Senior Project Support Officer

Company Description
Every person at Leidos plays an important and valued role bringing science, engineering and technology together to produce practical solutions for our customers' most complex problems. It's how we help to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient - work that matters and a mission, like those of our customers, we are passionate about. We're open minded, ambitious and committed to enabling our people to do their best work, to be inspired by what they can achieve and the impact they can have.
Here in Australia, we're agile and growing fast. Our 1,800 plus employees are busy building an enviable reputation for innovation and delivery. And, as part of a US-based organisation with 37,000 people and a 50 year history, we are able to draw upon world-leading technical expertise to help us provide the best solutions to our customers.
Job Description
Your New Role
We have an opportunity for an experienced Project Support Officer, ideally with a demonstrated ability supporting delivery of complex Geospatial projects, to join our team and assist enabling a key intelligence customer.
This is a great role for a self-starter, who is organised, proactive and flexible to join a friendly team. You'll gain exposure to a team of subject matter experts, and provide leadership and support with a variety of tasks. No two days are the same, this is a busy role but with a lot of opportunity to lead and develop. Some of your key tasks will include:

• Providing administrative and coordination support to project leadership.
• Manage aspects of project work packages, and support development of work proposals.
• Support finance and resource management.
• Support document management and reporting.
• Coordinate various process improvement activities.
• Establish and grow relationships with existing and potential stakeholders.

This role would be highly suited to those with an interest in a career pathway towards Project or Business Management.
Qualifications
About You and What You'll Bring
You are an expert communicator with the ability to think strategically and act tactically. You are capable of building and maintaining business relationships and partnerships through collaboration and consultation.
You will lead and influence others through the provision of advice, recommendations and proposals, and you will meet challenges with tack and diplomacy. This will be supported by your sound judgement, high-level problem solving and issue management skills. In addition, you will have a passion for driving performance improvements and will use your expertise and leadership skills to influence staff within the team and stakeholders to achieve project outcomes.
You have strong organisation skills, ability to establish rapport with stakeholders and ability to work to timelines. You are a self-starter with experience supporting geospatial capability projects and/or sustainment missions.
Skills

• Ideally three or more years supporting Geospatial projects;
• Defence sector or Federal Government experience;
• Experience contributing to project artefacts and documentation;
• Strong ability with financial and budgetary processes
• Superior leadership skills;
• Exposure to Waterfall or Agile project delivery methods;
• Experience with MS Project and ideally Jira.

Additional Information
What You'll Love
At Leidos, you will be valued, included and supported. So if you are open-minded and keen to be the difference, we look forward to welcoming you.
Our business is growing and evolving, so it's an exciting place to be. We're focused on outcomes so we support flexible work practices. There are also a range of benefits including 12 weeks' paid parental leave as a primary carer, discounted health insurance, novated leasing and more.
This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen, hold a PV level Australian security clearance, and the successful completion an Organisational Suitability Assessment.