Full time
Salary Package: $137,231 - $164,720 (plus Super)
As an ASD EL2 Project Director, you will be responsible for leading an integrated team and manage all planning, governance, risk and reporting aspects of the Capability Life Cycle. This will entail:
Implementing programme management practices to support iterative/agile working.
Conceiving, maintaining and communicating a vision of the programme's outcomes and associated benefits.
Agreeing business requirements, and translation of requirements into operational plans.
Determining, monitoring and reviewing programme scope, costs, schedule and expected benefits.
Scheduling programme resources, inter-dependencies and programme risk.
Managing interdependencies in support of specific business strategies and objectives.
Maintaining a strategic view over the set of projects.
Providing the framework for implementing business initiatives, or large-scale change.
Accountable for leading a team, managing allocated resources, setting work area priorities, managing workflows, developing strategies and evaluating business outcomes.
Provide clear direction as to ensure that there is a business perspective on how the new technical capabilities will be delivered to the business including planning around key business cycles, selecting appropriate customers for migration.
Accountable for the development of business implementation and change management plans that include all the activities the business needs to do in preparation for new technical components and technologies.
Understand and use experience to navigate organisational context to deliver agreed project outputs.
Maintain knowledge of ICT project management tools to prepare project plans including but not limited to, risk management, quality, financial, procurement, acquisition strategy, resourcing, project briefs, project management plans and post implementation reviews.
Negotiate with stakeholders and team members using communication styles to suit different audiences and purposes.
Build and sustain relationships with a network of key people internally and externally.
Evaluate project and program performance to understand and anticipate critical factors for success and recommend changes where necessary.
Prioritise competing deadlines and manage uncertainty to deliver on agreed ICT project outputs within timeframes and budget.
About our Team
ASD's Technology Development & Integration Branch role is to provide through-life capability management of specified capabilities within ASD's Enterprise Technology Division to enable intelligence outcomes Defence (including ADF), the National Intelligence Community (NIC), Government and international partners.
We drive Project Management maturity improvements and the Branch is comprised of members of diverse skills and disciplines who work together to deliver positive capability development outcomes for all of our stakeholders. Through these stakeholders including Air Force, Army, and Navy and other Defence Groups, we deliver complex project/programs some of which enable the ADF Warfighter stay ahead of technical advancements in the region.
Within the Programme/ Project Management function, an ASD EL2 Project Director will work in the Branch with considerable independence and is accountable to perform and achieve complex programme/project management work within an integrated workforce.
You will be required to work closely with other project equity owners and other areas across the organisation.
Our Ideal Candidate
An ASD EL2 Project Director, you will:
Exercise a significant degree of independence and perform an important leadership role.
Be responsible for influencing and developing strategies, policies, priorities and operational practices in support of ASD objectives based on high-level decision making and judgement.
Provide strategic advice to senior management and stakeholders as well as leading and assuming accountability for projects or programs that have strategic or operational significance.
Be modern leaders with a focus on delivering outcomes in a Programme/Project setting.
Demonstrate interpersonal skills to foster and promote a positive and inclusive workplace culture that aligns with ASD values.
Demonstrate highly developed written and oral communication skills and demonstrated ability to communicate information coherently and concisely to audiences.
ASD is seeking applicants to fill current and anticipated vacancies and to create a merit pool for future vacancies.
Application Closing Date: Sunday 29 September 2024
For further information please review the job information pack, reference ASD/07845/24 on https://www.asd.gov.au/careers
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