Master Scheduler

**AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN WITH A BASELINE SECURITY CLEARANCE**

**Job details**

**ICT Master Schedulers play a key role in supporting the successful delivery of complex ICT projects such as**:

- Develop and maintain a consolidated branch master schedule
- Work with project managers, technical leads and PMO teams to align timelines, milestones and resources allocations
- Conduct regular schedule reviews and status updates with stakeholders
- Identify and monitor interdependence and risks across multiple projects, provide forward planning insights for governance and executive decision making.

**Key duties and responsibilities**

**The Specified Personnel will be responsible for providing the following deliverables including but not limited to**:

- Developing a branch level project by creating and maintaining a consolidated, deconflicted master schedule that covers all approved and pipeline projects by financial year;
- Scheduling key millstones, interdependencies, delivery phases, and high-level timeframes;
- Integrating resource availability and incorporating workforce data availability by developing team's skillsets, project through BAU allocation, and capacity constraints, to ensure the schedule is realistic and achievable;
- Supporting project sequencing and prioritizing key tasks by identifying milestones that directly affect project delivery timeframes;
- Analysing high risk project overlaps and recommending schedules adjustments to avoid delays and improve efficiency;
- Identifying interdependencies and schedule risks by mapping and monitoring cross-project dependencies, highlighting the risks and schedule conflicts;
- Maintaining dashboard reporting and outputs such as Gantt charts, milestone views, heat maps, tailored for use in executive briefings and project boards.

**Specified Personnel will be expected to transfer skills and knowledge to departmental staff and ensure appropriate documentation is stored in accordance with the Department’s recordkeeping policy and practices.**

**The Specified Personnel will also be responsible for producing the following deliverables, including but not limited to**:

- Develop a master Scheduler Toolkit and Templates;
- Maintain and update schedule;
- Deliver schedule walkthroughs to project managers and team leads,
- Interpret schedule reports;
- Provide accurate and timely data.

**All deliverables performed by the specified personnel must**:

- be performed or delivered promptly and without delay in accordance with the timeframes notified by the buyer from time to time; and
- meet the assessment and performance criteria set out in any monitoring and performance assessment processes notified to the seller from time to time.

**Technical skills**

ICT project Master Scheduling, proficiency in Microsoft Project, Power BI, SharePoint, data analysis, ICT workforce planning.

**Essential criteria**

**1. Minimum of 2 years’ experience in ICT infrastructure project environments with demonstrated understanding of typical delivery timeframes, resource constraints, and interdependencies.**

**2. Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining integrated program level schedules for complex ICT programs, including milestone planning, sequencing, deconfliction, and schedule risk identification**

**3. Proven ability to incorporate workforce availability and capacity data into scheduling, including aligning resource constraints (e.g. project VS BAU allocations, skillsets) to project timelines.**

**4. Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skillset with a demonstrated ability to work with project managers, workforce planners, ICT technical teams, and governance bodies to collect, validate, and maintain accurate data.**

**Desirable criteria**

**1. Proven experience delivering the types of outputs outlined in the summary of work to be done including Development of branch level project master schedule and Project sequencing and Prioritization.**

**2. Proven experience delivering schedules in an ICT Infrastructure environment including development of branch level project master schedule and Project sequencing and Prioritization.**

**3. Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with project managers, technical teams, and executive.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 36 months

Pay: $145.00 - $160.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Application Question(s):

- MUST BE AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)