• Full-time, ongoing role
• Parkville Precinct, Melbourne - with flexible, hybrid working
• Salary packaging + Super + 5 weeks annual leave  
• Digital Innovation Service – Hosted by The Royal Women’s Hospital

 The Royal Women’s Hospital is one of Australia’s oldest and most distinguished tertiary hospitals dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of women and newborns, offering specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.  Our goal is to be the best place to work, learn and contribute, and to provide exceptional experiences for our patients and consumers.

 About The Digital Innovation Service (DI)

The Digital Innovation Service (DI), hosted by The Women’s, delivers a unified ICT capability across the Parkville Local Health Service Network. DI supports the Women’s, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Peter Mac, providing shared digital infrastructure, systems, and innovation services that are critical to both clinical and operational performance across the precinct. Collectively, these services support more than 19,000 staff.

Between July 2024 and June 2025, DI managed over 139,000 support tickets, highlighting its essential role in enabling safe, reliable, and connected care.

In addition to core services, DI delivers ICT services under Service Level Agreements to the Parkville Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing Service (PYMHWS) and provides limited legacy support to Northern Health and Western Health.

About the role

As an Lead Emergency Management you will be responsible for for strengthening the organisation’s readiness, response and recovery capabilities for cyber and technology-related incidents. You will  oversee the development, coordination and governance of emergency management, business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis response frameworks to ensure organisational resilience in the face of disruptions.

A regular day will see you:

• Lead the development and continuous improvement of emergency management, business continuity, and disaster recovery frameworks
• Coordinate incident response processes, escalation pathways, and communications plans
• Conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses to identify critical dependencies
• Deliver and facilitate simulation exercises and readiness activities
• Support real-time coordination during major incidents and recovery efforts
• Provide strategic advice to leadership on resilience risks and response strategies
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen coordinated response capability

About you

You’ll bring with you:

• Experience in emergency management, business continuity, disaster recovery, or related fields
• Strong understanding of digital environments and/or cyber resilience (desirable)
• Experience working in complex or regulated environments, ideally healthcare
• Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills

Our Benefits

At the Women’s, you will enjoy a culture that is collaborative, supportive, and passionate about learning.  We have a strong sense of purpose and engage in meaningful work every day.  We offer our people a range of rewarding benefits, including:

• $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted financial, lifestyle and health options, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
• Public transport options at our doorstep and end of journey facilities for cyclists.
• Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities.

Inclusion and belonging

The Women’s celebrates, values and supports a diverse and inclusive environment which reflects our vibrant community.  We encourage applications from anyone identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.  We also welcome anyone who identifies as LGBTQIA+, linguistically, culturally and/or gender diverse, people with disability, and people of any age to apply for our roles.

 We are committed to gender equity principles, and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women and family violence matters.  We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited and, as a child safe organisation, have a strong commitment to child safety and wellbeing.

Join us!

If you feel this role is right for you, we warmly invite you to apply and encourage your early application.  All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC) and a valid Working with Children Check.  Clinical staff are required to be vaccinated against, or demonstrate immunity to, COVID-19, influenza, and a range of other diseases.

Should you need assistance or require any adjustments or accommodations to fully participate in the application or interview process, or if you require an accessible copy of the position description, you are most welcome to reach out to the contact person listed.  We acknowledge that not all applicants will meet the full list of selection criteria outlined, and wherever possible we will consider applications where relevant experience can apply.

For more information, please view the Position Description Lead Emergency Management – Cyber Resilience & Architecture.

For a confidential discussion, please contact Nicole Nisi Emergency Management Lead(Commander)Digital Innovation -  email nicole.nisi@thewomens.org.au 

Application closing date:  10 September 2026