Portfolio Delivery Manager

World Animal Protection; St Leonards; À distance; AUD 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

World Animal Protection seeks a Portfolio Delivery Manager to lead and harmonise delivery across a varied portfolio. You will strengthen governance, improve visibility of progress, identify risks and dependencies early, and build delivery capability across the organisation.

You will collaborate across internal teams and external partners, ensuring alignment with strategic outcomes and robust planning, mobilisation and delivery practices.

Qualifications

• Experience leading project, programme or PMO work across a complex portfolio.
• Ability to adapt delivery approaches across contexts while maintaining governance.
• Experience coordinating work across multiple stakeholders including external partners.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills to resolve delivery issues.

Responsabilités

• Lead delivery management across a portfolio of initiatives, ensuring mobilisation, governance and support.
• Adapt delivery processes and PMO approaches across varied environments.
• Coordinate work with external partners, ensuring governance and escalation routes.
• Collaborate across teams to address risks, dependencies and readiness gaps.
• Strengthen planning, mobilisation, governance and oversight practices.
• Review delivery performance and implement improvements for consistency and control.
• Provide guidance on feasibility, risks and actions to keep work on track.

Connaissances

Delivery management

PMO

Governance

Stakeholder coordination

Planning

Leadership

Description du poste

Portfolio Delivery Manager

Application Deadline: 16 October 2026

Department: Strategy and Impact

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: International - Australia

Reporting To: Head of Portfolio & Business Strategy

Description

At World Animal Protection, we're working to improve the lives of animals around the world. We're looking for a Portfolio Delivery Manager to help ensure that our most strategically important work is delivered effectively, consistently and with confidence.

In this role, you will lead and develop our delivery management approach across a varied portfolio of initiatives, supporting work delivered by internal teams and external partners. You will help create the conditions for successful delivery by strengthening governance, improving visibility of progress, identifying risks and dependencies early, and bringing people together to resolve challenges. You'll also play an important role in building delivery management capability across the organisation, helping teams strengthen planning, mobilisation and delivery practices

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery management across strategically significant projects and programmes, ensuring work is mobilised, governed and supported effectively.
• Adapt and apply delivery management processes, tools and PMO approaches across a range of delivery environments and initiatives.
• Coordinate work delivered through external partners, ensuring clear governance, accountability, visibility and escalation routes.
• Work collaboratively across teams to identify and address risks, dependencies, readiness gaps and delivery challenges.
• Build organisational delivery capability by strengthening planning, mobilisation, governance and oversight practices.
• Review delivery performance across the portfolio and implement improvements that increase consistency, control and delivery effectiveness.
• Provide advice and guidance on delivery feasibility, risks, partnership impacts and actions needed to keep work on track

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Experience leading project, programme, PMO or delivery management work across a complex portfolio of initiatives.

Ability to adapt delivery approaches, tools and processes to different delivery contexts while maintaining effective governance and usability.

Experience coordinating work across multiple stakeholders, including external partners, with accountability for delivery oversight and progress.

Strong collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to bring people together to resolve delivery issues, dependencies and operational challenges.

Experience improving delivery management capability, planning discipline and the practical application of PMO standards.

Sound judgement in assessing delivery feasibility, identifying risks and recommending actions that improve delivery confidence and outcomes.

People management experience, including supporting development, setting priorities and maintaining quality standards