ICT Project Manager (5544)

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Harrison McMillan is seeking an ICT Project Manager (EL1) to work with a Federal Government Department in Canberra.

This opportunity is to deliver inflight FY25/26 projects and exists within the department’s corporate applications (including Enterprise Resource Planning), infrastructure platforms (including cloud hosting, migration, cyber security, data & analytics), and software development.

• Management and delivery of ICT related projects and/or large corporate ICT transformation programs

• Ability to adapt to and work across various delivery methodologies (such as waterfall, Agile, Hybrid)

• Managing technical teams and partnering with multiple vendors to deliver outcomes under tight timeframes

• Preparing and presenting reports, artefacts, and documentation for Project Boards, Senior Executives, and other governance bodies

• High level interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships and liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders

• Personal resilience and flexibility to deal with ambiguity and conflicting priorities to successfully deliver under pressure within a challenging environment

• Manage the delivery of departmental projects (Prince2, Agile, SAFe, hybrid)

• Provide guidance and leadership to a multi-disciplinary project team, 3rd party vendors, and/or other departmental teams to deliver projects

• Undertake project governance, including, but not limited to:

  • project initiation and closure

  • scope, schedule and delivery timeframe management

  • reporting and presenting to Senior Executives, Program/Project Boards, and other governance bodies

  • budget and financial management and reporting

  • active management of risks and issues

• Provide delivery capability across the broader programs of work

• Project Management experience in delivery of a large and/or complex ICT Projects including waterfall, Agile, SAFe, Prince, MSP

• Capability in managing all aspects of a project to ensure successful outcomes

• Demonstrated ability to build and lead multi-disciplinary teams to effectively deliver results and positively respond to change

• Demonstrated experience with engaging and managing 3rd party vendors and contracts to ensure successful delivery of requirements

• Well-developed communication skills

• Capability and experience in delivering large corporate software projects, such as ERP implementations

• SAFe Agile and/or Scrum Master experience and qualifications are highly desirable

• Project management qualifications and certification are highly desirable