Technical Project Manager in Sydney

About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations: We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer. We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities. With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment. It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’– where our people reflect our purpose.

The Role: Reporting to the Director, Business Management Team, the Technical Project Manager is responsible for leading the delivery of complex technology projects and initiatives across the Enterprise Technology Division (ETD). The role provides end-to-end project leadership for New Policy Proposal (NPP) and capital funded initiatives and acts as the central point of coordination between business stakeholders and ETD delivery teams. The role requires a strong blend of project management expertise and technical understanding to effectively coordinate activities across multiple technical disciplines and identify delivery impacts arising from changes to project scope, priorities or schedules.

Duties and Responsibilities: Responsibilities of the EL1 may include:

• Lead and coordinate complex ICT projects from initiation through delivery, transition and closure, ensuring outcomes are delivered within agreed scope, budget, timeframes and quality expectations.
• Work collaboratively with initiating teams to establish an agreed delivery approach, clarify business and technical requirements, define responsibilities and confirm the information, decisions and resources required to commence delivery.
• Identify, map and actively manage dependencies across infrastructure, cloud, platforms, networks, cyber security, applications, architecture, service management and operational teams.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, risk and issue registers, dependency logs, decision records and other project controls.
• Provide accurate, timely and evidence-based advice on project progress, expenditure, risks, dependencies, decisions and emerging delivery impacts.
• Build productive relationships across business and technical teams.
• Assess proposed changes to scope, schedule or priorities and ensure changes are appropriately documented, agreed and approved.
• Proactively identify delivery barriers, information gaps and unresolved dependencies, escalating matters where necessary and presenting practical options and recommendations to senior decision-makers.

Qualifications and Education: Essential formal project-management qualifications such as PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Project Management or equivalent.

Eligibility: Don’t meet all the role requirements? At DEWR we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and seek to recruit staff with a wide range of backgrounds, skill levels, disciplines and working styles. If this role resonates with you and you are excited about making an impact, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Citizenship: To be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

Security Clearance: Our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain, and maintain a Baseline security clearance.