Epmo Portfolio Planner

Synopsis:
EPMO Portfolio Planner
- **Salary Range Band 7 $107,570 - $120,376 plus 11.5% super**:

- **Located at St Kilda Town Hall with flexible working arrangements possible**

**About City of Port Phillip**

We are a vibrant and diverse inner-city council stretching 20kms from South to Port Melbourne along the stunning bay beaches down to Elwood and out to St Kilda East with around 1000 people who all work together to deliver more than 100 programs and services to our engaged community of residents, businesses and visitors. What does that mean? Think, childcare, libraries, parks, recreation, waste rubbish collection, road maintenance, family and youth services, property & assets, city planning & development, customer experience, digital technology, governance, people, culture and safety, and of course South Melbourne Market City of Port Phillip has zero tolerance for child abuse and is a committed Child Safe organisation.

**What’s the role all about**

Are you a passionate and driven people person with an enterprise-based approach to project, program and portfolio management. Are you looking to contribute to the successful delivery of a large range of projects that will benefit our community? This role will see you lead organisational capability uplift in portfolio, program and project management scheduling and planning for the EPMO.

**Your will need to**
- Initiate and maintain an accurate enterprise view of Council’s project portfolio using the project management system - PLM - a TechnologyOne system.
- Support the Manager, EPMO in the annual portfolio build and planning of the 10-year project portfolio by providing visibility key project milestones, constraints, resourcing requirements, and alignment to budget phasing.

We are a passionate and driven team who all work together to deliver outcomes that positively benefit our community.

The position is full-time permanent.

**What you might do**
- Lead and manage framework maturity, effective portfolio management to enable appropriate assurance and give our project community the right tools and processes.
- Implement, report progress and evaluate on an agreed program of capability development requirements for project and program management.
- Support uplift and adoption of effective project planning/scheduling standards, practices, and processes, across the diverse enterprise project portfolio.
- Develop and maintain an accurate enterprise view of Council’s project portfolio using the project management system.
- Support the organisation in the annual portfolio build and planning of the 10-year project portfolio by providing visibility key project milestones, constraints, resourcing requirements, and alignment to budget phasing.
- Provide guidance and coaching to Project Managers in the establishment and maintenance of their project schedules including milestones, critical path, resourcing, constraints, contingency and inter-dependency management.

**Who we are looking for.**
- A tertiary qualification in Project Management or post graduate and several years of subsequent experience or lesser formal qualifications and extensive and diverse experience.
- Advanced skills in the use of project management and scheduling tools.
- Understanding of project management methods, particularly project status tracking and reporting.
- Experience and proficiency in providing analysis of project, program and portfolio schedule performance.
- Experience, knowledge and proficiency in portfolio planning processes and methods and their relationship to broader organisational planning.
- Knowledge of budgeting, accounting and financial processes as they relate to the management of projects in a government environment.

**Our work environment**

We love what we do and are all proud to work at the City of Port Phillip. Yes, we are local council, and we are one with vibrancy, passion and ambition who are a welcoming, health conscious, diverse and inclusive. Our Main location at the iconic St Kilda Town Hall offers a heritage and modern open plan hub to work from where people can collaborate and develop both professionally and personally whilst planning and delivering a range of important services and programs to the community.

Proudly as one we all take accountability to put our community first. Together we work, creatively and strategically we think and with courage comes growth and with integrity we perform.

**What’s in it for you?**
- We offer a hybrid working model with our core setup being 50-60% in the office depending on team requirements and welcome further conversation to meet your working style and needs.
- Be supported and empowered to be your best by a passionate leadership team that encourages collaboration and innovation.
- Our work hubs are located close to our very own Child Care centres making accessing childcare a breeze
- Career development opportunities within your team and/or across council plus a great study assistance allowance of up to $4