Project Manager

Closes: 04 November 2025

Classification:
Senior Officer Grade C

Salary:
$125,344 - $134,527 plus superannuation

Position No:
01484

Directorate:
Digital Canberra

Advertised (Gazettal date):
14 October 2025

Contact Officer:
Alyson Lu on or

Details:
Do you want to enrich your community by providing digital government services that are so easy, they just happen? That's what Digital Canberra is here to do. We deliver and support digital government services that are easy to access, save time, and are safe to use. Join Digital Canberra and help deliver smart, secure, and seamless digital services that improve the people that live and work in our beautiful city and surrounding area.

At Digital Canberra, you'll work with passionate technologists, policy experts, and designers to build and sustain services that matter. We value curiosity, collaboration, and creativity, and we're committed to helping you grow.

Digital Canberra is seeking a dynamic and experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of ICT projects within the Initiative Delivery team. This role is pivotal in driving digital transformation across the ACT Government, working within a multi-disciplinary environment to deliver innovative, customer-focused solutions. You'll manage small to mid-sized projects concurrently, ensuring alignment with delivery frameworks and stakeholder expectations. With hybrid working arrangements based in Gungahlin and flexibility to work from customer sites or home, this position offers a collaborative and inclusive workplace culture that values respect, integrity, and innovation.

We're looking for a proactive leader with strong project management expertise in areas such as COTS implementation, ICT infrastructure, software development, or business improvement. Ideal candidates will hold relevant qualifications or certifications (e.g., PRINCE2, AgilePM, ScrumMaster) and demonstrate exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication, and analytical skills. If you're passionate about delivering high-quality digital initiatives that improve public services and want to be part of a forward-thinking team shaping Canberra's digital future, we encourage you to apply.

Refer to the Position Description for further information about this role. You may wish to speak to the listed Contact Officer if you have any queries once you have reviewed the Position Description.

What we offer you

At Digital Canberra, we offer a rewarding government career that has a direct, positive impact on the Canberra community. You may be strategic, helping us lead technology investment decisions to build a genuinely connected Canberra. Or you may enjoy the hands-on satisfaction of working with the latest technology to keep our hospitals, schools, and government running. At Digital Canberra, you will make a difference

As part of the ACT Public Service (ACTPS), Digital Canberra offers some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in Australia. Flexible working in the ACTPS means we provide the opportunity to work remotely (from home) or from a choice of office locations around Canberra, although the exact arrangements will be discussed with your hiring manager, based on operational needs.

Canberra is Australia's capital – a welcoming, unique city with a quality of life that many cities aspire to. It's the perfect place to raise children, take advantage of world-class cultural institutions, and enjoy the great outdoors. Canberra is primed for technology evolution. As a young and growing city, the shape of our community and our digital government services will continue to change.

Just like our city, Digital Canberra is inclusive. Our work spans many technology disciplines, and our workforce is culturally and linguistically diverse. We welcome candidates who have the right to work in Australia, which may include temporary and permanent visa holders (subject to your visa conditions and security clearance restrictions).

Ready to make a difference? Apply now and help shape Canberra's digital future

Eligibility/Other requirements:
An ACT Government issued Personnel Vetting Program certificate is required for this position and will form part of the pre-employment process prior to commencement.

Notes:
This is a temporary position available from 24 November 2025 for a period of up to 12 months with the possibility of permanency.

This position requires the occupant(s) to be an Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia. This position requires a current ACT Government Baseline security clearance or the ability to obtain and hold one.

A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.

This position will be moving to a new workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk.

Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part-time hours, job-sharing, flexible start, and finish times.

How to apply:
Submit a copy of your curriculum vitae and a two-page pitch that addresses the "What You Require" section of the Position Description.

Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now button below.
Digital Canberra
Digital Canberra was established on the 1 July 2025, amalgamating positions which previously were advertised under Chief Ministers and Economic Development Directorate and ACT Health Directorate.

Note

This is a temporary position available from 24 November 2025 for a period of up to 12 months with the possibility of permanency.