Job description
Agency Department of Health Work unit Centre for Disease Control
Job title Senior Program Coordination Officer Designation Senior Professional Officer 1
Job type Full time Duration Ongoing
Salary $128,551 - $143,611 Location Darwin
Position number 5427 RTF Closing 27/10/2025
Contact officer Vicki Krause, Director on or
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APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR
TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS.
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates
people with disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or
job, please discuss this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go
to the OCPE website.
Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go
to the OCPE website.
Primary objective
Reporting to the Executive Director Communicable Disease/Director of Centre for Disease Control (CDC), this position provides
high level support, expertise and advice on public health communication and education as well as coordination of projects that
enhances public health and communicable disease control in the Northern Territory.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Coordinate the development of public health communication, information and advice, including consumer resources across a
wide variety of platforms such as the NT Health website.
2. The production and design lead for the quarterly NT Disease Control Bulletin and the event management for the annual NT
CDC Conference.
3. Provides high level support and advice on organisational requirements across legislative, clinical document governance and
communication processes and distribution.
4. Maintain secretariat function for organising CDC senior management (e.g. Section Head) meetings or delegate as required.
5. Facilitate the enhancement of public health operations and response by increasing the uptake of best practice continuous
quality improvement and risk management to achieve quality outcomes and compliance.
6. Contribute to business planning, annual reports, work health and safety assessments and emergency planning including
contribution to public health response and outbreak management coordination.
7. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety assessments and management of workplace issues that affect
business operations and procedures relating to the work being undertaken in order to ensure high quality, safe services and
workplaces.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Degree in a Public Health, Allied Health Profession, Nursing or other health-related field.
2. Highly developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to negotiate successful outcomes
across a range of audiences, including the ability to clearly articulate complex concepts and critical issues recognise and deliver
digital and other training needs of systems and have intermediate to advanced skills in word processing and the Microsoft office
suite.
1. Well-developed knowledge of public health and understanding of communicable disease policies and initiatives.
2. Knowledge of government processes, policies and priorities as they apply to Government agencies and in particular to disease
control.
5. Project management experience and proven ability to work on multiple priorities at the same time.
Desirable
1. Post graduate qualifications in public health or similar.
1. Project or event management experience
Further information
Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice
and criminal history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is a relevant criminal history.
For immunisation requirements - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances) or Category B (indirect contact with
blood or body substances), check with contact person for requirements.