Programme Management Officer - Brisbane 2032

Randstad; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee is seeking a Programme Management Officer to support the Sport and Athlete Functional Area. The role focuses on planning, coordination, monitoring and reporting of activities, ensuring milestones and risks are captured and tracked to inform decision making.

The role involves maintaining schedules, governance inputs and reporting frameworks, and working with sport programme leads to develop clear work plans and mitigation strategies

Qualifications

• Ability to coordinate programme activities across multiple workstreams.
• Experience applying structured planning and scheduling approaches.
• Strong governance, reporting and issue-tracking capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate development and monitoring of the Sport Programme schedule.
• Support leads to establish work plans, timelines and reporting.
• Maintain a consolidated view of activities and progress and track overdue actions.
• Develop mitigation plans for at-risk milestones and delivery risks.
• Maintain dashboards and reporting materials for governance.
• Identify dependencies across workstreams to support delivery.
• Coordinate governance meetings and briefing materials, tracking actions through to completion.
• Contribute to process improvements in planning and reporting.

Skills

Programme coordination

Scheduling

Governance

Reporting

Communication

Organisational skills

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

A new and exciting opportunity has emerged with the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee (Brisbane 2032) for a Programme Management Officer in the Sport and Athlete Functional Area.

If you're a talented professional looking for a career defining and high impact role, this is your chance.

Brisbane 2032 is not just planning a sporting event - we’re shaping a lasting legacy for future generations. Our Vision for Brisbane 2032 is

• Believe: We believe in the power of sport and the Australian spirit. Together, they unlock our limitless potential, grit, and heart to go further than we ever imagined.

• Belong: Everyone is welcome at our Games. Every person is celebrated, creating a playing field that’s fair, fun, and full of connection!

• Become: This is our moment. Our move. Together, we’ll harness the magic of the Games to become stronger and step boldly into an exciting new era.

As an ambitious and inclusive organisation - Brisbane 2032 offers a rare opportunity to contribute to the world's largest sporting event, the world's largest multicultural event, and the world's largest event for people with disability. It is a chance to showcase to the world what Australia has to offer. It is also a chance to celebrate the world’s oldest continuing living culture, Australia’s First Nations peoples, and to promote and further the cause of accessibility and opportunity for all.

About the Role

Reporting to the Director of Sport within the Sport and Athlete Functional Area, the Sports Programme Management Officer supports the effective planning, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of activities across the division. To achieve this, the role provides essential administrative and programme management support, ensuring that all milestones, deliverables, actions, risks, and dependencies are accurately captured, tracked, and reported.

The Programme Management Officer maintains schedules, coordinates reporting inputs, monitors progress against key deadlines and supports governance activities to ensure information is current, reliable and available to support decision-making. The role assists in identifying emerging issues, tracking follow-up actions and promoting consistent programme management practices across the Sport Programme and broader Sport and Athlete Division.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate the development, maintenance and monitoring of the Sport Programme integrated schedule, ensuring key milestones, activities and deliverables are planned, tracked and reported.
• Support sport programme leads to establish clear work plans, timelines, dependencies, and reporting requirements, while monitoring progress against agreed milestones to proactively identify emerging schedule risks, delays, and conflicts.
• Maintain a consolidated view of Sport Programme activities, milestones, and deliverables to accurately track and report progress, while identifying and facilitating appropriate follow-up on overdue actions, emerging issues, and delivery risks.
• Work with sports team to develop mitigation plans where milestones or deliverables are at risk.
• Maintain reporting frameworks, dashboards, and status updates to consolidate information from multiple workstreams, providing comprehensive visibility of Sport Programme progress for executive, governance, and programme reporting.
• Identify and monitor dependencies across sport workstreams, projects, and functional areas to support the coordination of shared deliverables, while maintaining comprehensive registers for actions, milestones, decisions, assumptions, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate governance meetings, planning workshops, and programme reviews, including the preparation of associated briefing materials and presentations, while tracking resulting actions and decisions through to completion.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of planning, reporting and programme management processes.

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate programme activities across multiple workstreams while maintaining visibility of priorities, deadlines and outcomes,
• Experience applying structured planning and scheduling approaches to manage activities, milestones and dependencies.
• Maintains accurate programme information and identifies impacts arising from changes in priorities or timelines.
• Develops meaningful reporting and performance measures that support oversight and decision making.
• Able to translate complex information into clear, concise and actionable insights.
• Experience with governance practices to support accountability, transparency and effective decision making.
• Experience in information management and strong skills in Microsoft Suite
• Identifies potential delivery risks and issues early and supports effective mitigation and resolution strategies.
• Strong communication skills and capable of communicating with people at all levels
• Demonstrates strong organisational skills, attention to detail, accountability, and initiative to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Qualifications

• No specific qualifications are required for this role.

We are committed to ensuring our application and recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations to help you perform at your best, please let us know.

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and culturally and linguistically diverse people to apply.