Synergy Manager - ICU-SYNERGY Program – Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC)
Job No.: 688677
Location: 553 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Employment Type: 0.8FTE
Duration: 12-month fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: Pro-rata of $140,157 - $148,769 pa HEW Level 09 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
Drive impactful research that shapes critical care policy and practice.
Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (SPHPM) is a recognised leader in improving health outcomes through evidence-based research, education, and innovation. As one of the largest and most dynamic schools of public health in the Asia-Pacific, SPHPM integrates excellence across disciplines including epidemiology, clinical trials, biostatistics, health economics, and implementation science.
Within the School, the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC) is a world-leading methods centre driving large-scale clinical research in critical care. From sepsis and traumatic brain injury to mechanical ventilation and ECMO, ANZIC-RC’s work has shaped intensive care medicine across Australia, New Zealand, and beyond.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an accomplished and motivated Synergy Manager to join the ANZIC-RC and contribute to the advancement of The ICU SYNERGY.
The ICU SYNERGY aims to improve personalised, value-based care and patient outcomes in critically ill patients with specific aims including the:
- Generation of new knowledge to address national critical care research priorities.
- Expending Australian research capacity and infrastructure to improve patient-important outcomes.
- Support value-based care in new Synergies across multidisciplinary inter/national research.
- Assistance in the translation of knowledge into practice, lead guidelines and improve cost-effectiveness as well as evaluate practice change, patient-important outcomes and resource utilisation,
Working closely with Prof Carol Hodgson and the ANZIC Research Centre staff, you will lead and support the aims of the ICU SYNERGY Program. You will play a key role in developing and supporting interventions, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and supporting high-quality publications and competitive funding applications in key streams.
Specific streams include
- Improving Models of care and outcomes after SEPSIS
- Prevention and treatment of Acute Renal Injury
- Improving outcomes of Acute Respiratory Failure
This is a unique opportunity to influence real-world health within the critical care environment as well as health systems nationally and internationally.
Key responsibilities include
- Contribute to strategic planning and the achievement of program, unit and University goals in area/s of specialisation
- Leading and contributing to research publications, grant proposals, and conference presentations.
- Direct and conceptualise programs of research and analysis in areas of specialisation, including making recommendations and co-ordinating regular high level business reporting
- Supervising and mentoring research staff and students.
- Enhancing the national and international reputation of ANZIC-RC through high-impact research and stakeholder engagement.
About You
You are an innovative researcher with demonstrated leadership and research excellence. You thrive in collaborative, interdisciplinary environments and are passionate about translating evidence into policy and practice.
Experience in intensive care, sepsis, or life-threatening infection research will be highly regarded.
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
Together with our commitment to academic freedom, you will have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure, world-class teaching spaces, and international collaboration opportunities.
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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Please address the following questions in your cover letter:
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- Program Leadership
What experience do you have leading or coordinating complex health or critical care research programs, including strategic planning, team leadership, and reporting?
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- Research and Translation Impact
How have you contributed to high‑quality publications, competitive grants, or guideline development, and supported the translation of research into clinical practice or policy?
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- Collaboration and Synergy
How have you built effective multidisciplinary and national/international research collaborations, and how would you apply this to advance the ICU SYNERGY Program?
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Mr Tony Trapani, Research Manager, ANZIC-RC, 03 9903 0347
Position Description: Synergy Manager
Applications Close: Sunday 8 March 2026, 11:55pm AEDT
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