Portfolio Lead

1 week ago

North Geelong, Victoria, Australia WorkSafe Victoria Full time
  • $157,266.00 per annum + superannuation
  • Full Time Fixed Term role until 30/06/2025
  • Hybrid, flexible working (minimum three days a week in the Geelong office)

Come and join a progressive and rewarding business to protect our Victorian workers and return them home safely every day. The WorkSafe Project Management Practice is part of the Enterprise Delivery division which supports the delivery of WorkSafe strategic initiatives to deliver outcomes aligned to our purpose in reducing workplace harm and improving outcomes for injured workers.

Purpose

This is a fantastic opportunity for a project leader to support the continued establishment of an enterprise project management practice for WorkSafe. Working with a highly engaged leadership team, the Portfolio Lead plays a key strategic leadership role in the practice, accountable for leading and supporting a team of project delivery professionals, building out best practice delivery standards and capabilities and work closely with senior leadership team and key stakeholders in their assigned portfolio of work to ensure high quality delivery services are being provided.

This role will be given the opportunity to bring thought leadership, strategic thinking and apply agile ways of working to their delivery approaches, working with other practice leads such as design, change management and business analysis to provide an integrated delivery approach. The role also requires the ability to shape up new initiatives, model to the team best practice ways of working and support the project team when projects are off track or require attention.

Key accountabilities of this role will include:

  • Using a range of formal and informal leadership tools, be accountable for the performance, resource allocation and recruitment of a team of project professionals to deliver high-quality and timely outcomes for WorkSafe, using advanced project management delivery skills with strong focus on the client experience.
  • Lead the ongoing development and promotion of model project management best practices, standards, competencies, behaviours, knowledge and skills.
  • Lead the provision of project management advice and support to Senior Leadership Team and Program Directors within assigned portfolio to ensure the successful delivery of all portfolio initiatives.
  • Build WorkSafe's internal project management and agile capability through recruitment, onboarding, development and capacity management of project management capability across the practice in line with demand
  • Provide leadership in the development and implementation of strategies to entrench the value associated with project management and the practice within the portfolio.

Please click here to take a look at the Position Description provided for additional information on accountabilities for this role.

About you

You will bring a diverse variety of leadership tools combined with demonstrated experience and results in leading large teams of project management professionals assigned to enterprise-wide strategic programs.

You are a team and performance oriented person who enjoys leading, delivering and making an impact on your team and stakeholders. In addition, you will be able to demonstrate the following skills:

  • Experience in leading project management professionals delivering in both traditional and iterative delivery approaches. Extensive practical experience in waterfall and/or agile project delivery frameworks / methodologies, and ability to bring 'fresh' ideas to the team
  • Proven leadership, communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills including coaching, facilitation, influencing, negotiation and liaising skills, and the ability to adapt these to a diverse range of stakeholders and contexts.
  • Excellent capability building expertise to build high performance teams including defining, shaping, and improving capability that compliments the context of enterprise-wide needs. Establishing a psychologically safe environment facilitating the unconstrained development of project management professionals.
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills with the ability to establish credibility quickly and gain a reputation as a trusted advisor.
  • Demonstrated organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks, work accurately with attention to detail, and meet deadlines

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Business, Technology, Engineering or related field
  • A tertiary qualification in project management or equivalent.
  • Relevant professional qualifications in both traditional and agile delivery (PMBOK, PRINCE2, SAFe, or PMI-DAD etc)

Highly desirable

  • Advanced project management certification (MSP, MoP, PgMP, PfMP, CPPD, CPPE, ChPP etc)

Working with Us

We pride ourselves on being a great place to work and offer flexibility to facilitate work/life balance.

WorkSafe employees enjoy: Mental and physical health and wellbeing programs | Flexible working | Discounted gym & pool memberships | Supporting work environment | WELL rated building | Active Social Club | Career opportunities and working for your Community

What's next?

Applications close 11:00PM, Monday 27th May 2024. Click the link to apply, and join us in making a difference to Victorian lives.

Only people with the right to work in Australia may apply for this position. You may be required to undergo a National Police Check (and Medical Assessment) as part of the recruitment process.

Candidate screening may take place prior to the advertisement closing, so get your application in.

For further enquiries please contact Alysha Grandy via email

About Us

At WorkSafe our passion for the wellbeing of Victorian workers brings us together. Our people come from a wide range of professions and with no two days ever being the same, diverse thinking comes naturally to us. As we build the WorkSafe of the future we're committed to delivering industry best practice to our people, our customers and the community.

Our Future

WorkSafe's Strategy has our core purpose front of mind – reducing workplace harm and improving outcomes for injured workers. We don't shy away from the importance of our purpose to the Victorian community, that's why we have a stated ambition to be world leading.

We want Victoria to be the safest place to work in Australia and one of the safest in the world; and we aspire to be a world leader in return to work after a workplace injury.

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