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Community Engagement Manager

The Royal Melbourne Hospital

• Lead meaningful consumer engagement across a leading health service
• Drive strategy, innovation, and system-wide community partnerships
• Make a real impact by supporting co-design and patient-centred care

This is a Full Time, Fixed term position working 80 hours per fortnight for 18 months.

About The Royal Melbourne Hospital:

The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) is one of Victoria’s leading public hospitals, providing world-class care across acute, subacute, and mental health services within the Parkville Precinct.

The Community Engagement Manager plays a key role in fostering strong, effective partnerships with consumers and the broader community, with a focus on delivering the RMH Community Engagement Strategy. The role is responsible for leading systems and processes that enable meaningful engagement, including managing recruitment logistics, building capability in co-design and co-production, and evaluating the impact of consumer involvement.

About the Role:

• Lead and support all aspects of consumer partnerships across RMH.
• Manage consumer recruitment, engagement, and maintain the consumer register.
• Implement and evaluate innovative, organisation-wide engagement strategies.
• Drive the work of the Community Advisory Committee and Partnering with Consumers Committee.
• Oversee risk management activities related to consumer engagement, ensuring issues are identified, addressed, and documented.
• Ensure RMH meets accreditation standards for consumer partnerships and community engagement.

About you:

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant field
• Experience in best practice consumer and community engagement
• Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills
• Project and change management experience, proficient in MS Office
• Understanding of relevant policies, committee processes, and improvement methods

Benefits of working at RMH:

• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements
• Work in our newly build Elizabeth Street office!
• Discounts at health and fitness facilities with Fitness Passport
• Generous leave entitlements - 5 weeks per year plus monthly ADOs for full time staff!
• RMH is a value-based organisation – People First, Lead with Kindness, Excellence Together!

To view the full position description, click here!

Please note, interviews will be scheduled as soon as suitable candidates apply, and the position may close early.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check. Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment prior to commencement.

The RMH stands in solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in work and care. We are proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community.  Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities, and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.