AddressSouthern Cross Care QLD has an exciting opportunity for a proactive Project Manager with a passion for delivering impactful projects and driving positive change. This role is a fixed term 12 month contract.
What can Southern Cross Care Queensland offer you?
- Competitive salary package + benefit of NFP salary sacrifice options
- Opportunity to join a supportive organisation and talented Business Solutions team
- Great staff culture
- Financial support programs
- Employee Assistance Program for employees and their families
- Purpose driven organisation making a real difference
- Convenient location with free parking onsite
Key Responsibilities
- Project Management: Oversee multiple exciting business and system initiatives.
- Team Player: Work with multi-disciplinary teams to transition to new business systems, ensuring changes to established processes are smooth and effective.
- Planning and Design: Use project management tools and techniques to plan, design, and deliver assigned projects, ensuring timely and user-friendly outcomes
- Documentation: Develop and maintain project-related documents and reports, including project briefs, management plans, status reports, and risk/issues registers.
- Collaboration: Work closely with teams to ensure seamless transitions, providing support and guidance.
What will you bring to the role? You will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and have effective communication and interpersonal skills. As well as having a confident and positive personality, you will ideally possess:
- Relevant undergraduate/post-graduate qualifications in a related discipline.
- Industry-recognized project management qualification (e.g., PMBOK, Agile etc.) preferred.
- Minimum of five years' experience in a similar Project Manager role, preferably in the aged care, human services, or not-for-profit industry
- Proven track record of successful project delivery and stakeholder influence, with responsibility for project schedule, budget, scope, risk, and communication plans.
- Demonstrate diverse project experience across business systems, process improvement and embedding change.
- Proactive approach, with strong partnership, collaboration, and relationship focus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with structured project management methodologies (e.g., PMBOK, Prince2, Agile) and practical application for stakeholder engagement.
- Strong evidence of embedding change and working closely with non-technical stakeholders.
- Above all else, you will have a kind, friendly, and trustworthy personality, with excellent listening skills. What's important to us is that you evidence a passion for people and business improvement. The Aged Care sector is facing major change and you will need to be adaptable and agile in your approach to delivering assigned projects.
- Willingness to travel within Regional Queensland and other States in Australia, including overnight stays.
- You must be based locally.
Southern Cross Care Queensland (SCCQ) is a Catholic not-for-profit organisation established by the Knights of the Southern Cross, more than 40 years ago. They saw a need to provide compassionate care and inclusive service to some of the most vulnerable, the ageing population, in the community.
Since then, SCCQ has grown to employ over 1000 staff caring for and supporting more than 2000 people across 13 residential aged care homes, 5 retirement villages, 28 social houses, the National Disability and Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and home care services in metropolitan and rural Queensland.
We are passionate about growing communities where best lives are lived, and serving the needs of our residents and clients with compassion and care is, as always, at the heart of what we do.
At SCCQ, we are just as focused on creating a culture where every person matters. Our culture program, Known & Loved, is unique to Southern Cross Care Queensland, enabling staff to build genuine community connections with each other and those we serve.
How can you apply?
If you believe you are a Project Manager with the qualifications and experience needed to fill this role and are ready to make a difference and help us grow communities where best lives are lived, then we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!
If you have any queries around Southern Cross Care QLD ‘s recruitment process or about the role please contact us at **********@sccqld.com.au
Southern Cross Care Queensland is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate the diversity across our entire team and welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Please note that all employment offers will be conditional upon a satisfactory NDIS workers screen, the right to work in Australia and maintaining an up to date flu vaccination status.
Our Mission: Inspired by Catholic moral and social teachings which value and respect human life and the dignity of the individual, we will provide a quality of care and accommodation to meet the needs of all who place their trust in us.
Additional information
- Competitive salary package + benefit of NFP salary sacrifice options
- Great staff culture and organisation
- Convenient location
