The AIHW's APS employee census results attest to our positive and supportive workplace culture. We are an inclusive, flexible, and productive workplace where people are treated with respect and courtesy, and diverse and unique attributes are recognised and valued. Our results also show that we achieved top ten rankings in staff engagement, communication, wellbeing and SES manager scales out of 107 APS agencies. We offer a range of benefits including: access to flexible working arrangements to support your work/life balance attractive remuneration packages including generous superannuation and leave provisions challenging and fulfilling work where you can use your skills and expertise opportunities for professional development including study assistance We are committed to creating genuine opportunities for everyone and we welcome applications from First Nations people(s), people with disability, LGBTIQA, neurodiverse people and people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The AIHW has offices in Canberra and Sydney and offers remote work opportunities for many roles. For more information, visit the Benefits of working for the AIHW page of our website. The key duties of the position include The MPHU, PDU and SaRHU are looking for a Maternity Sector Advisor to assist with their work programs as well as to advise the AIHW more broadly. The successful applicant should have experience working in the maternal and perinatal health sector in roles with a strong emphasis on the use of data and routine reporting for quality and safety and service improvement and/or clinical governance and performance management. The successful candidate will support work to improve the timeliness, utility and availability of national data. The role involves engagement and consultation with a range of jurisdictional, policy, technical and clinical stakeholders. The Advisor role will guide and support improvements to the collection and reporting of maternal and perinatal data, and the provision of data insights back to key stakeholders, including data providers, policy developers and maternity service providers. The role is up to 24 months with the possibility of extension. Under general direction you will: lead consultations with the maternity sector, including service providers, policy makers and other entities, to ensure the AIHW data and reporting is aligned with clinical practice and maternity service needs advise and support teams to design and deliver high quality information and data products that reflect the needs of the maternity sector, including through providing insights based on clinical experiences and consultations work collaboratively with other Executive officers to provide leadership, direction, and the effective management of resources support improvements to data collection, validation, analysis and reporting processes and systems contribute to the provision of secretariat support for various committees write reports, briefings, agenda papers and business cases and give presentations to different audiences liaise and negotiate with other areas of the AIHW, and represent the Group/Unit at meeting.
