Program Officer

About the client:

Government department tasked with making life easier, accessible, and equitable for thousands of individuals and families across Australia. Currently seeking a Program Officer to join their busy team for a 12 month temporary assignment.

About the role:

As a Program Officer, you will coordinate and assist in the strategic planning, program and project management and policy development. In addition, you will:

• Provide business administration support, expertise and technical knowledge across a range of activities including systems, workload management, people performance, financial, staff lifecycle, knowledge and change management.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, delivering large scale IT change projects.
• Ensure effective program management processes and methodologies are followed within the program for end-to-end reporting.
• Provide accurate and specialised advice ensuring knowledge of and compliance with relevant legislation, PMO guidelines, standards, procedures and policy frameworks for supporting program delivery.
• Analysing data and preparing a range of written material including program status reports and updates, business cases, Senate Estimate submissions, Ministerial and Agency briefs, presentations and other corporate documentation.
• Working with various stakeholders and business areas across the agency, preparing project dashboards and reports for stakeholders.

About you:

The successful candidate will have:

• Proven  project or program management experience, ideally within the government or healthcare environment
• Current or have the ability to hold a Baseline Clearance
• Demonstrate strong administrative skills and attention to detail.
• Demonstrate experience in projects, PMO or business administration.
• Demonstrate good working knowledge of Microsoft office.
• Be prepared to work in a dynamic environment.

Benefits:

• Immediate start pending Federal Police Check
• 12 month Casual Temporary Assignment 
• Full time hours, Monday to Friday
• Richmond, VIC location
• $60.26 per hour + super

*** Please note the successful candidate for this role will hold Australian Citizenship and must be willing to complete a Federal Police Check ***

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