Project Officer

Role purpose
Reporting to the Manager, Asset Support, the Project Officer is responsible for coordinating and supporting the pipeline of upcoming development initiatives and existing asset management projects across the publicly funded health services across Victoria. These projects form part of the team's 3-year Asset Management Transformation Plan and includes projects such as large-scale asset condition assessments, AMAF compliance and development of key asset maintenance standards.
This role has a strong spotlight focus on stakeholder management, engaging and collaborating internally and externally to drive successful project outcomes for health services asset management capabilities. Positive engagement to foster good relations and support is critical in this role.
Are you
- Someone with strong technical and project skills and an ability to develop clear concise reports
- Able to critically analyse finance and performance data
- A highly organised individual, looking to work across a breadth of activities
- Passionate about strategic asset management and asset management compliance
- Flexible and Accountable: adaptable; open to new ideas; shows initiative; proactive and self-starting; seizes opportunities and acts upon them
- A team player: cooperative and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, excellent communication skills.

Knowledge and skills
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- Project management: uses understanding of political sensitivities to actively champion the project; provides guidance and support to project managers to identify risks and overcome obstacles; quickly sums up complex options and recommends a clear way forward; monitors overall project performance against project plans; influences key stakeholders to support the project.
- Problem solving: seeks all relevant information for problem-solving; liaises with stakeholders; analyses issues from different perspectives and draws sound inferences from information available; identifies and proposes workable solutions to problems; implements solutions, evaluates effectiveness and adjusts actions as required
- Self-management: invites feedback on own behaviour and impact; uses new knowledge or information about self to build a broader understanding of own behaviour and the impact it has on others; understands strong emotional reactions and seeks ways to more effectively manage them.

Personal qualities
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- Creativity and innovation: generates new ideas; draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things; actively influences events and promotes ideas; translates creative ideas into workplace improvements; reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.
- Conceptual and analytical ability: deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems; has creative ideas and can project how these can link to innovations.
- Relationship building: establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; minimises surprises.
- Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict within the group.
- Detail focus: observes fine details; identifies gaps in information; looks for logical sequences of information; highlights practical considerations of plans and activities.
- Flexibility: adaptable; open to new ideas; accepts changed priorities without undue discomfort; recognises the merits of different options and acts accordingly.

**Qualifications**:

- A tertiary qualification in project management, asset management or business management would be desirable.

Mandatory Vaccination Policy

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