Senior Project Manager | Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency

Senior Project Manager
Full-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency

Details: Do you want to enrich your community by providing digital government services that are so easy, they just happen? That’s what Digital Canberra is here to do. We deliver and support digital government services that are easy to access, save time, and are safe to use.

Digital Canberra is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to deliver complex ICT projects that support whole-of-government digital initiatives. This role will manage multiple mid-to-large projects concurrently, ensuring alignment with organisational goals, effective governance, and stakeholder engagement. The successful candidate will bring strong leadership and project management expertise, with a proven ability to manage cross-functional teams, drive outcomes, and navigate delivery in fast-paced corporate or government environments.

We’re looking for a proactive leader with strong project management expertise in areas such as COTS implementation, ICT infrastructure, software development, or business improvement. Ideal candidates will hold relevant qualifications or certifications (e.g., PRINCE2, AgilePM, ScrumMaster) and demonstrate exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication, and analytical skills.

If you’re passionate about delivering high-quality digital initiatives that improve public services and want to be part of a forward-thinking team shaping Canberra’s digital future, we encourage you to apply.

Refer to the position description for further information about this role. You may wish to speak to the listed Contact Officer if you have any queries once you have reviewed the position description.

What we offer you

At Digital Canberra, we offer a rewarding government career that has a direct, positive impact on your neighbourhood. You may be strategic, helping us lead technology investment decisions to build a genuinely connected Canberra. Or you may enjoy the hands‑on satisfaction of working with the latest technology to keep our hospitals, schools, and government running. At Digital Canberra, you will make a difference

As part of the ACT Public Service (ACTPS), Digital Canberra offers some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in Australia. Flexible working in the ACTPS means we provide the opportunity to work remotely (from home) or from a choice of office locations around Canberra, although the exact arrangements will be discussed with your hiring manager, based on operational needs.

Canberra is Australia’s capital – a welcoming, unique city with a quality of life that many cities aspire to. It’s the perfect place to raise children, take advantage of world‑class cultural institutions, and enjoy the great outdoors. Canberra is primed for technology evolution. As a young and growing city, the shape of our community and our digital government services will continue to change.

Just like our city, Digital Canberra is inclusive. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply. We welcome candidates who have the right to work in Australia, which may include temporary and permanent visa holders (subject to your visa conditions and security clearance restrictions).

If you want to be part of our exciting journey to transform Canberra into a digital powerhouse, apply for this job today

Eligibility/Other requirements

- Hold a current Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate (CMTEDD)-issued Personnel Vetting Program certificate or the ability to obtain and maintain a certificate is mandatory.

- Highly developed knowledge and experience in the delivery of projects in two or more of the following areas: COTS implementation, ICT infrastructure commissioning, software development, and/or business improvement.

- Tertiary level qualifications and/or certification in Project Management and Program Management are highly desirable. These include one or more of: Diploma of Project Management, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner, Agile Project Management (AgilePM) Practitioner, Certified ScrumMaster, Management of Successful Programmes (MSP) Foundation.

Notes: This is a temporary position available from 10 December 2025 for a period of up to 12 months with the possibility of permanency.

This position requires the occupant(s) to be an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia.

A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.

This position is based at a workplace designed for activity‑based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk.

Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part‑time hours, job‑sharing, flexible start, and finish times.

How to apply

Submit a copy of your curriculum vitae and a two-page pitch that addresses the “What You Require” section of the Position Description.

Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now button below.

Digital Canberra was established on the 1 July 2025, amalgamating positions which previously were advertised under Chief Ministers and Economic Development Directorate and ACT Health Directorate.

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Note

This is a temporary position available from 10 December 2025 for a period of up to 12 months with the possibility of permanency.

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