Principal Project Officer- Start Immediately!

EBR Ever Better Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 185,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

EBR Ever Better Recruitment – Sydney NSW is seeking an experienced Principal Project Officer (Non IT) for a 6-month day-rate contract with potential extension. You will lead and support operational projects within the Health and Social Policy Branch, driving complex initiatives from planning through delivery.

Key responsibilities include shaping business cases, project plans, budgets, and resource allocation while managing stakeholder relationships and ensuring on-time, on-budget outcomes with

Qualifications

• Leading and managing the planning and delivery of critical and highly complex projects.
• Developing and managing stakeholder relationships with effective communication, negotiation and issues management to ensure delivery.
• Preparing business cases and project plans, developing and managing budgets, allocating resources and reporting.
• Monitoring and evaluating project implementation including risk, contingency, benefits realization and quality measures.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage project teams to meet milestones and outcomes.
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure alignment and timely decisions.
• Prepare and maintain project plans, budgets and resourcing.
• Monitor risks and issues and implement mitigations.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Budgeting

Risk management

Policy development

Education

Tertiary qualifications in relevant field

Job description

EBR Ever Better Recruitment – Sydney NSW

Full time

21h ago , from EBR Ever Better Recruitment

A rare opportunity has risen for an experienced and talented Principal Project Officer (Non IT) to join a leading Government Agency for an initial 6-month day rate contract with the view to be extended. The Project Officer will lead and support the operational projects to meet the objectives of the Health and Social Policy Branch.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and managing the planning and delivery of critical and highly complex projects.
• Managing and developing stakeholder relationships with stakeholders through effective communication, negotiation and issues management to ensure that projects are delivered successfully
• Spearheading all aspects of the project management including preparing business cases and project plans, developing and managing budgets, identification and allocation of resources as well as meeting reporting requirements to ensure project outcomes are achieved on time, on budget, to quality standards and within agreed scope
• Coming up with strategies for the continuous monitoring and evaluation of all aspects of project implementation including risk and contingency management, benefits realization, project impact and quality measures to achieve the success of the projects
• Leading and managing project teams to ensure that all key milestones and outcomes of the projects are delivered successfully

What you’ll need:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or previous experience within the NSW Government, preferably a Health background
• Proven experience working with various stakeholders to deliver projects that address complex policy or service delivery problems.
• Demonstrated extensive skills and experience in managing all stages of the project and policy cycle that include planning, development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.