Program Manager

6 days ago

Canberra, Australia Ampersand Full time

**Duration**: 12 month with the possibility of extension

**Pay rate**: $200 - $240/Hour inclusive of super

The position requires program management and delivery leadership, as well as exceptional organisational skills, self-motivation skills, and attention to detail. The applicant must have highly developed communication and engagement skills and experience in managing highly complex programs.

**Key responsibilities**
- Lead a multi-disciplinary and diverse team of project professionals, ensuring that team members are fully informed and engaged as part of a collaborative one-team approach and worked effectively and collaboratively to achieve the program objectives and vision.
- Develop robust and flexible governance processes and implement project management methodologies to ensure Government and other legislative requirements are adhered to.
- Ensure robust risk management processes and strategies (risk, assumption, issue, and dependency management) are in place and managed effectively.
- Develop and manage project plans, schedules, and budgets to ensure that the Program implementation is on track, in scope, and within budget.
- Develop and maintain productive and influential working relationships with a range of key stakeholders including internal clients across the public service, and external system providers.
- Ensure benefit management, change management, communication, and engagement plans are designed, developed, and implemented to support and enable the whole of government Program outcomes.

**Professional / Technical Skills and Knowledge**
- Formal qualifications in Program/Project Management such as Prince2, Agile would be highly regarded but are not essential.
- Extensive expertise delivering high value projects/programs with complex, and sometimes competing objectives.
- Proven high-level leadership and management experience and effective management of a diverse workforce to deliver agreed outcomes in a changing environment.
- Clear understanding of project delivery in an ICT and public sector government environment including government policies relating to procurement, records management, and probity.
- Highly developed skills in planning, leading and co-ordinating activities to manage and implement a program from initiation to final transition into operational, business-as-usual management.
- The ability to understand client requirements, collect data, deliver analysis, and problem resolution. Identify, evaluate, and recommend options. Collaborate with, and facilitate stakeholder groups, as part of formal or informal forums.
- Track record in successfully delivering complex ICT programs and building strategic partnerships.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality outputs under tight timeframes. Plan, schedule, monitor and report on program-related activities.
- Demonstrated high-quality written and oral communication skills, including effective representation skills and strong attention to detail.

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