Closes: 08 November 2026

Classification: Senior Officer Grade C
Salary: $127,597 - $136,873 plus superannuation
Position No: 72530 - 02SDV
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 02 November 2026
Contact Officer: Prathima Karri on [email protected] or (02) 5124 9353

What can we offer you:

- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Versatile working conditions.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
- Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.

About the Role: Canberra Health Services is seeking a talented and motivated professional to join its Decision Support Unit, supporting strategic healthcare planning, funding, and performance initiatives that benefit the ACT community.

Reporting to the Director, Costing and Performance, the Assistant Director is a key position within the Decision Support Unit (DSU), a multidisciplinary team that drives organisational performance through strategic planning, activity-based funding (ABF), health information services, data quality, digital health optimisation, ICT services, and decision support. Working at the intersection of healthcare, finance, and analytics, you will provide critical costing and funding insights that support informed decision-making, enhance operational performance, and contribute to the delivery of high-quality health services for our community.





As Canberra Health Services continues its transition to an Activity Based Funding environment, this role will be instrumental in ensuring clinical costing accurately reflects service delivery and supports sustainable resource allocation. You will collaborate closely with clinical, operational, and financial stakeholders to develop meaningful reporting and analysis from multiple data sources, helping to drive evidence-based planning, performance improvement, and alignment with national costing standards.

Please note selection may be based on Application and Referee report only.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.

For more information on this position and how to apply “click here”

Note: This is a temporary position available for a period of 11 months with the possibility of permanency.

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.

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.

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Note

This is a temporary position available for a period of 11 months with the possibility of permanency.

Career interest categories:

Administration and Governance
Healthcare, Medical and Allied Services

📌 Assistant Director - Costing and Performance | Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency (Canberra)
🏢 Canberra Health Services
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