Senior Project Manager

• Permanent full-time opportunity for an experienced Project Manager
• St Kilda location, flexible & hybrid working available
• Internationally recognised, membership-based specialist medical college

About us:The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) incorporating the Faculty of Pain Medicine, is an internationally recognised specialist medical education institution responsible for the training, examinations, specialist qualification, and continuing professional development of all anaesthetists and pain medicine specialists in Australia and New Zealand.The college's purpose is to serve our communities by leading high quality patient care in anaesthesia, perioperative and pain medicine, optimizing health and reducing the burden of pain.About the opportunity:The primary role of the Senior Project Manager is to provide project management services to ANZCA's projects (both strategic improvement and compliance). This includes, effective management of scope, schedules, stakeholders, project finances, issues, risks dependencies and changes for all projects to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.This position reports to the Head of Projects.Direct Reports

• Business Analyst
• Product Owner

About the team:The Project Services team is passionate about looking after our stakeholders, providing quality, timely deliverables and contributing to project success. We are a supportive, engaged and collaborative team.Keys to your success:You will bring your demonstrated experience in digital, website, training management solutions &/or HR / Payroll implementations and customised applications combined with expertise on project management best practices.Specifically, you will have:Essential:

• Strong experience with project delivery in information technology including:
• A Bachelors' degree in business, computer science/information technology or relevant discipline
• Sound experience in project management, leading projects end to end
• A good understanding of leading project methodologies and frameworks
• Strong knowledge of the standard development lifecycle
• Strong technical / infrastructure knowledge
• Experience with Delivery models such as Waterfall and Agile
• A project management qualification such as Prince2, PMP
• A minimum of 8 years project management experience

• Strong track record in the successful delivery of medium and large-scale projects
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution expertise
• Demonstrated experience in proactive and effective vendor management
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop and maintain collaborative and constructive working relationships at all levels and across diverse groups internally and externally
• Excellent communication, organisational and problem solving skills
• Excellent written communication skills, including the ability to prepare accurate and concise submissions, applications, proposals and reports
• Strong demonstrated team leadership
• Sound financial management skills and experience
• Sound demonstrated experience in stakeholder partnerships and strategic focus
• Well-developed negotiation skills and the ability to achieve critical success factors for high quality commercial outcomes
• Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to develop innovative solutions
• Sound judgement and decision making abilities
• Sound experience using Microsoft Project and agile tools such as Kanban boards to plan and manage projects
• Solid experience using Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio

Desirable:

• Project management experience in an educational setting
• Understanding of project accounting and proficiency in cost/benefit financial analysis
• Demonstrated ability to manage resources within a defined budget to achieve service standards and organisational goals
• Systems analysis and documentation skills
• A high-level understanding of test management methods
• Experience with PPM tools (project portfolio management tool)

What we can offer you:We offer employment benefits and a working environment that contribute to our people's health, safety and wellbeing, personal and professional development and supports an inclusive, equitable, and respectful college culture.

• Join a purpose driven organisation with a team of individuals passionate about improving educational opportunities for health professionals
• A new role - an opportunity for you to make it your own
• A competitive remuneration package including full FBT exempt salary packaging
• Opportunity to grow in the position with genuine career pathways
• Excellent staff benefits - additional leave over the Christmas period, additional personal leave, health and wellbeing offerings, market leading parental leave, staff recognition program, member advantage program with access to discounted lifestyle benefits and leisure activities
• Flexible, hybrid working options
• Free confidential counselling service to support our staff and their close family through life's challenges via our Employee Assistance Program

ANZCA is an equal opportunity employer and our commitment to creating and supporting an inclusive culture is reflected in our diverse mix of talented people passionate about delivering their best. We embrace and value the diverse society we live within and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or age. We strongly encourage Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Maori applicants to apply for any of our current opportunities.Next stepsApply now and take the next step towards a rewarding and long-term career within a progressive environment. Our application process will require you to submit your current resume. We will progress suitable candidates through the hiring process as soon as we can.If selected, we will contact you to discuss your application on the phone, you will be invited to meet with us at the college and from there, complete a few background checks. We will help you through this process.We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process and supportive workplace, so please let us know what you need. We aim to progress to interviews as soon as we identify suitable candidates. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply early.For more information about ANZCA or for a copy of the position description, please email Nuzee or Helen at recruitment@anzca.edu.auEmployer questionsYour application will cover the following questions:Do you have unrestricted working rights to work in Australia?What's your expected annual base salary?How much notice are you required to give your current employer?