Job Description
Urgent requirement of Project Manager - Contract - Canberra
Requirements
Essential criteria:
1. Financial management: Level 4 (SFIA)
* Monitors and maintains financial records to agreed requirements for compliance and audit.
* Assists with identifying and calculating process, service, project and component costs for financial planning and budgeting.
* Collates required financial data and reports for analysis and to facilitate decision-making.
2. Organisational change management: Level 5 (SFIA)
* Develops the change management approach and a change management plan in collaboration with sponsors, users and project teams.
* Creates and implements action plans to ensure everything is ready for the change before going live.
* Acquires change management resources and develops their capabilities to deliver the required changes.
* Gathers feedback to allow timely improvements to the change management plan and approach.
* Assesses risks and takes preventative action.
* Develops and communicates tailored change management plans for senior stakeholder groups.
* Provides guidance and makes suggestions to support change sponsors.
3. Project management: Level 5 (SFIA)
* 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. Requirements definition and management: Level 4 (SFIA)
* Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
* Contributes to selecting the requirements approach.
* Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge and enables effective prioritisation of requirements.
* Establishes requirements base-lines, obtains formal agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.
5. Stakeholder relationship management: Level 5 (SFIA)
* Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups.
* Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables.
* Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders.
* Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans.
* Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding. Facilitates business decision-making processes.
* Captures and disseminates technical and business information.
Department: Department of Defence
Estimated start date: Monday, 06 January 2025
Initial contract duration: 12 months
Extension term: 12 months
Number of extensions: 02
Location of work: ACT
Working arrangements: Onsite
Maximum hours: 40 hours per week
Security clearance: Must be able to obtain Negative Vetting Level 2
Email: jobs@hasthasolutions.com