Project Officer

About the Department:
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

About the Role:
As a Project Officer, you will:
Play a crucial role in delivering Network Hardware and Structured Communications Cabling infrastructure solutions for an extensive portfolio of ICT Infrastructure Projects. Every year, the Department delivers projects across its vast network of 1280+ State School sites.
You will be instrumental in ensuring that these projects are delivered in full, on cost and in time to bring about and maintain a reliable ICT infrastructure environment for schools and corporate offices.

Responsibilities Include:
You will assist the Project and Program Managers in collaborating with key internal and external stakeholders including Suppliers, to manage the end-to-end delivery of ICT infrastructure projects into the Department of Education sites. The role covers the entire Project Delivery lifecycle.
This is a fantastic opportunity to leverage your technical, managerial, and people skills to make a tangible difference in the educational landscape of Queensland. The ICT Support Services Project Delivery team prides itself on being dynamic and supportive, where your expertise will be valued, and your contributions will be recognized.

It would be highly desirable to have the following key characteristics and attributes:
Capability to support ICT projects including the timely delivery of relevant project control documents and registers, project plans and progress reports against project objectives.
Capable of prioritising, scheduling, and performing work to meet deadlines, commitments, and client service standards including managing multiple priorities and diverse stakeholder expectations.
Be a team player and support team members, with diverse skillsets, to undertake and achieve a variety of project outcomes. This includes supporting project finance and procurement specialists.
Be a competent communicator who can establish productive, professional relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
Have demonstrated conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills to research and develop solutions to challenges, clearly document workflows and systems and achieve effective results within desired timeframes.
Ability to utilise modern desktop toolsets to perform your duties. The department extensively subscribes to the Microsoft suite of desktop products. Prior experience with Microsoft Project is a plus.
At least 3 years' experience in support of delivering ICT projects.

Interested? To Apply:
Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history);
Attach a 2-page response to the How you may be assessed section of the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).

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