Manager Delivery Manager/ICT Project Manager

One of our federal Government clients is seeking to engage Manager Delivery Manager/ICT Project Manager for Canberra location (Hybrid arrangement) .

Please note Candidate must have NV2 security clearance

Initial contract duration-12 Months

Extension term-Up to a maximum of 24 Months

Location of work-Canberra

Working arrangements-Hybrid

Job details

As a Delivery Manager in the Data and Systems section, you will unblock issues, support the delivery team, and monitor and improve performance of the team. In this role, you will work with a section leadership to define the roadmap for products and services, remove blockers, drive requirements capture and user story development, monitor status and support the delivery teams so that they can maintain delivery throughput.

Flexible working arrangements provided for the successful candidate, with all hybrid arrangements to be considered.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Manage projects from start to finish. You will define, facilitate, and ensure the satisfactory completion of these projects. You will also assess and manage any risks.
• Lead efforts to achieving their objectives, monitor and reporting on status, schedule, risks and issues.
• Assist with the release of data and software. This will involve release scheduling and procedures.
• Develop realistic and useful measures and targets for projects.
• Provide professional advice on the implementation of new procedures and tools.
• Plan and drive systems development projects that involve software, cloud infrastructure, and big data.
• Capture and manage requirements, translate into user stories.
• Support capability governance including prioritisation.
• Support implementation and management of service management principles.

Essential criteria

1. • Provides advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Tailors processes in line with agreed standards and evaluation of methods and tools. Reviews and improves usage and application of methods and tools.

2. • Forms, maintains and leads workgroups and individuals to achieve organisational objectives. Determines and delegates objectives and task responsibilities to individuals or teams including people management responsibilities as appropriate. Sets the quality, performance and capability targets in line with organisational goals. Monitors performance and working relationships and provides effective feedback to address individual issues. Encourages individual development of skills and capabilities in line with team and personal goals. Facilitates the development of individuals by adjusting workload, targets, and team capacity. Plays an active role in formal organisational processes such recruitment, reward, promotion and disciplinary procedures.

3. • Takes full responsibility for the definition, approach, facilitation and satisfactory completion of medium-scale projects. Provides effective leadership to the project team. Adopts appropriate project management methods and tools. Manages the change control process and assesses and manages risks. Ensures that realistic project plans are maintained and delivers regular and accurate communication to stakeholders. Ensures project and product quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure. Ensures that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are formally accepted, by appropriate stakeholders. Monitors costs, times, quality and resources used and takes action where performance deviates from agreed tolerances.

4. • Facilitates and supports the execution of resourcing activities in collaboration with managers and teams. Analyses resource requests to determine tasks, skills and effort required. Creates and communicates open positions internally and externally. Conducts interviews and assessments using a planned format and structure. Implements internal resource allocation matching skills to tasks. Contributes to transitioning of resources, complying with relevant statutory or external regulations and codes of practice.

5. • Identifies and prioritises appropriate measures, scales, and targets. Supports projects, functions or teams in the development of measurement methods. Specifies base and derived measures which support agreed information needs. Specifies how to collect and store the data for each required measure. Provides guidance on collection of data. Designs reports and reporting formats.

6. • Leads the development of comprehensive stakeholder management strategies and plans. Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external). Facilitates the engagement of stakeholders in support of the delivery of services and change projects. Acts as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them. Negotiates to ensure that stakeholders understand and agree on what will meet their needs, and that appropriate agreements are defined. Oversees monitoring of relationships including lessons learned and appropriate feedback. Leads actions to improve relations and open communications with and between stakeholders.

Desirable criteria

1. • Plans and drives systems development projects which support the organisation's objectives and plans. Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate systems development methods, tools and techniques. Ensures that stakeholders are aware of required resources and that they are made available. Facilitates availability and optimum utilisation of resources. Monitors and reports on the progress of development projects. Ensures projects are carried out in accordance with agreed architectures, standards, methods and tools and addresses security and privacy requirements. Develops road maps to communicate future development activity.

If you would like to apply for the above role, then please send your updated CV with Cover Letter to [email protected]