At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a major transformation project in the transport sector, overseeing delivery and stakeholder alignment.
- Company: Government-sector client focused on modernising vehicle registration and licensing services.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, contractor perks, and emotional support programs.
- Other info: Brisbane CBD location with potential for long-term contract extensions.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by driving technology and business transformation in a vital public service.
- Qualifications: Experience in executive leadership and complex digital transformations, especially with legacy systems.
Our government-sector client is seeking to engage an experienced Project Director to lead a major modernisation initiative aimed at improving vehicle registration and licensing services and replacing legacy technology within the transport sector.
In this role, you will:
- Provide strategic leadership for a large-scale transformation program, aligning stakeholders, teams, priorities, and delivery outcomes to a clear roadmap.
- Drive end-to-end program delivery, overseeing planning, governance, budgets, procurement, risks, vendor management, and executive reporting.
- Lead technology and business transformation, including platform transition, data migration, integration, compliance, change management, operational readiness, and capability uplift.
Required skills:
- Executive leadership delivering complex business and digital transformation, including legacy system modernisation.
- Coordination of multidisciplinary teams and delivery partners across business and technical workstreams.
- Integrated planning, commercial and financial control, governance and assurance, and executive-level reporting.
- Senior stakeholder engagement, decision support, and resolution of complex risks, issues, and cross-dependencies.
- Service transition leadership, organisational change, capability uplift, and benefits realisation.
- Oversight of architecture, data, security, privacy, and operational readiness within a controlled delivery environment.
- Experience applying PRINCE2.
- Experience delivering within Queensland Government enterprise architecture, assurance, and digital investment governance requirements.
- Experience managing legacy coexistence, data migration, operational readiness, and knowledge transfer.
Closing date: 2nd November.
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Project Director in Brisbane employer: Peoplebank Australia QLD
Peoplebank is an exceptional employer, offering a supportive and inclusive work culture that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth. As a Senior Change Manager based in Brisbane, you'll benefit from competitive daily rates, flexible contracting options, and access to unique perks like car leasing and salary packaging. With a strong focus on coaching and mentoring, you'll have the opportunity to uplift internal change capabilities while working on impactful ICT-enabled transformation programs.
