Education Program Coordinator – Perioperative Medicine

Excellent full-time opportunity to support the world’s first perioperative medicine course offering clinical immersion

St Kilda location, flexible & hybrid working available

Internationally recognised, membership-based specialist medical college

About us:

The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) incorporating the Faculty of Pain Medicine, is an internationally recognised specialist medical education institution responsible for the training, examinations, specialist qualification, and continuing professional development of all anaesthetists and pain medicine specialists in Australia and New Zealand.

The college's purpose is to serve our communities by leading high-quality patient care in anaesthesia, perioperative and pain medicine, optimizing health and reducing the burden of pain.

About the opportunity

Join the team behind the world's first postgraduate perioperative medicine course featuring clinical immersion experiences across Australia and internationally. This role combines program coordination, stakeholder engagement, medical education administration, digital platform management and committee support.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate enrolments, assessments, scholarships, progression activities and certification processes.
• Manage relationships with hospitals, clinical immersion sites and healthcare partners, supporting the delivery and expansion of ANZCA's innovative perioperative medicine programs.
• Support onboarding of local and international clinical placement sites.
• Act as a key contact for participants, supervisors, assessors and healthcare stakeholders.
• Administer Learning Management Systems (LMS) and CRM platforms.
• Coordinate end-to-end delivery of webinars, workshops, educational events and presentation ceremonies, including participant communications, logistics and stakeholder engagement.
• Provide governance and committee support including agendas, minutes and action tracking.
• Support course updates and work with subject matter experts to maintain educational quality.

This is a permanent, full-time role reporting to the Education Operations Lead, Chapter of Perioperative Medicine. You will be based at ANZCA House on St Kilda Road, Melbourne with hybrid, flexible working options available.

This position may include occasional travel and will include work outside normal business hours to support meetings and events; this may include weekends. Time in lieu arrangements may apply in these circumstances.

About the team

The Chapter of Perioperative Medicine at ANZCA is a collaborative, purpose-driven team dedicated to advancing perioperative medicine as a discipline. The Chapter serves as a community of practice for specialists across multiple disciplines, including anaesthetists, surgeons, physicians, intensivists, and general practitioners, and forms a central part of ANZCA's long-term strategy to lead and shape the field of perioperative medicine.

The Chapter oversees the ANZCA Course in Perioperative Medicine and its Board and committees, which play a pivotal role in advancing perioperative medicine among specialist medical colleges, government and the health workforce.

We are a small, close-knit team that takes pride in what we do. Still growing and evolving, we support each other, and are deeply committed to the Chapter's success. If you thrive in a collaborative environment where your contributions genuinely matter, this is the team for you.

Keys to your success

This role is ideal for an experienced coordinator looking to combine program delivery, stakeholder engagement, education administration, digital system management and committee support in a purpose-driven healthcare organisation.

Specifically, you will have:

Essential:

· Experience in program coordination, education coordination, training administration or stakeholder-focused administration.

· Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with diverse stakeholders and confidently manage competing priorities across multiple groups.

· Experience delivering client-facing services with strong customer service values.

· Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.

· High level of accuracy and attention to detail.

· Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure meeting set deliverables and to tight timelines.

· Demonstrated experience with digital platforms, databases, or learning management systems (or strong aptitude to learn).

· Ability to work effectively in a small team and operate as a reliable, responsive colleague.

· Ability to work flexibly; autonomously identifies and proactively initiates actions which contribute to process operations and can also collaborate effectively as a part of an inter-disciplinary team

· Sound critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with ability to analyze, interpret, contextualise and present clear and meaningful information to support productive decision making

· Ability to follow established processes and contribute to their continuous improvement.

· Demonstrated expertise in a range of PC applications including:

o SharePoint, Word, Excel & Outlook

o Demonstrated experience working with a Learning Management System

o Experience with and an aptitude to learn and confidently use in-house database systems and applications

Desirable:

• Experience with a Learning Management System (e.g., Moodle, Canvas, or similar).
• Experience in a health, medical education, or membership-based organisation.
• Committee support experience.

What we can offer you

We offer employment benefits and a working environment that contribute to our people’s health, safety and wellbeing, personal and professional development and supports an inclusive, equitable, and respectful college culture.

• Join a purpose driven organisation with a team of individuals passionate about improving educational opportunities for health professionals
• Make a positive impact in medical education through supporting the world’s first perioperative medicine course offering clinical immersion
• A competitive remuneration package including full FBT exempt salary packaging
• Opportunity to grow in the position with genuine career pathways
• Excellent staff benefits - additional leave over the Christmas period, additional personal leave, health and wellbeing offerings, market leading parental leave, staff recognition program, member advantage program with access to discounted lifestyle benefits and leisure activities
• Flexible, hybrid working options
• Free confidential counselling service to support our staff and their close family through life’s challenges via our Employee Assistance Program

ANZCA is an equal opportunity employer and our commitment to creating and supporting an inclusive culture is reflected in our diverse mix of talented people passionate about delivering their best. We embrace and value the diverse society we live within and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or age. We strongly encourage Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori applicants to apply for any of our current opportunities.

Next steps

Apply now and take the next step towards a rewarding and long-term career within a progressive environment. Our application process will require you to submit your current resume and a cover letter. We will progress suitable candidates through the hiring process as soon as we can.

If selected, we will contact you to discuss your application on the phone, you will be invited to meet with us at the college and from there, complete some background checks. We will help you through this process.

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process and supportive workplace, so please let us know what you need.

For more information about ANZCA or for a copy of the position description, please email Nuzee at [email protected].