Senior Manager, Digital Health

Salary: $58.86 per hour

• Full time, fixed term opportunity until 06/09/2027

• base location negotiable across office locations: Tweed Heads, Ballina, Coffs Harbour or Port Macquarie

• hybrid work with office / home-based options.

About the role

As an experienced Senior Manager, Digital Health the role leads the planning and delivery of digital health initiatives across Healthy North Coast. Working collaboratively with stakeholders across primary care, aged care, community services and the broader North Coast health system, this role will help shape digital solutions that respond to local needs and improve the way health services are delivered. You’ll provide strategic oversight and coordination, bringing together internal teams, workforce members and contracted partners to achieve shared program outcomes and deliver initiatives to agreed schedules.

Who we are

Healthy North Coast (HNC) is an independent, not-for-profit organisation committed to improving the health of our North Coast communities through quality primary health care. We proudly deliver the Primary Health Network (PHN) Program across the stunning north coast region from Tweed Heads to Port Macquarie across Bundjalung, Githabul, Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti, Birpai and Yaegl lands.

Benefits, culture and inclusion

• be part of a high performing team making an everyday difference to the health of North Coast communities

• above award salaries, plus not-for-profit salary packaging benefits available up to $18,549 per annum to help increase your take-home pay

• additional paid leave at end of year

• organisational ACON membership

• commitment to professional growth with learning and development support

• Employee Assistance Program.

At Healthy North Coast, we are committed to creating a workplace where diversity, equity and inclusion are lived values. We recognise, respect and celebrate Aboriginal peoples, LGBTQ+ people, people with experiences of disability and neurodiversity, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, refugees and people seeking asylum, people across different ages and life stages, people from rural and remote communities, people with caring responsibilities, and all who contribute their skills, perspectives and lived experience. Our workplace is grounded in safety, dignity and belonging — free from discrimination, harassment, and exclusion — so that every person can thrive.

About you

To excel in this position, you will have:

• Knowledge and experience with technical or digital health systems, platforms and emerging technologies, and their application to primary health care and aged care service delivery.

• Project management skills – scopes, plans, monitors and reports on all aspects of the project; coordinates resources, sets and achieves project targets with demonstrated training or experience across project methodologies such as Prince2 and Agile.

• Demonstrated experience managing commissioning cycles and contracted providers relationships, ensuring procurement and deliverables meet agreed schedules.

• Experience in the development, implementation, and monitoring of business activities to support delivery of strategic and operational plans.

• Experience and responsibility for significant and multiple programs, services, or operations across a breadth of knowledge areas, to deliver outcomes

• Strong Communication and People Leadership skills with the ability to manage, develop, support and coach people to achieve success.

• Knowledge of and commitment to Work Health and Safety, Equal Employment Opportunity, Cultural Safety, and Continuous Improvement principles.

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or equivalent in management experience, 8+ years.

To learn more / apply

To access the position description, visit the careers page of our website via https://hnc.org.au/careers/. To apply, please send your resume and a cover letter that responds generally to the selection criteria listed above in no more than 3 pages via seek or to [email protected].

Please contact us if you have any questions or require any reasonable adjustments to participate in the recruitment process at [email protected]

Applications close 5:00pm Wednesday 21 October 2026.