Job Description

The Team:

Digital Delivery drives impactful change by delivering strategic ICT projects that shape the future of the Department.

The Role:

As a foundation of successful project delivery, the Senior Project Manager leads the delivery of complex ICT projects, providing strategic direction and expert advice to drive key system reforms.

The Senior Project Manager aligns projects with policy and strategic priorities, delivering high-quality reports, briefings, and ministerial correspondence within tight deadlines. Building strong, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders is essential to achieving successful outcomes aligned with objectives.

You will need:

• Demonstrated specialist knowledge and extensive experience in project management, together with a proven understanding of, and ability to exercise, contemporary project management and business process practices and principles within a specific ICT context to achieve outcomes, including knowledge and experience in the running of large Government ICT related projects that have included the management of complex stakeholder groups.
• High level experience in, and proven ability to, manage human, financial and physical resources, together with providing leadership, direction and guidance to a team.
• High level strategic, conceptual, analytical and creative skills, demonstrating initiative and judgement in identifying issues, providing recommendations and solutions, initiating appropriate action and being flexible and responsive to changing and competing priorities.
• Highly developed interpersonal and oral communication skills, with the proven ability to negotiate, manage conflict, develop effective partnerships with staff, management, and key stakeholders.

Note: - Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.

Details of appointment:

Fixed term full time, day worker position, working 76 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as possible for a period of 6 months.

*Notwithstanding hours to be negotiated with the successful applicant.

Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time, part time, and casual vacancies.

Position Features:

• Some intra and interstate travel is required
• May be required to work outside of normal business hours

Salary: $139,470 to $148,863 per annum. Our Employer 12% superannuation contribution is on top of this amount.

• Salary range is in accordance with Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement 2022.

Benefits available to eligible candidates:

• Professional development and accelerated pathways.
• A range of leave entitlements, including study leave and Professional Development Support.
• Fitness Passport – You, and your family can access 40+ fitness facilities across Tasmania for just $14.50 per week per person, or $28.05 for a family.

More information about our Employee Benefits can be found here

Eligibility:

Applicants should note the following criteria are desirable:

• Satisfactory completion of an appropriate course of study from a recognised tertiary institution

Note: - Please refer to the Application Guide for more information of pre-employment check.

Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents

We encourage you to review the Statement of Duties, Applicant Guide, prior to applying for an overview of the duties, program, selection process and application guidance.

Statement of Duties:

• Senior Project Manager Band 8

Application Guide:

• Applicant Guide

How to apply:

Apply Online. Please click the "Apply" button on this screen to ensure that important questions about you are answered.

You will be prompted to complete a 1–2-page application detailing your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the attached Statement of Duties. A separate statement addressing the selection criteria in the Statement of Duties is not required.

For more information:

Applicants who require further information are encouraged to contact the Contact person for detailed information about the vacancy.

Name: Melanie Tyson
Position: Senior Manager - Project Management Office
Email address: melanie.tyson@health.tas.gov.au

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