Senior Project Manager (PROJ-4260)

Job Duties and Responsibilities may include:

• Provide leadership and management of a multi-disciplined project team and coordinate project activities including support to strategic planning, governance functions and human resource management.
• Accountable for managing and leading a team, including providing clear and consistent communication, setting clear performance and behavioural standards, managing performance, delegating responsibility and guiding and developing people.
• Responsible for the management of schedule, risk, budget and resources, preparation of briefings, submissions, reports and returns relating to the project progress and issues in accordance with organisational requirements.
• Apply established technical, operational, professional and administrative activities, procedures, practices and project management methodologies.
• Identify risks and opportunities and take account of these in planning, decision making and priority setting.
• Build and sustain stakeholder engagement, including the ability to communicate with influence and negotiate effectively.
• Influence and motivate team members and actively lead group activities.
• Analyse and interpret project performance against agreed plans and develop and evaluate strategies to achieve project outcomes.
• Takes the initiative to resolve issues by identifying and developing ideas through analysis of alternative courses of action and their implications.
• Accountable to manage a range of project activities and coordinate project inputs in accordance with organisational practices, methods and standards appropriate to the complexity of the project.
• Prepare correspondence, briefs and reports as required including submissions and documents for higher delegate and committee consideration.
• Interpret and ensure compliance with legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks.
• Conduct other project-related tasks within the scope of the stated APS level, as required by the assigned work area.

Technical skills:

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in a project manager role or similar
• Able to apply project management methodologies, e.g. PRINCE2
• Proficiency using project management tools.

Essential criteria:

• PRMG 5 - Project management: Level 5 (SFIA) Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects. Provides effective leadership to the project team. Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools. Manages the change control process and assesses and manages risks. Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and delivers regular and accurate communication to stakeholders. Ensures project and product quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure. Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are formally accepted, by appropriate stakeholders. Monitors costs, times, quality and resources used and takes action where performance deviates from agreed tolerances.

• REQM 5 - Requirements definition and management: Level 5 (SFIA) Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives. Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards for requirements management. Obtains input from, and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders. Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts. Establishes requirements baselines. Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.

• RLMT 5: Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups. Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables. Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders. Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans. Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding. Facilitates business decision-making processes. Captures and disseminates technical and business information.

Desirable criteria:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Desire to be accountable for their actions
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours
• Willing to challenge the traditional ways of doing business
• Thrive in dynamic environments and comfortable with ambiguity
• Outcome-focused mindse
• Adaptability, resilience, flexibility and teamwork, including regionally dispersed teams