Aboriginal Clinical Trials Manager

Description:

About us:
An incredible opportunity exists to join a team of highly motivated leaders and collaborative partners to drive a first-of-its-kind initiative to develop sustainable commercially-sponsored and investigator-initiated clinical trial portfolios across a vast rural, regional and remote footprint in Northern NSW.

The Rural, Regional and Remote Clinical Trial Enabling Program (R3-CTEP) is a Commonwealth-funded initiative aiming to deliver more equitable access to clinical trials for patients in rural, regional and remote NSW.

A key activity of the R3-CTEP is establishing three Clinical Trial Support Units across the state.

The Northern NSW R3 Clinical Trial Support Unit (CTSU) incorporates a Northern Cluster of Local Health Districts - Hunter New England, Mid-North Coast, Northern NSW and the Central Coast.

About the role:

• The Aboriginal Clinical Trials Manager is responsible for establishing and maintaining Aboriginal community partnerships and engagement to grow and facilitate cultural appropriateness of clinical trials across the Northern NSW Cluster to meet the priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
• The role will provide cultural leadership in patient and community engagement, recruitment and participation in clinical trials , and provide sound advice to the core leadership team of the Northern NSW R3 Clinical Trial Support Unit.
• The Aboriginal Clinical Trials Manager will be supported by the Northern NSW R3 Clinical Trial Support Unit core leadership team, including the Cluster Manager and Cluster Director.

Benefits:

• Salary packaging - Up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal & entertainment + Novated leasing.
• Four weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part-time employees)
• Up to 13 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees)
• Fitness Passport
• Superannuation contributions 10.5%