Program Planning Specialist

**What’s the role?**

The Program Planning Specialist is an operations focused-role supporting delivery enablement of the prioritised roadmap for Technology, Digital and Data (TDD). This position is directly responsible for coordinating the resource & technology capacity planning view aligned to roadmap delivery with accountability for identifying and clearly raising any risks, issues or dependencies.

**Responsibilities**

+ Coordinate and own the resource and technology capacity planning view aligned to roadmap delivery for both in-flight and pipeline initiatives with accountability for identifying and clearly raising any risks, issues or dependencies.

+ Work directly with the VMO, PMO, as well as relevant platform managers / heads-of and resource managers to ensure the capacity planning view is accurate and up-to-date

+ Create and distribute relevant updates on the planning view to key stakeholders / SLT as needed

+ Assess and create high-level sequenced schedules for pipeline initiatives as needed

**Who are you?**

+ 2-3 years experience within the media or technology industries (or equivalent experience)

+ Project management or PMO familiarity is valuable

+ High-level of attention to detail and ability to summarise complex information concisely

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills

+ Excellent facilitation, collaboration, negotiation, and presentation skills

+ Focused and versatile team player who is comfortable under pressure, with ambiguity, frequent change, or unpredictability

+ Familiarity with project management concepts & frameworks

**News Benefits**

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:
+ **Exclusively ours** - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family

+ **Health & wellbeing** - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)

+ **Time off** - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.

+ **Helping you grow** - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognition

+ **Financial wellbeing** - Support on making the most of your money

+ **Perks & discounts** - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services

+ **Giving back** - Make a difference to our communities.

+ **Workplace Inclusion and facilities** - Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms

**Who are we?**

News Corp Australia is the nation’s most influential media organisation, operating more than 150

household-name brands across print, digital and multimedia. We lead the way in travel, fashion, food,

health, homes and lifestyle, and we are the largest publisher across print and digital, reaching more

than 16 million Australians each month.

**What’s next?**

**Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion** _We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know._

**Category**:
Technology, Digital and Data

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