Responsibilities of the Manager included:
- securing base funding for DIP, in particular for successive twelve month appointments of a Research Registrar
- creating all non-clinical content
- chairing the Steering Committee
- working with the Editor to secure funds for Project Officers and Contractors
- convening and chairing ad hoc committees for special projects
- managing contracts with external entities (development of the website for the online publication of DIP to replace the hard-copy booklet, development of IREDS, development of DIP apps)
- supervising DIP staff in the Support Services Section and Project Officers (in particular development of information for consumers, maintenance of the website, audit of impact of DIP utilisation, design and trial of IREDS)
- seeking, securing and maintaining membership, endorsement and accreditation by national and international entities
- marketing DIP nationally and internationally including presentations at conferences and publishing in refereed journals
- uploading revised and new content to the DIP website and DIP Apps in development
- establishing online publishing standards and revising the content of the website accordingly
- auditing hyperlinks to material internal and external to the website and correcting as necessary