Senior Director - Training and Pathology

Closes: 15 May 2026

Classification: Senior Information Technology Officer Grade A

Salary: $172,246 plus superannuation

Position No: 71023

Directorate: Digital Canberra

Advertised (Gazettal date): 01 May 2026

Contact Officer: Regan Bartholomew on [email protected] or (02) 5124 6471

Details: Do you want to enrich your community by providing digital government services that are so easy, they just happen? That’s what Digital Canberra is here to do. We deliver and support digital government services that are easy to access, save time, and are safe to use. Join Digital Canberra and help deliver smart, secure, and seamless digital services that improve the people that live and work in our beautiful city and surrounding area.

At Digital Canberra, you’ll work with passionate technologists, policy experts, and designers to build and sustain services that matter. We value curiosity, collaboration, and creativity, and we’re committed to helping you grow.

Responsibilities

Digital Canberra is seeking a Senior Director to lead our training and pathology area under the broad direction of the Executive Branch Manager, Application Support, the Senior Director, Pathology and Training Team will be responsible for:

• Leading and managing a diverse team within a designated workstream.
• Working with key stakeholders to ensure the digital health record and ancillary systems meets the needs of end users in accordance with established timeframes.
• Developing an understanding of the operational needs to set the direction for the workstream.
• Maintaining the scope, schedule and quality of the workstream.
• Setting clear expectations for team members including defining what they should do and the timing of such activities.
• Managing risks and troubleshooting issues.
• Working closely with the divisional resources to coordinate activities.
• Advising and supporting team members by providing guidance on issues, key success factors and lessons learned.
• Supporting team members to maximise the benefits of the digital health record and ancillary systems.
• Providing consistent communication to the team.
• Developing a workstream plan and reporting on progress against the plan.
• Ensuring activities are appropriately documented including maintaining registers.
• Taking responsibility for the governance group overseeing the workstream and ensuring that the activities of the team are undertaken in accordance with governance frameworks.
• Participating in regular meetings to ensure the activities are complementary to the broader work of the division.
• Leading the strategic direction and delivery of the training program required for the Digital Health Record (DHR) and ancillary systems.
• Engaging with stakeholders in the public health system and respond to emerging trends and business needs through the training program.
• Undertaking other duties appropriate to this level of classification that contribute to the Directorate.
  
  

Refer to the position description for further information about this role. You may wish to speak to the listed Contact Officer if you have any queries once you have reviewed the Position Description.

What We Offer You

At Digital Canberra, we offer a rewarding government career that has a direct, positive impact on the Canberra community. You may be strategic, helping us lead technology investment decisions to build a genuinely connected Canberra. Or you may enjoy the hands-on satisfaction of working with the latest technology to keep our hospitals, schools, and government running. At Digital Canberra, you will make a difference!

As part of the ACT Public Service (ACTPS), Digital Canberra offers some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in Australia. Flexible working in the ACTPS means we provide the opportunity to work remotely (from home) or from a choice of office locations around Canberra, although the exact arrangements will be discussed with your hiring manager, based on operational needs.

Canberra is Australia’s capital – a welcoming, unique city with a quality of life that many cities aspire to. It’s the perfect place to raise children, take advantage of world-class cultural institutions, and enjoy the great outdoors. Canberra is primed for technology evolution. As a young and growing city, the shape of our community and our digital government services will continue to change.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply

Eligibility/Other Requirements

Highly desirable:

• Demonstrated experience in clinical system training and/or pathology systems within a public health environment.
• This position requires the successful applicant to be an Australian citizen and possess or acquire and maintain a security clearance at the Negative Vetting 1 (NV1)] level as an eligibility qualification for the position. If screening is not successful, your employment will not commence or, if already commenced, your employment will be reassessed.
  
  

Note: This is a temporary position available immediately until October 2026, with the possibility of extension and/or permanency. A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months. Selection may be based on application and referee reports only.

How to Apply: Please submit a one-page written response addressing all Professional, Technical Skills and Behavioural Capabilities. A current curriculum vitae with the names and contact details of two referees (one should be a current Supervisor/Manager).



Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now Button Below.

Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.

Where an offer of employment is for a fixed-term period, any related temporary contracts within the Territory will be issued in compliance with the requirements and applicable exceptions outlined in the Fair Work Act.

Digital Canberra

Digital Canberra was established on the 1 July 2025, amalgamating positions which previously were advertised under Chief Ministers and Economic Development Directorate and ACT Health Directorate.

Note

This is a temporary position available immediately until October 2026, with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.