program manager.

• 12 month engagement + extensions
• Must be in Canberra
• Ability to obtain a security clearance
• Candidate must be an Australian citizen

The Role

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Driving and managing a program of work, delivering the core data and analytics platform and overseeing key projects to ensure the delivery of outcomes and business benefits, while managing scope boundaries, schedule, quality, and budget.
• Leading business change management initiatives, ensuring successful delivery while ensuring business buy-in.
• Establishing and leading teams across various workstreams to ensure seamless execution and achievement of program goals ensuring they are delivered into service.
• Proactively identifying and driving resolution of dependencies, risks and issues across business, technology and vendor work streams to ensure successful delivery of business outcomes and benefits. Communicating impact of dependencies on wider enterprise roadmaps and initiatives.
• Being hands-on, when necessary, actively participating in tasks to ensure project milestones are met and supporting the team in completing critical tasks.
• Developing and providing advice on relevant program governance, quality assurance and documentation to senior executives, program board and key stakeholders.
• Effectively liaising and negotiating with relevant stakeholders internally and externally, overcoming obstacles to delivery through collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and negotiation.
• Leading, and managing procurements, tenders, and establishing and managing complex contracts resulting from procurement as they relate to program and project delivery.
• Conducting program and project reviews and creating reports with recommendations for executive staff and relevant boards and their members.
• Developing, monitoring and reporting on Key Performance Indicators to provide program success and delivery metrics and driving a culture of continuous improvement.

Essential criteria

• Deliver Business Benefits: Proven track record of 5+ years’ experience successfully delivering complex ICT enabled programs in a data and analytics or similar context, to achieve business outcomes and benefits through modernisation and transformation initiatives, driving business change and ensuring stakeholder buy-in.
• Hands-on Leadership to achieve results: Proven ability to build and lead collaborative program and project multi-disciplinary teams to achieve organisational goals and objectives across business, technology and vendor teams.
• Leading Transformative Change: Proven ability to communicate with influence both verbally and in writing with a range of internal and external stakeholders. This includes your ability to drive business change management and negotiate mutually beneficial outcomes across a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Program and Technical Expertise: Demonstrated expertise in creating fit-for-purpose governance structures, plans, frameworks, integrated schedules, budgets and documentation, to drive a delivery culture and ensure delivery of business outcomes and benefits across the organisation.
• Procurement and Contract Expertise: Proven experience in leading and managing complex tender procurements, including preparation of tender documentation, contract negotiation and establishment, and vendor management to deliver ICT enabled business outcomes.

Desirable criteria

• Relevant qualifications in Information Systems (or a related field) and a demonstrated understanding of PRINCE2, PMBOK and Agile (SCRUM and SAFE) delivery will be highly regarded.

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