Senior Diplomatic Leasing & Commercial Agreements Lead

National Capital Authority; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

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Flex Your Way

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Learn Without Limits

Impactful projects

Professional development

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Job summary

National Capital Authority seeks a Mission Enablement Project Manager to drive planning, stakeholder engagement, and governance for Defence missions in Canberra. The role coordinates co‑design, procurement planning, and contract management to accelerate capability outcomes, aligning with Defence priorities and security requirements.

You will support Mission Execution Strategy, data handling, lessons learned, and regular status reporting across branch meetings, ensuring artefacts meet Defence

Qualifications

• Deliver Mission Initiation activities to support HASCA decisions.
• Develop charters, problem statements and procurement artefacts.
• Lead procurement planning, probity and tender evaluation processes.
• Develop mission execution strategies and contract deliverables.
• Provide secretariat support and governance updates.

Responsibilities

• Develop co-design strategies and onboard Mission leadership roles.
• Capture lessons learned and maintain required registers.
• Attend branch meetings and provide status updates on Mission Enablement.
• Support transition to service and post‑award activities.
• Coordinate tender evaluations and contract negotiations with preferred tenderers.

Skills

Mission planning

Procurement & contracts

Stakeholder engagement

Governance reporting

Tender evaluation

Change management

Data handling & records

Risk management

Tools

ASCA BMS

CRM

JIRA

Confluence

EP3M

Job description

Mission Enablement Project Manager

Role Description:

Background: Missions are the central mechanism through which the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) delivers capability outcomes for Defence. They represent a structured, problem‑driven approach to innovation, where a clearly defined Defence priority or capability gap is translated into a focused programme of work. Each Mission is designed to bring together Defence stakeholders, industry partners, and academic institutions to collaboratively develop solutions that can be rapidly transitioned into operational use.

The purpose of a Mission is to accelerate the development and delivery of innovative and disruptive technologies into tangible Defence capabilities. Rather than conducting research in isolation, Missions are oriented toward achieving practical outcomes, ensuring that capability solutions are aligned with Defence strategy and can be effectively transitioned into acquisition pathways. This approach enables Defence to respond more quickly and effectively to emerging threats and strategic challenges.

Missions can vary significantly in scale and complexity, ranging from smaller initiatives involving a limited number of participants to large, multi‑partner programmes delivering integrated and high‑value capability outcomes. Regardless of scale, they are characterised by strong alignment to Defence priorities, a high level of collaboration across stakeholders, and a clear focus on delivering measurable capability outcomes. Through this model, Missions form the backbone of ASCA’s approach to accelerating innovation and strengthening Australia’s Defence capability system.

Role: This role will contribute to the planning and execution of co‑design activities by developing co‑design strategies, supporting stakeholder engagement, and facilitating onboarding of Mission leadership roles. The Service Provider will also be responsible for capturing lessons learned, maintaining relevant registers, and driving continuous improvement across Mission Integration and enablement processes.

Finally, the Service Provider will be required to participate in regular reporting and governance activities, including attendance at branch meetings, provision of status updates, and delivery of agreed artefacts in accordance with Defence standards, policies, and systems. All work is to be conducted using Defence ICT systems and aligned with Commonwealth requirements for security, record management, and data handling.

Essential Requirements:

• Demonstrable ability to deliver the following:
  • Conduct Mission Initiation activities to support decision by HASCA.
    • Support Co‑Design team with development of problem statements and project charters/mission planning documents, identify potential procurement approaches and support problem statement workshops.
    • Develop relevant artefacts for decisions by HASCA.
  • Lead the Approach to Market process for Missions
    • Lead/coordinate Missions involvement in the development of Procurement Plan, Probity Plan, Evaluation plan, and related procurement artefacts (such as RFP documentation).
    • Coordinate relevant financial documents and approvals as required.
    • Coordinate Market briefings, draft addenda to industry clarification requests.
    • Develop or contribute to Tender Evaluation Plans and on‑board the evaluation organisation.
  • Establish delivery framework for each Mission
    • Support development of the Mission Execution Strategy.
    • Provide advice on suitable contract deliverables and develop Data Item Descriptions as required.
    • Support contract management oversight where directed including assisting of contract change proposals.
    • Support the transition into service requirements for each Mission.
  • Conduct and coordinate tender evaluation and contract negotiation activities
    • Manage tender screening process and develop tender screening and compliance report.
    • Develop evaluation report templates and coordinate evaluation processes, including tender evaluation working groups.
    • Develop proposal or evaluation summaries to support decision making.
    • Provide secretariat support to Tender Evaluation Board.
    • Develop Source Evaluation Report for endorsement.
    • Lead and/or support contract negotiations with preferred tenderers.
    • Prepare notifications for non‑preferred tenderers.
    • Deliver written or verbal debriefs for tenderers.
    • Capture relevant information to support ASCA’s Benefits Management Framework.
  • Contribute to future planning and activities
    • Develop future strategy as directed by CDB Head in consultation with Defence stakeholders.
    • Support data and governance requirements, which may include Business Management tools that are being implemented.
    • Contribute to the use of ASCA BMS, CRM, JIRA, Confluence and the PM/Scheduling tool EP3M.
  • Capture Lessons Learned
    • Record Lessons learned in register and follow up with meeting for discussion and next steps.
    • Ensure any actions arising from Lessons learned register are implemented.
  • Participate in Branch meetings and provide status on activities
    • Attend relevant Branch meetings.
    • Provide status report on Mission Enablement.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Canberra (Hybrid/Remote not specified)

EEO Statement: We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and are committed to a diverse, inclusive workplace. Discrimination on the basis of race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, or any other characteristic protected by law is not tolerated.

Benefits:

• Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part‑time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.
• Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.
• Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on‑demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership and professional development opportunities.
• Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.
• Build Your Future – Whether you’re deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we’ll invest in your development every step of the way.
• And Much More – These are just a few of the ways we invest in our people and help them thrive.

Security Clearance: NV‑1 required.

Salary: Pay range: The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About the Team: You’ll join a team where people work with integrity, inclusion, innovation, agility, collaboration and commitment. In practice, that means sharing ownership, solving complex problems together and staying connected to the customer context, the purpose behind the work and how each role contributes to meaningful outcomes.

The Opportunity: Join a collaborative engineering environment where you will help build and operate enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using the Elastic Stack. Working alongside senior engineers and architects, you will contribute to solutions that improve system visibility, incident investigation and operational resilience across applications, infrastructure, databases and cloud environments.

• Develop and maintain monitoring configurations and integrations that collect logs, metrics, traces and events from enterprise systems.
• Build and enhance Kibana dashboards, visualisations, alerts and reports that support proactive monitoring, performance analysis and operational decision‑making.
• Create scripts and automation that streamline monitoring deployment, configuration management and recurring operational activities.
• Use observability data to support troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis, while contributing to technical documentation, engineering reviews and continuous improvements in monitoring coverage and alert quality.