Project Manager

Principal Project Manager

Location – Parramatta

Temporary Full-time to 3/10/2024

Clerk Grade 11/12 , ($139,787 pa - $161,663 pa), plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

The PaTH Program – Process and Technology Harmonisation, is one of the most significant transformation programs in NSW Government history, offering a ‘once in a career opportunity’ to improve the corporate services experience across the public sector.

The program’s vision is to deliver world class customer experience and boost productivity across multiple Government Clusters, harmonising essential Government processes and services and making them easier to use, track, support, and report.

Your role

The Principal Project Manager leads and manages project teams to develop, deliver, monitor and evaluate a portfolio of strategic projects, to achieve project outcomes, and support achievement of organisational objectives.

This role within the Business Engagement team is focused on achieving business outcomes by leveraging technical solutions offered by the PaTH program.

The primary purpose of this role is to ensure business teams are ready to accept & adopt proposed technical solutions by deploying change management, learning and communication strategies. The Principal Project Manager will work with the technical teams to deliver a seamless business transition.

What you’ll do

• Lead the development and delivery of a portfolio of projects, identifying interdependencies and leveraging resources to maximise efficiencies and achieve required organisation outcomes
• Lead and oversee all aspects of project development and implementation across a portfolio of complex projects, including preparing business cases and project plans, establishing appropriate governance, identifying, allocating and managing resources, and meeting reporting requirements, to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and in line with the Agency project management methodology Develop and implement strategies and tools for the continuous monitoring and evaluation of projects, including risk and contingency management, benefits realisation, and project impact and quality measures, to identify and address issues and assess project progress and overall effectiveness
• Lead and manage project team/s, including internal and external project staff, to deliver all key project/s milestones and outcomes
• Manage stakeholder relationships through effective communication, negotiation and issues management to ensure stakeholders are engaged throughout the project and project deliverables are met
• Provide expert advice and information to stakeholders on emerging project issues and present recommendations to support project delivery in line with established plans, budgets, timeframes, policy objectives and other project priorities
• Oversee research and formulate recommendations to support evidence based project planning and decision making

What we’re looking for

The successful candidate - 

• Sets own priorities and those of any staff/project staff supervised.
• Maintains independence to develop a suitable approach in managing a unit/team, allocating resources, determining the conceptual framework towards projects and development of strategic plans.
• Has a high level of responsibility for determining appropriate unit/team actions undertaken, within government and legislative policies, and for ensuring quality control in the implementation of unit/teamwork.
• Ensures that unit/team recommendations are based on sound evidence, but at times may be required to use their judgment under pressure or in the absence of complete information or as the source of expert advice to internal stakeholders across the Department as well as externally to Ministerial level.
• Project Management experience in the role of a Project Manager in an IT Transformation project will be an advantage

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What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities.
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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Applications close 1st February 2024 at 11:59pm AEST.

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For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Deep Gahrotra on 0435 000 *** or at *************@dcj.nsw.gov.au

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