Division Manager (Parkville)

Job Title: Division Manager Overview WEHI is transforming how our professional services teams empower and enable scientists to deliver world‑leading medical research now and into the future. Following a holistic review and redesign across our professional services and scientific support portfolios, we are now focused on strengthening our critical capabilities, aligning our structures and systems with strategic priorities, and empowering our people to do what they do best. We are now recruiting a variety of newly established positions to help shape and embed these new ways of working. An exciting opportunity is available for a Division Manager to join the Office of the Deputy Director at Australia’s pre‑eminent biomedical research institute. About the Position The Division Manager operates with a high degree of autonomy providing strategic analysis and business insights to enable divisional leadership in understanding the business implications of scientific priorities. The role operates close to divisional decision‑making, contributing expertise through structured analysis, synthesis and interpretation across strategy and operations from a divisional and scientific perspective. Working closely with the Deputy Director and Professional Services Business Partners, the Division Manager advises leaders through framing options, testing assumptions, surfacing implications and understanding trade‑offs within defined problem spaces and priorities. The role facilitates informed decision‑making, bringing a divisional lens to integrating research priorities, timing, dependencies and operating context. Selection Criteria Personal Qualities:
- Sound judgement and intellectual maturity, with the ability to operate credibly alongside senior scientific and professional leaders.
- Analytical and curious by nature, able to ask the right questions, test assumptions and make sense of complex, ambiguous information.
- Confident yet measured communicator, able to contribute constructively to discussion, challenge thinking respectfully and frame issues clearly.
- Collaborative and relationship‑oriented, with the ability to work productively across disciplines and qualified boundaries.
- Discreet and trusted, able to handle sensitive information with care and professionalism. Knowledge and Skills:
- Relevant qualifications in business or a related field.
- Extensive management experience providing business, planning or strategic analysis to support leadership decision‑making in a complex organisation.
- Strong ability to analyse and synthesise information across finance, workforce, operations and risk to identify implications, trade‑offs and dependencies.
- Experience contributing to planning processes, business cases, implementation plans or similar decision‑support activities.
- Experience working in a research, health, higher education or not‑for‑profit environment. Terms of Appointment The position is ongoing in a full‑time capacity. Salary is Professional Services Employee Level 9 ($137,776
- $149,135). Very attractive salary packaging options are available for general living expenses, meal entertainment, novated leasing and more. 12% superannuation payable, plus up to a further 5% after the first 6 months of service via our matching superannuation scheme. Equal Employment Opportunity WEHI’s commitment to diversity and inclusion At WEHI we strive to foster a flexible working environment that encourages individual differences and promotes collaboration and creativity. We recognise that talent does not sit within a single identifiable group in our society and that WEHI’s ability to shape contemporary scientific thinking and deliver leading professional services relies on a diversity of thought within our organisation. Our action to promote gender equality has been recognised with an Athena SWAN Bronze Award from Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) and we offer a range of support for women researchers. Our commitment to celebrating diversity and addressing inequities is further demonstrated through our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, Gender Action Plan, Reconciliation Action Plan and our WE‑Pride network for LGBTQIA+ staff and students. We actively encourage applications from people with a disability, culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse people and people with diverse genders and sexualities. Should you require support during the recruitment process due to special needs or consideration, please contact the People and Culture team. Indigenous Employment WEHI is working to create a future where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will be engaged at the scientific frontier, making exciting discoveries and decisions about the future of health in this country, and part of a leading professional services workforce supporting the realisation of these discoveries. We are committed to creating a culturally safe workplace and offering career development and leadership opportunities to First Nations staff and students. We strongly encourage any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rt3n7