Project Manager

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Project or program management experience with ability to manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes.

Lead strategic planning, budget management, milestone tracking and reporting for end-to-end project delivery.

Coordinate governance structures and facilitate co-design with stakeholders, including lived experience representatives.

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Role Type

Contract • Part-time • Mid-level Senior

Description

Project Manager – Centre for Perinatal Lived Experience (C-PLEx)

National Perinatal Lived Experience Workforce Development Project

About C-PLEX

C-PLEx, delivered by Peach Tree Perinatal Wellness, is a national initiative focused on strengthening lived experience leadership, capability, education and workforce integration within perinatal and infant mental health (PIMH) systems across Australia.

Because the earliest years shape lifelong outcomes, we are building and supporting a lived experience (peer) workforce that improves how families are held, heard, and supported through pregnancy and the First 2000 days.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the strategic planning and delivery of the C-PLEx national workforce development project through to June 2028.

This senior role reports to the CEO, and is responsible for end-to-end project delivery including co-production, stakeholder engagement, governance, consultation, workforce capability development, instruction design coordination, reporting, impact measurement and national dissemination activities.

You will work closely with lived experience leaders and project partners to deliver a high-impact national initiative within the PIMH specialisation.

Hours: Part time, 19 hours per week

Pay: SCHADS Level 6.1 – $58.36 per hour + super + salary packaging

Contract: Fixed-term to June 2028

Location: Flexible – Peach Tree Head Office is based in Brisbane (Nundah) but has Parent Wellbeing Centres throughout QLD. This role may be based at any of our Centres, work from home, or hybrid.

Key responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of the C-PLEx Project to June 2028

Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, budgets and reporting

Ensure delivery against milestones, contractual obligations, budget, and quality standards

Coordinate governance structures, including advisory groups, working groups, and national consultation processes

Build and maintain collaborative relationships with government, community, clinical, academic and lived experience partners, as well as the broader Peach Tree team

Facilitate co-design processes with stakeholders including lived experience representatives, clinicians, service providers and community partners

Coordinate the refinement and expansion of the Perinatal Mental Health Lived Experience Workforce Capability Framework

Work collaboratively with instructional designers, subject matter experts and lived experience contributors to develop high-quality education resources

Promote ethical, meaningful and safe engagement of lived experience expertise across all project activities

Lead monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and funder and governance requirements

Requirements

Current Working with Children Check (Blue Card) or willingness to obtain

National Police Check

Whooping Cough vaccination

Willingness to travel interstate, including attendance at national convenings and stakeholder meetings (as required)

About you

We encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and lived experience. You don’t need to meet every requirement to apply.

Project or program management experience

Strong understanding of lived experience workforce development, co-production principles, and trauma-informed practice

Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills

Excellent written communication (reports, funding documentation and strategic communications)

Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes

Commitment to inclusion, equity and meaningful lived experience leadership

Cert IV in Training & Assessment (desirable)

Experience in perinatal and infant mental health, peer workforce development or mental health sector (desirable)

Experience working with educational design, workforce capability frameworks or vocational education systems (desirable)

What We Offer

Flexible, family-friendly, part time work with genuine work-life balance

Salary packaging benefits up to $15,900, plus an additional $2,650 for meals and entertainment expenses

A supportive, values-led workplace grounded in lived experience and trauma-informed principles

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellbeing support

Portable long service leave (QLeave)

Discounts & cashback on everyday essentials (groceries, petrol, and more) through Employment Hero

How to Apply

Applications close on Sunday 5th July, but we’ll be shortlisting on a rolling basis.

We value everyone who expresses interest in joining our team and aim to respond to all applicants by the end of July. If you have questions in the meantime, please reach out to Zoe (HR Coordinator) at working@peachtree.org.au.

We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, including people of all genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ individuals, and those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

Company Overview

Peach Tree is a community based mental health organisation, which provides services for parents, partners, and families who are impacted by emotional and mental health challenges in the period of pregnancy and early parenthood. Utilising trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and person-led approaches, we aim to support health and well-being in the perinatal and early parenthood period. We use a Lived Experience Workforce which means that everyone who delivers our services and programs has personal insight and experience into the challenges of becoming a parent and raising small children. Our Peer Support Workers, Peer Educators and Peer Coaches are all dedicated to providing compassionate, meaningful, and inclusive support.