, service design and change expertise to deliver initiatives across diverse clinical, care, community and corporate environments.
• Translate complex analysis into clear recommendations, executive briefings, Board papers and practical implementation roadmaps that support informed decisions and action.
• Lead and develop Senior Consultants and Consultants, while strengthening the methods, standards and capability of UnitingCare’s Advisory and Delivery Services function.
• Contribute to building the capability, methods, frameworks and standards of UnitingCare's Advisory and Delivery Services function.

Skills

Senior leadership

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Change management

Consulting expertise

Team leadership

Education

Tertiary qualification

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Use your consulting skills to make a meaningful difference with us

What if your next consulting engagement was not about delivering a recommendation and moving on, but helping improve services that people and communities rely on every day?

Principal, Advisory and Delivery Services

you will lead high-priority transformation and project delivery engagements across one of Australia’s largest not-for-profit organisations. Partnering with senior leaders across hospitals, aged care, community services and corporate functions, you will help shape responses to complex business challenges and lead critical projects from scope through to implementation and handover.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for an experienced consultant who can move confidently between the executive table, project teams and frontline service environments. You will combine strategic thinking, consulting expertise and disciplined project delivery to move important initiatives from ambition to implementation.

Central to your success will be building trusted relationships with leaders across the organisation, understanding their priorities and working alongside them to deliver practical, sustainable outcomes.

You will also lead and develop a talented team of Senior Consultants and Consultants, strengthening UnitingCare’s internal advisory and project delivery capability.

Please note, this position is full-time, based onsite at our corporate office. Travel to service locations will be required.

Your part in our UnitingCare team:

• Lead a portfolio of complex advisory engagements and critical projects, taking work from initial scoping and mobilisation through to implementation, benefits realisation and handover.
• Partner with business leaders across Hospitals, BlueCare, Lifeline Queensland, Family and Disability Services and corporate functions to understand priorities, shape the right approach and deliver practical, sustainable outcomes.
• Mobilise and lead multidisciplinary teams, providing the direction, structure and delivery discipline needed to maintain momentum and achieve results.
• Bring together consulting, project delivery, service design and change expertise to deliver initiatives across diverse clinical, care, community and corporate environments.
• Translate complex analysis into clear recommendations, executive briefings, Board papers and practical implementation roadmaps that support informed decisions and action.
• Lead and develop Senior Consultants and Consultants, while strengthening the methods, standards and capability of UnitingCare’s Advisory and Delivery Services function.
• Contribute to building the capability, methods, frameworks and standards of UnitingCare's Advisory and Delivery Services function.

What makes a difference for us?

• Extensive management consulting experience, ideally gained at a senior level within a consulting firm or mature internal advisory function.
• Demonstrated success leading complex consulting, transformation and project delivery engagements from scoping and mobilisation through to implementation and handover.
• Strong understanding of the health, aged care or broader human services sectors, including their clinical, regulatory and commercial drivers.
• Strong project leadership capability, with the ability to bring structure, momentum and sound judgement to complex and changing environments.
• Exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills, with the confidence to partner effectively with senior leaders and navigate competing priorities.
• Proven experience leading, coaching and developing consultants or multidisciplinary project teams.
• A relevant tertiary qualification, or equivalent senior advisory and project delivery experience. Experience in health, aged care, human services or another regulated environment will be highly regarded.
• Confidence to satisfy the relevant probity checks required by legislation or policies.
• Nationally Coordinated Police Check.
• Right to Work in Australia.

What makes a difference for you?

The opportunity to be part of the second-largest Queensland employer who has been leading by example for more than 100 years. Joining our team, you’ll be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. We’re a proud not-for-profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital.

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance
• Access to salary packaging, meal and entertainment benefits - up to $15,900 per year tax free as well as up to $2,650 of your pre-tax income to pay for meal and entertainment benefits. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via the following link: Salary Packaging Explained
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months’ service, in addition to the government scheme
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
• Career development opportunities to challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

Child safe, Child friendly

UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:

• Provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children
• Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
• Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
• Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity. Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long-term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.