This is a program manager job where the word 'manager' carries actual weight. You won't be assisting research. You'll be running the operational core of SOLVE-CHD, a national coronary heart disease research and implementation program based at Bond University on the Gold Coast.

The position is advertised through Bond University's jobs portal. If you have managed a multi-site health project before, you already know the shape of the work. If you have not, the position description will quickly show you whether your project controls, budgeting, and stakeholder experience line up.

SOLVE-CHD is not a narrow clinical trial. It is a coordinated attempt to close the distance between what research already knows about secondary prevention and what patients with coronary heart disease actually receive.

What SOLVE-CHD Is and What It's Trying to Change

Coronary heart disease, often shortened to CHD, covers the build-up of plaque in the arteries that supply blood to the heart. In Australia it remains one of the leading causes of death and a major driver of hospital admissions. A large share of those admissions is repeat events in people who already know they have the condition.

SOLVE-CHD is a national program focused on improving secondary prevention for people who already have CHD. Secondary prevention means stopping a repeat heart event rather than preventing the first one: getting people into cardiac rehabilitation, keeping them on the medicines that lower risk, helping them change daily behaviours that drive readmissions, and making sure primary care has the information it needs after discharge.

The program sits across multiple Australian universities and health services. Bond University's involvement includes this operational role, which means the program manager has to coordinate activity that does not live in one building or one state.

This is not a job for someone who wants a single-site remit. You will be working with researchers, hospital teams, and community providers who run on different systems and different clock speeds.

What the Program Manager Actually Does

Open the full job posting on Bond University's careers site and you'll see the selection criteria spelled out. But the working reality of this role is easier to describe in plain terms.

You keep the project moving. That means budgets, timelines, reporting, ethics and governance submissions, recruitment and supervision of project staff, and keeping the research team's promises to funders and partner health services.

The program manager usually sits between the chief investigators and the project officers. You translate a research protocol into a work plan, then chase that work plan to completion. If a site has not enrolled, you find out why. If a milestone is slipping, you tell the right people early.

Bond's position is for an experienced operator, not a first job after a PhD. Strong candidates tend to bring health research project management experience, financial management, and enough clinical literacy to talk to cardiology teams without hand-holding.

Here are four things that will matter in an application:

• Demonstrated management of a multi-site or multi-partner project, with named examples of what you personally coordinated.
• Budget and reporting experience, including reconciling multiple cost centres or partner agreements.
• Working knowledge of human research ethics and governance in Australia, because delays here kill timelines.
• Stakeholder management with both clinical and academic teams, plus the written evidence to prove it.

The role also involves the parts that don't appear in media releases: maintaining site files, chasing signatures, monitoring recruitment dashboards, and preparing progress reports for the funder. If you've done this before, you know it's the difference between a grant that looks good on paper and a trial that actually finishes.

The Cardiac Rehabilitation Gap That Makes SOLVE-CHD Necessary

You don't need to be a cardiologist to see why this program matters. Australian data has long shown that cardiac rehabilitation is under-used, particularly among women, rural patients, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and those who leave hospital without a clear referral. Programs offered only at fixed daytime hours miss people who work or live far from a hospital.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare tracks heart disease hospitalisations and deaths. The Heart Foundation publishes prevention guidance built on the same evidence. The problem is not a lack of knowledge. The problem is delivery.

SOLVE-CHD exists because narrowing that delivery gap requires a different kind of work: site-level implementation, feedback to clinicians, and support for patients that fits their lives. That work does not happen through journals alone. It needs coordinators, data systems, and managers who can make a program run.

That's where this role fits. You won't be delivering the intervention to patients, but you'll be maintaining the infrastructure that makes delivery possible across sites.

Who Should Apply, and Who Should Keep Looking

This is a full operational role. If your background is pure research output, it may not fit. If your background is project management in a hospital, university, NGO, or clinical trial environment, it likely does.

Bond University is a small, private university on the Gold Coast. That can mean shorter decision lines than the large public research universities, but it also means the program manager is visible. If you perform, people notice. If you stall, they notice faster.

You should apply if you can show:

• You have run a complex project with multiple partners and kept the governance on track without a full-time project management office behind you.
• You understand Australian health research infrastructure, or you can pick it up fast enough to manage ethics and site agreements from day one.
• You write clearly. Most of this job is accurate records, status reports, and early flags to busy people.
• You are comfortable being the person who asks the uncomfortable question about a missed milestone.

How to Apply Without Losing a Week

Start with the official posting. Read the position description line by line. Make a two-column list: each selection criterion on the left, your specific matched example on the right.

Then write your application around those matches. Do not send a generic CV that lists duties under each previous job. Selection panels skim; they're looking for evidence against the criteria, not a life story.

If the posting does not list salary, ask before you invest too much. That is not out of line, and it saves you from discovering the range does not work after you have prepared a long statement.

If your CV still reads as a list of duties, this guide on writing a winning academic CV will help tighten it before you apply.

Apply through Bond University's job portal. You can also review the summary and job alert options at AcademicJobs.

Do This Before the Closing Date

Pick the two selection criteria that carry the most weight in the position description. Write one specific example for each, using numbers where you can: budget size, site count, time saved, risk flagged. Keep it to six lines each.

That's your core application material. Everything else can be built around it. If you cannot write those two examples quickly, this role is not the right fit.

For the full position details and to submit your application, go to Bond University's official job posting. If you are still comparing similar roles, AcademicJobs keeps the key details in one place.