Project Officer

Role purpose
The Project Officer will support the Project Director and project management team to deliver the $595.7m Ballarat Base Hospital redevelopment (BBHR) including planning, managing client relationships, engagement and management of consultants and contractors. The role includes providing project administrative support to the project management team including meeting management and project financial and performance reporting. The role requires a minimum of two days week working from VHBA's Melbourne offices and attendance at the Ballarat site as appropriate.
Key stakeholders also include Department of Treasury & Finance, Department of Premier & Cabinet, Department of Health, the project design teams, consultants, contractors and other relevant areas of Victorian Health Building Authority (VHBA). The role will also involve working with Health Services and providing support with facilitation and secretariat as required.
An appropriate tertiary qualification in architecture, building, engineering (or equivalent) and experience in the administration of construction contracts is desired but not essential.
The position is based in the High Value, High Risk program of the VHBA. The High Value, High Risk (HVHR) program delivers projects categorised as HVHR by the Department of Treasury and Finance. These projects typically exceed $150m in value and are highly complex.
Key stakeholders include the project client, the project design teams, consultants, contractors and other relevant policy/program areas within VHBA/the department. The role may also involve working with relevant Project partner Health Service/s and providing support with facilitation and secretariat as required.

**Are you**:

- Passionate about improving the delivery of public sector capital projects?
- Committed to delivery of sustainable services to Victorian communities?
- A strong team player with the ability to work autonomously to deliver outcomes?

Knowledge and skills
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- Problem solving: seeks all relevant information for problem solving; investigates and probes for the facts; liaises with stakeholders; analyses issues from different perspectives and draws sound inferences from information available; identifies and proposes workable solutions to problems.
- Project management: assist with project plans where objectives are clearly defined and action steps for achieving them are clearly specified; regularly communicates with and supports project team members; ensures project objectives are met by anticipating and managing potential and emerging issues.
- Self-management: plans and prioritises work to ensure outcomes are achieved; resists the temptation to react immediately without taking time to think things through; uses strengths to contribute constructively and consciously manages the impact of own weaknesses; anticipates own reactions to situations and prepares accordingly.

Personal qualities
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- Detail focus: observes fine details; identifies gaps in information; looks for logical sequences of information; highlights practical considerations of plans and activities.
- Flexibility: adaptable; open to new ideas; accepts changed priorities without undue discomfort; recognises the merits of different options and acts accordingly.
- Relationship building: establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; minimises surprises.
- Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others' feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict within the group.

**Qualifications**:
An appropriate tertiary qualification in architecture, building, engineering or equivalent would be desirable.
Mandatory Vaccination Policy

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