About the RACP
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) connects, represents, and trains physicians and trainee physicians across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The RACP provides services to support the delivery of training, continuing professional development, and health policy and advocacy to medical health professionals.
Our Values
Accountable | Collaborate | Indigenise and Decolonise | Lead the way | Respect
Why Join Us?
As part of our team, you will be offered a competitive remuneration salary and access to some amazing benefits including a flexible hybrid work model, additional paid leave between Christmas and New Year, paid parental leave, free annual flu vaccinations, professional development opportunities, access to our Employee Assistance Program, special corporate discounts and more! To view all our benefits, visit www.racp.edu.au/about/careers-at-racp.
Our 3-2-1 Hybrid Working Model
3 days from anywhere in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand per week,
2 days from an RACP office location per week,
1 of the two days per week in office spent with your team.
Job Description
The Training Pathways Lead is a part time fixed term role focused on the development and establishment of a Māori and Pacific physician training pathway and pipeline. The role works upstream of formal RACP training and is designed to strengthen early engagement, exposure, and progression for Māori and Pacific medical students and general year doctors considering physician careers.
Key responsibilities of the role include advising on and supporting the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of initiatives that increase awareness of, access to, and preparedness for physician training pathways. This includes strengthening culturally safe engagement, supporting mentoring and exposure opportunities, promoting environments that uphold equity, wellbeing, and connection, and ensuring pathway initiatives reflect the needs, aspirations, and lived realities of Māori and Pacific learners.
With the leadership and guidance of the Lead Fellow Māori Health and the Tumuaki / Head of Māori and Equity, the Pathways Lead will draw on Māori and Pacific health workforce experience and insight to provide advice to Te Waka Hauora team and relevant College committees. This advice will inform initiatives aimed at advancing Hauora Māori, Pacific health equity, cultural safety, and the sustainability of the Māori and Pacific physician workforce.
Additionally, this role will involve collaboration with key stakeholders, both internal and external to the College, to ensure initiatives are responsive, effective and aligned with RACP’s strategic outcomes.
This role is critical to establishing a trusted, culturally grounded pathway that supports Māori and Pacific learners to make informed decisions about physician careers and strengthens the long term growth, wellbeing, and success of the Māori and Pacific physician workforce.
Desired Skills and Experience
In order to be considered for this role we are seeking the following experience:
Essential
Holds a Bachelor of Medicine
Direct, lived experience of navigating medical education and training pathways, including key transition points and decision making stages, and applying this insight to support learner centred pathway design and engagement.
Cultural lived experience grounded in tikanga, with experience working in ways that reflect both traditional and contemporary approaches and applying cultural values appropriately in professional settings.
Demonstrated experience applying cultural safety principles in practice, adapting engagement approaches to ensure respect, inclusion, and responsiveness.
Experience working collaboratively across teams and organisations, contributing to shared outcomes through partnership, codesign, and collective problem solving.
Experience operating in complex environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities, exercising sound judgement to progress work effectively.
Experience building and maintaining networks across organisations, sectors, or communities to support delivery of work objectives.
Experience influencing and gaining commitment, using credible, values based advocacy to progress initiatives or ways of working.
Experience working under conditions of uncertainty, maintaining traction and identifying workable solutions when clarity is limited.
Experience improving or streamlining processes, contributing to more effective and efficient ways of working and continuous improvement.
Desirable
Demonstrated experience in Māori leadership
Knowledge and/or understanding of Te Reo Māori and Mātauranga Māori.
Committee experience
If you are interested in this role, we would strongly encourage that you apply ASAP via the advertised job link.
Should you have any enquiries feel free to reach out to our Recruitment Team - recruitment@racp.edu.au (We cannot accept applications via email only enquiries)
We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible as will be shortlisting and interviewing as applications are received. Our ad may close earlier than the specified closing date should a suitable candidate be found.
