Principal Project Manager

Join a Team Transforming Healthcare Through Technology with Metro South Health.
Join Metro South Health's Digital Health & Informatics team as a Permanent Full-Time Principal Project Manager and lead the delivery of large-scale, complex digital health projects that transform patient care and strengthen Queensland's digital health landscape.
Your New Role
As a Principal Project Manager within Digital Project Delivery, Digital Health & Informatics, you'll lead the successful planning, coordination, and delivery of large, complex digital health projects. You'll apply best-practice project management principles to deliver innovative solutions that improve health outcomes and support Metro South Health's digital transformation goals. You will:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of major digital health projects within budget, schedule, and quality standards.
• Develop and manage project plans, budgets, and documentation covering scope, risks, benefits, governance, and quality.
• Apply PRINCE2, Agile, or similar frameworks to drive structure, transparency, and efficiency.
• Foster stakeholder engagement and collaboration across clinical, executive, and technical teams.
• Provide strategic advice and expert project management guidance to governance groups and steering committees.
• Lead multidisciplinary project teams, supporting performance, capability, and professional growth.
• Promote continuous improvement by refining project management processes and tools across Digital Health & Informatics.

About You
You're an experienced digital health project leader with a proven record of managing complex initiatives from concept to completion. You excel at bringing structure to complexity, building trusted relationships, and delivering technology solutions that make a difference. You'll demonstrate your success with:

• Extensive experience managing multiple complex digital or ICT projects, ideally in a health environment.
• Strong working knowledge of PRINCE2, Agile, or PMBOK project management methodologies.
• Proven ability to develop and manage business cases, budgets, risk frameworks, and project governance models.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills across all levels of an organisation.
• Ability to lead, coach, and motivate multidisciplinary teams toward shared goals and successful outcomes.
• Exceptional organisational and analytical skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results.
• A proactive, collaborative approach aligned with Metro South Health's values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence.

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What We Can Offer You

• Flexible work arrangements to support work-life balance.
• Opportunities to shape innovative projects that directly improve healthcare delivery.
• A diverse, inclusive, and values-driven culture where your contribution matters.
• Access to professional development and leadership growth pathways within Queensland Health.
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together .

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