Project Management Office Lead

Join a for-purpose organisation
- Great opportunity to support Achieve to make a real difference
- Competitive salary and employee benefits, including salary packaging

**_We are currently seeking a dedicated and experienced Project Management Office Lead to join our team._**

Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, the Project Management Office Lead is responsible for enhancing and maintaining effective project management practices, ensuring successful project delivery.

This role involves implementing a Project Management Office, providing expert support, training and guidance on project management processes to internal stakeholders, and providing project portfolio reporting.

**Why Join Team Achieve?**

At Achieve, we put the people we support at the centre of everything we do. As a ‘for purpose’ organisation, we're more than just a workplace. We are a community passionate about bringing inclusion to life for people with disability.

**What reasonable adjustments can we make to our recruitment process to welcome you?**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Advise and support project teams in detailed project planning, resource scheduling, quality, and cost management.
- Introduce, standardise, and automate project management practices across the organisation.
- Track, report, and provide advice on risks, progress, and performance of projects.
- Ensure early intervention to address risk, escalate issues, and stress the importance of good project governance.
- Enhance project governance to ensure on-time, within-budget project delivery and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Lead change management processes to transition projects to operations.
- Implement post-implementation reviews (PIR), project portfolio reporting, and ensure projects align with strategic initiatives, annual budgets, and Business Unit Plans.

**To be successful in this role, you will need**:

- Proven experience in project management and establishing PMO practices.
- Strong knowledge of project management tools, methods, and best practices. Excellent communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Desire to work in a fast paced environment with competing priorites and deadlines.
- Ability to raise the maturity of the project management capacity and capability across the organisation.
- Certification in Project Management (PMP, PRINCE2) is desirable.
- Ability to use and train others to use Microsoft 365 Suite, including Microsoft Project

Achieve has been supporting people with disability for 70 years. Be part of our proud tradition.

Achieve is a registered NDIS provider delivering integrated clinical, health, social, and disability services. Join us in providing exceptional support services in accommodation, community participation supported employment, and support coordination. We operate across Greater Sydney and the Northern Rivers regions in NSW.

**What Sets Us Apart**
**Our Commitment**
At Achieve, it's more than a job. Our dedicated staff make a positive difference to the people we support each day and in turn, we support our staff. We value our team in an environment where everyone can proudly be themselves. We embrace diversity, recognising the richness that different life experiences, languages, and cultures bring to our clients and to Achieve as an organisation.

**Great employee benefits**
- Car leasing is another salary packaging option.
- Free personal and financial counselling for you and your family.
- Range of paid leave and flexible work arrangements.
- Support for a healthy lifestyle, including fitness memberships and wellness programs.
- Regular training and support to succeed in your role.
- A strong record of promoting from within.

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