About This Opportunity

We are looking for a highly motivated and organised Consumer Research Program Coordinator to support clinical research projects and trials led by the Infection Prevention and Vascular Access team. Reporting to Professor Claire Rickard, you will assist with project setup, ethics and governance coordination, co-chair the consumer advisory group, manage data, and report progress to Chief Investigators.

In this role, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams, consumers, families, and other stakeholders to ensure research projects are implemented effectively and efficiently.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration – Build and maintain relationships with consumers and key stakeholders, participate in meetings, and support effective delivery of intervention trials across multiple sites.
• Participant Recruitment & Data Management – Promote participant recruitment and engagement, maintain systematic participant records, and manage project-specific databases including data collection, cleaning, and reporting.
• Research Reporting & Communication – Prepare and provide data for research outcomes, including abstracts, posters, presentations, publications, and regular progress updates for committees and project teams.
• Project Oversight & Consumer Support – Assist consumer representatives in implementing engagement and intervention activities, monitor project progress, ethical compliance, and potential issues, and support frameworks for multi-site trial coordination.

About The Infection Prevention and Vascular Access Group

We work with healthcare clinicians and consumers to generate and use evidence for clinical practices that prevent and detect infection across clinical specialties. A particular focus is on the prevention of infections in invasive medical devices such as IV therapy catheters which cause one-third of all healthcare associated bloodstream infections. Further details about the Infection Prevention and Vascular Access Group and its activities can be accessed here.

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you will have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world. Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you will have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• Up to 26 weeks paid parental leave/paid primary care leave
• 17% superannuation contributions + 17.5% annual leave loading
• Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave, and a condensed fortnight
• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family
• Career development opportunities –access to exclusive internal-only vacancies and our Study for Staff program
• On campus childcare options
• Affordable parking (from just $6.15 a day)
• Salary packaging options

About You

• Tertiary qualifications in health sciences (or other relevant disciplines), or experience and research management expertise in a tertiary setting; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.
• Understanding of structure, operations and OH&S policies and regulations of a tertiary education environment.
• Well-developed skills in project and team operations management, including understanding research budget, liaising with stakeholders to establish clinical research ethics and legal governance.
• Understanding of higher education research funding environment and processes.
• Experience in designing and implementing workflow processes.
• Well-developed skills in written communication, including flexibility and proficiency in using a wide range of computer and web applications to achieve high standard communication and promotional materials.
• Demonstrated leadership qualities and ability to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team with competing timelines; and to effectively communicate with staff of all levels, both internal and external to the organisation.
• Broad understand of Queensland Health organisational structure and operational processes; or demonstrated ability to rapidly acquire such information.