Portfolio Governance Manager

**Alfred Health**

Alfred Health is a leader in health care delivery, improvement, research and education. We are the main provider of health services to people living in the inner southeast suburbs of Melbourne, from ambulatory to inpatient and home and community-based services.
- **Permanent ongoing position**:

- ** Full time, 80 hours per fortnight including an ADO**:

- ** Classification code - HS7**:

- ** Attractive remuneration on offer and various staff benefits**

**The Department - Digital Health Transformation**

The Digital Health division is responsible for enabling clinical staff to deliver timely, quality care to our patients and carers through innovative use of information technologies, and through strategic management of information and data across the organisation. The Transformation program is responsible for strategic development and execution, uplifting capability and driving change to modernising working practices.

**The Role - Position Summary**

The Portfolio Governance Manager will be responsible for driving the strategic direction for establishment of an Agile TMO Centre of Excellence (COE), managing day to day project/program governance and across the divisional portfolio of projects, including the delivery of strategic Transformation initiatives. This role will ensure that projects are executed effectively and efficiently, assuring delivery on time and within budget across the portfolio lifecycle - encompassing all aspects of portfolio governance, definition, optimisation, value protection and benefits realisation. This will be done through the establishment of best in class industry project standards, processes, enabling tools and training

The purpose of the role will be to define and design the future state portfolio governance strategy, Agile operating model and provide effective support, governance and oversight of the strategic portfolio of programs and projects, in line with best practice industry standards, principles and processes ensuring the right projects are undertaken at the right time.

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Higher tertiary qualifications (Bachelor's/Master's degree) in Business/ICT/Information Systems
- Formal Agile portfolio/program/project and / or change management certifications is essential
- Expert-level knowledge and experience with ITIL, Agile ePMO governance, Disciplined Agile Frameworks and SAFe / other Agile delivery methodologies (LPM/SPM), CI/CD, DevOps is essential
- MBA, Lean Six Sigma Green / Black Belt, HCD, Systems / Design Thinking is highly desirable
- Demonstrable leadership experience working in cross-functional Agile teams or large-scale enterprise-wide transformation programs as a PMO/ePMO leader / Strategic Portfolio Manager
- Ability to assume strategic project management and Product Ownership responsibility for enterprise-wide PPM tooling platforms such as Clarity, Planview, PMO 365, JIRA Align etc.
- Advanced understanding and experience with Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, Waterfall, etc. and exposure to AZURE Boards, Rally, SharePoint, Trello, MIRO, Confluence, Apptio, Power BI etc. would be useful
- Direct responsibility for leading and managing direct and dotted line reports, planning, organising and setting the direction of the organisations strategic project portfolio management
- 5+ years of experience working in an agile / scrum environment with a shown appreciation for large enterprise standards as well managing and coaching in an Agile PMO
- Budget, cost, profitability management skills and knowledge of resource management tools.
- Experience presenting business plans and strategies to Leadership, internal and external stakeholders
- Sophisticated financial management and data analysis skills with ROI, NPV, etc.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent judgement and ability to identify and resolve challenging, complex, and difficult issues to develop solutions that address root causes.
- Ability to develop and deliver coaching, mentoring and training to small and large groups.
- Previous experience with system implementations and/or project and program management
- Proven experience working in close collaboration with a range of internal and external stakeholders to establish a culture that values agility, transparency, experimentation, and continuous learning
- A natural people person with an ability to foster collaboration among team members
- Excellent time management, planning, delivery, facilitation and stakeholder management skills
- Knowledge of financial budgeting / forecasting and executive reporting, with an ability to craft, track, measure and report on program delivery using relevant metrics and KPI dashboards
- Pragmatic and diplomatic approach with influencing senior stakeholders adopt best practice methodologies to help achieve strategic business outcomes through servant leadership
- Meticulous attention to detail, self-starter and commitment to ongoing professional development