AddressSouthern Cross Care QLD has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Senior Project Manager to join our team.
Join a supportive and friendly team working together to make a real difference not only for the people we care for, but also each other
Southern Cross Care QLD has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Senior Project Manager who loves complex projects. 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
- Employee Assistance Program for employees and their families
- Purpose driven organisation making a real difference
- Convenient location with free parking onsite
Are you a disciplined, articulate, and enthusiastic Project Manager who loves complex projects? Do you get excited by the prospect of working for a growing not-for-profit, values-driven aged care organisation?
As a Senior Project Manager in a newly formed Business Support Team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering a major new business initiative focused on transitioning systems and processes into our operational environment. This is a hands-on, high-impact, people-facing role in a fast-paced environment that requires regular travel to regional sites.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage multiple business and system initiatives commissioned as part of the Transition plan.
- Plan, design, and manage the delivery of assigned projects, ensuring milestones are achieved and outcomes delivered as planned.
- Undertake development and maintenance of project related documentation and reports including project briefs, project management plans, project status reports and risk/issues registers.
- Liaise, consult, and communicate at senior management levels. Providing status updates when as required.
- Work closely with stakeholders at all levels in the organisation to transition to new business systems solutions, including changes to established processes and procedures.
- Develop and implement change management strategies to facilitate seamless integration into the SCCQ environment.
- Support and guide staff through the transition process, maintaining a focus on our values.
- Minimum of seven years' experience in a similar Senior Project Manager role. Exposure to the aged care, human services, or not-for-profit industry is desirable.
- Proven track record of delivering successful projects and influencing a diverse range of stakeholders to ensure projects remain on plan.
- As a proactive Project Manager who enjoys getting things done you will possess a strong partnership and relationship focus and flair with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated diverse range of project experience across complex business systems and infrastructure implementation.
- You will enjoy following a structured project management methodology (e.g. PMBOK, Prince2, Agile) but will apply common sense to how you manage projects and engage stakeholders.
- Commitment to managing change in an understood and accepted way, working closely with non-technical stakeholders.
- Above all else, you will have a humble, kind, friendly, and trustworthy personality, with excellent listening skills. The environment is extremely fast-moving, and you will need to be adaptable in your approach to delivering assigned projects. Sometimes, you will need to deliver difficult messages and manage conflict resolution, so strong stakeholder management skills are required.
- Willingness to travel within regional sites in Australia, with overnight stays.
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 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
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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
