Senior Project Manager - Contracts and Procurement focussed

• Australian Citizenship with Baseline Clearance maditory
• Canberra onsite location
• 12 months with 2 *12 months extensions

Our Client a large Federal Government agency is looking for a highly skilled senior project manager to come and work within their IT team to help deliver a vital project with a strong focus on procurment and conntract management.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Managing a program of work including projects that are high risk or complex in nature;
• Managing multiple projects concurrently;
• Managing a multi-disciplinary team with complex and different interfaces;
• Providing strategic planning, mapping and modelling development;
• Developing project documentation to a high standard as specified by the Department's methodology within identified timeframes;
• Preparing and maintaining the project schedule;
• Building and developing stakeholder relationships;
• Managing project risks and issues and escalating as appropriate;
• Preparing progress reports;
• Managing resources for projects and/or programs;

Key Selection Criteria

• Takes full responsibility for the definition, documentation and successful completion of complex projects. Adopts and adapts project management methods and tools. Ensures that effective project monitoring and control processes, change control, risk management and quality processes are employed and maintained. Monitors and controls resources, revenue and capital expenditures against the project budget. Manages the expectations of key project stakeholders.

• 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 from, and agreement to requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders. Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts. Establishes requirements baselines. Ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.

• 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.

• Ensures that projects, teams and functions have appropriate practices in place and are meeting required organisational quality levels. Advises on the application of appropriate quality management techniques and standards. Determines areas where existing processes should change from analysing audit findings. Facilitates improvements to processes by changing approaches and working practices, typically using recognised models. Takes responsibility for controlling updating and distributing organisational standards.

If you wish to apply for this position, please submit your resume by clicking the 'Apply Now' button. For further information please contact Abhi Naik at Clicks IT Recruitment on +61 427 997 851.

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