Senior Project Manager (PROJ-4519)

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the continuous business improvement process for the project office.
• Maintain accurate project records to comply with ASD record keeping policies and audit activities.
• Ensure all work completed meets quality standards and quality control measures.
• Engage relevant stakeholders in requirements related matters.
• Manage the implementation of a Requirements Change process.
• Coordinate evolving project requirements.
• Manage the implementation of a Benefits Realisation process.
• Codification and Transfer of knowledge relating to activities work undertaken under this contract to Commonwealth Officers.

Technical skills:

Experience in major ICT project formal design reviews.

Essential criteria:

• Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives. Selects, adopts and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management methods, tools and techniques. Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards for requirements management. Obtains input and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders. Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts. Establishes requirements baselines or backlogs. Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.

• Leads activities required in the realisation of the benefits of each part of the change programme. Identifies specific metrics and mechanisms to measure benefits and plans to activate these mechanisms at the required time. Monitors benefits against what was predicted in the business case. Ensures all participants are engaged throughout the change programme and fully prepared to exploit the new operational business environment. Supports operational managers to ensure all plans, work packages and deliverables are aligned with the expected benefits.

• Takes responsibility for the provision of portfolio, programme and project support. Advises on the available standards, procedures, methods, tools and techniques. Evaluates project and/or programme performance and recommends changes where necessary. Contributes to reviews and audits of project and programme management to ensure conformance to standards.

• Investigates business situations where there is some complexity and ambiguity. Adopts holistic view to identify and analyse problems and opportunities. Contributes to the selection of the approach and techniques to be used for business situation analysis. Conducts root cause analysis and identifies recommendations for improvements. Engages and collaborates with operational stakeholders.