Associate Director, Major Projects Division

**Associate Directors (Multiple Roles)**

**Commercial Group**

**Major Projects Division (MPD)**
- **Employment Type**:Ongoing/Temporary** (with view to ongoing)**:

- **Employment period**:Ongoing and/or 12-month fixed terms available
- **Classification / Grade / Band**:Clerk Grade 11/12
- **Remuneration**:$145,378 - $168,130; plus Superannuation and Leave Loading
- **Location**:Sydney CBD, flexible & hybrid working options available
- **Applications Close**:Friday 29 November 2024 at 9:59am

**Role impact & contribution**

You will take a leading role within Treasury and the Major Projects Division (MPD) team, providing timely and expert advice and leadership across one or more of the three key areas: major projects, strategic transactions, and relevant policy initiatives.

The **Major Projects Division **is recruiting for the following roles:

- **Associate Director (2), Clerk Grade 11/12. **Please **click here** to access the role description.

**Role 1**: Focus on MPD’s Major Projects pillar, providing commercial and financial advice on major infrastructure, energy transition, precinct development, and capital projects throughout their lifecycle from investment decision, bid evaluation, negotiation, contract execution, delivery and operation.

**Role 2**: Focus on MPD’s Strategic Transactions pillar and financial capacity/viability policy initiatives, implementing the Financial Capacity Framework, reviewing the Financial Assessment Services Scheme, implementing the Financial Capacity Framework and leading financial due diligence, evaluation and contingency planning workstreams.

**About the Team**

The Major Projects Division (MPD) sits within NSW Treasury’s Commercial Group and is NSW Treasury’s in-house major projects and strategic transaction team. MPD provides commercial, financial and governance advice and undertakes due diligence and complex negotiations for the Treasurer and the NSW Government.

MPD is made up of three pillars:

- **Major Projects**: partners with agencies to deliver major capital projects including provision of commercial and financial advice to agencies on funding, financing, procuring and delivering major infrastructure, energy transition, precinct development and capital projects throughout the project lifecycle from investment decision, bid evaluation, negotiation, contract execution, delivery and operation.
- **Strategic Transactions**: leads the execution of transactions, financial due diligence, governance strategy and complex commercial and contract negotiations with the public and private sector on behalf of the State.
- **Policy**: develops and administers a range of policy initiatives, in collaboration with other parts of Treasury and the NSW Government, including the Financial Capacity Framework, the Financial Assessment Services Scheme, Bid Cost Contributions, PPP Guidelines and other policy imperatives. MPD also contributes towards the development of policy in the infrastructure and construction sector and promotes consistency in government procurements.

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**What you can bring to the role**

These roles will suit applicants with a range of skills and experiences and from a variety of backgrounds including those set out below. It is not expected that applicants will demonstrate all attributes referred to below.

**Major Projects pillar**:

- Experience in infrastructure, energy transition, major projects or project finance at a public or private sector organisation, legal or professional services firm.
- Experience in structuring, negotiating and executing infrastructure, energy transition or precinct developments and taking a lead role in transaction management including commercial, legal and/or financial workstreams.
- Experience in the commercial aspects of procuring and delivering infrastructure and major projects including with respect to cost and delays.
- Experience with various contracting / delivery models, risk allocation and project finance.

**Strategic Transactions pillar**:

- Financial due diligence experience in a transactions services or mergers and acquisitions team typically in a deals/transaction environment in a professional services firm.
- Insolvency, restructuring or credit banking experience that may include:

- performing independent business reviews, financial due diligence and financial capacity assessments
- providing insolvency, restructuring, turnaround, contingency planning or safe harbour advice to companies, banks and/or government.
- Experience with developing and implementing project or transactions governance and risk management frameworks.
- Experience with commercial and contractual negotiations.

**Policy pillar**:

- Sound understanding of public sector financial management or government policymaking and experience in reviewing policy submissions for implementation.
- Sound research capabilities to support and identify best practice approaches in the delivery and imple