Program Delivery Manager

**AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN NEEDED (BASELINE SECURITY CLEARANCE PREFERRED)**

**Contract Duration**:

- 24 months (12 months initially with 2 extensions of 6 months)

**Location of work -**ACT, VIC, NSW

**Working arrangements** - Hybrid

**Key duties and responsibilities**

The Program Delivery Manager is a hands-on, delivery-focused role that coordinates all the program delivery streams across programs. The role will be responsible for leading multiple streams delivering multiple digital and data products, business engagement and operational change management, and ensuring delivery is on time, on budget, and to plan.

This is a complex and fast-moving environment that is committed to achieving significant benefits for departmental and industry stakeholders. This role requires a seasoned and highly experienced Program Delivery Manager with a strong track record in delivering $100m+ digital transformation programs:

- Ensuring the strategic alignment of products with the STEPS and/or TFTM program roadmap with the vision and business goals.
- Lead and direct the teams in their delivery, business engagement, and operational change management to ensure the overarching program plan is fit for purpose and delivery time-frames are locked in and met.
- Ensuring workable plans and controls are in place and actively used to deliver and monitor the program.
- Overseeing program risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits management at the whole of program level.
- Advising and reporting to executive leadership on all aspects of the program.

**Skills & Experience**
- **Strong track record in large-scale ($100m+) digital program execution and delivery into service across either the private or public sector, or both.**:

- **Proven ability as a Program Delivery Manager to plan and phase the delivery of a complex program of work with multiple stakeholders using agile techniques.**:

- Proven ability to manage multiple teams delivering multiple concurrent projects, making changes to existing systems and building new capabilities
- Strong interpersonal skills with extensive experience with unifying the views of senior executives, external industry stakeholders and departmental staff people on development of products that will deliver the program’s vision and goals.
- **Proven track record of working with large number of Product Managers, Project Managers and Delivery Leads to ensure milestones are met on time and to plan.**:

- Extensive experience overseeing program risks, issues, dependencies and benefits management at the whole of program level.
- Working with complex digital and data programs of work, with strong attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Gravitas and presence with the ability to influence with and without authority.

**Criteria**

**Essential criteria**

**1. Strong track record in large-scale ($100m+) digital program execution and delivery into service across either the private or public sector, or both.**

**2. Proven ability as a Program Delivery Manager to plan and phase the delivery of a complex program of work with multiple stakeholders using agile techniques.**

3. Proven ability to manage multiple teams delivering multiple concurrent projects, making changes to existing systems and building new capabilities

4. Strong interpersonal skills with extensive experience with unifying the views of senior executives, external industry stakeholders and departmental staff people on development of products that will deliver the program’s vision and goals.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Contract
Contract length: 24 months

Pay: $1,200.00 - $1,350.00 per day

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (required)