Job Description

Principal Project Manager

• Location: Parramatta, hybrid working with 50% office attendance
• Employment Type - Ongoing full-time, 35 hours per week
• Grade - Clerk Grade 11/12
• Salary - $149,739 to 173,174 pa plus employers’ contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

Lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, complex ICT programs and projects, ensuring alignment to business outcomes, architecture, and governance requirements. The role is accountable for delivery across scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and stakeholder outcomes in a multi-vendor, multi-system environment.

What you’ll do

• Lead and manage the delivery of complex ICT projects and programs to ensure outcomes are achieved within scope, time, budget, and quality parameters
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, and resources to ensure effective delivery and alignment to PMO governance requirements
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and vendors to achieve project outcomes, including managing performance, delivery risks, and contractual obligations
• Provide regular and accurate reporting to governance forums, including project status, financials, risks, and key decisions
• Engage and manage stakeholders, including senior executives, to ensure alignment, effective communication, and resolution of issues
• Oversee key delivery activities including requirements traceability, testing, data migration, and implementation to support successful business outcomes
• Ensure compliance with NSW Government policies, standards, frameworks, and regulatory requirements, including procurement, audit, and cyber security obligations
• Support transition to operations and benefits realisation to ensure intended outcomes are achieved
• Govern and apply PMO program-level delivery frameworks, including risk, quality, and assurance

What we’re looking for

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Information and Communication Technology, Project Management or a related discipline, and demonstrated experience applying recognised project management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent)
• Extensive experience delivering large, complex Information and Communication Technology projects or programs, including system integration and digital transformation initiatives
• Strong knowledge of project management practices, including planning, governance , risk and issue management, reporting and delivery methodologies (e.g. Agile, PRINCE2 or hybrid approaches)
• Demonstrated experience managing stakeholders and vendors in complex environments, including influencing, negotiation and conflict resolution to achieve delivery outcomes
• Sound understanding of governance, procurement and compliance requirements within government or similarly regulated environments, including experience managing project budgets, resources, delivery performance, system integration, data migration and testing activities such as System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing

Desirable Requirements

• Experience delivering projects within New South Wales Government or similarly regulated environments
• Experience managing multi-vendor delivery models, including Systems Integrators and Software-as-a-Service providers
• Knowledge of project governance, assurance and reporting requirements within large and complex organisations
• Relevant industry certifications such as PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes, Project Management Professional, or Agile certifications
• Experience overseeing system integration, data migration and testing activities, including System Integration Testing and User Acceptance Testing

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career

• Flexible, autonomous work environment

• Competitive pay and conditions

• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date resume (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

• Targeted Question 1

Describe a large and complex Information and Communication Technology project or program you have led, including your role, how you managed delivery (scope, schedule, budget, risks, team and vendors), and the outcomes achieved?

• Targeted Question 2

Describe a situation where you managed challenging stakeholders or vendors, including how you influenced or negotiated to resolve issues and the outcome achieved?

Applications close Wednesday, 8 April 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Mai Nguyen mai.nguyen5@dcj.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Poppy Sgro on 02 9765 3929 or via email at poppy.sgro@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

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