Job description
The key duties of the position include
The Role
In this role you will manage and lead a small team that communicates with Air Warfare Centre's units and Defence's delivery agencies for facilities and ICT and their contracted service providers. Your position plays a crucial role in defining, assessing and prioritising current and future facilities requirements, including oversight of facility ICT requirements for Air Warfare Centre's units.
You will develop and refine requirement documentation, with facilities users in AWC directorates and units, justifying capability improvements for facilities against reported capability deficiencies or development initiatives to accommodate future demands and prioritise them through developing business cases and briefs. You will monitor and report the progress of programs that deliver facilities projects and support sustainment of Air Force facilities and develop processes that monitor and manage user input to these requirements.
About our Team
The AWC Facilities Manager will require, or will be required to develop, an in-depth knowledge of Defence's Facilities processes, decision-making in Defence and policy requirements. You will have in-depth knowledge of the Project Management function and are responsible for the implementation, development, compliance and review of policies and procedures relevant to their work within that function.
The AWC Facilities Manager will be responsible for actively managing key stakeholder relationships between HQ AWC, AWC Directorates and Units, HQ Air Command, Air Force HQ, relevant Security and Estate Group (SEG) & Chief Information Officer Group (CIOG) projects and will be required to identify relevant stakeholder expectations and concerns to develop and communicate methodologies and practices to achieve outcomes. This will include leading AWC infrastructure review meetings, attending working level meetings and representing AWC at Headquarters Air Command meetings on facilities
Our Ideal Candidate
We are looking for a leader who can manage a small team of public servants and also engage with military staff members. You will be a mid-career professional with an interest in project management and facilities, developing solutions and getting projects approved to deliver these solutions. You will be familiar with project management processes, developing and documenting user requirements into business cases, and monitoring projects through to completion.
Your advanced communication skills will be necessary to provide high quality written and verbal advice to Air Force executives to speak for the needs of technical workforces when dealing with service providers.