Portfolio Governance Uplift Lead

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

- Location: Sydney, NSW
- Type: Fixed Term Contract (6 months)
- Hybrid role, happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity

A hands-on opportunity to drive a significant uplift in governance across the AUSPAC Divisional Change Portfolio. This role is designed for someone who thrives on building and embedding new frameworks, methodologies, and ways of working—transforming governance from its current state to a level that meets the highest standards for risk and audit reviews. You will play a pivotal part in shaping how governance is understood and practiced, ensuring the portfolio is positioned for success and resilience.

Your new role:
As Portfolio Governance Uplift Lead, you will independently assess the current governance landscape, identify gaps and opportunities, and deliver practical solutions that elevate effectiveness. You will design, document, align, and embed enhanced governance frameworks and processes, ensuring robust oversight and insightful reporting.

You will:

- Define the distinct roles and content expectations for the Change Portfolio Executive Committee (portfolio level governance) versus Initiative Steercos (initiative level governance), ensuring the portfolio level remit and content is value adding and non-duplicative
- Enhance Executive Committee pack standing agenda item content to provoke the right discussions and enable effective decision making.
- Improve processes for managing new and initiative change requests, including updated templates, quality assurance and pre-Executive Committee GM-level discussion forum (i.e. the Portfolio “Front Door”).
- Define and embed processes that provide effective governance for Agile Value Streams, while preserving their flexibility.

About you:
You are an experienced governance professional who excels at delivering tangible outcomes in complex environments. You are proactive, resourceful, and comfortable operating independently to create and embed practical governance solutions that drive strategic alignment and reporting clarity. You are motivated by the challenge of building new frameworks and processes, and you bring credibility and expertise to every interaction.

You will:

- Deliver highly polished, clear, and digestible PowerPoint content suitable for executive-level audiences.
- Prepare and facilitate stakeholder briefings and alignment workshops, effectively navigating differing viewpoints and providing constructive challenge.
- Bring credibility and expertise as a Project Governance SME in interactions with Head-of and GM-level stakeholders.
- Develop and embed governance frameworks, approaches, and ways of working from the ground up.
- Produce high-quality, user-friendly Excel templates to support governance processes and reporting.

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- ‘Hybrid Working’ - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest
- Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- Voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards
- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI