Reporting to the Director, Business Management Team, the Technical Project Manager is responsible for leading the delivery of complex technology projects and initiatives across the Enterprise Technology Division (ETD).

The role provides end-to-end project leadership for Current Policy Proposal (NPP) and capital funded initiatives and acts as the central point of coordination between business stakeholders and ETD delivery teams.

The role requires a strong blend of project management expertise and technical understanding to effectively coordinate activities across multiple technical disciplines and identify delivery impacts arising from changes to project scope, priorities or schedules.

Responsibilities of the EL1 may include:

- Lead and coordinate complex ICT projects from initiation through delivery, transition and closure, ensuring outcomes are delivered within agreed scope, budget, timeframes and quality expectations.
- Work collaboratively with initiating teams to establish an agreed delivery approach, clarify business and technical requirements, define responsibilities and confirm the information, decisions and resources required to commence delivery.
- Identify, map and actively manage dependencies across infrastructure, cloud, platforms, networks, cyber security, applications, architecture, service management and operational teams.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, forecasts, risk and issue registers,



dependency logs, decision records and other project controls.
- Provide accurate, timely and evidence-based advice on project progress, expenditure, risks, dependencies, decisions and emerging delivery impacts.
- Build productive relationships across business and technical teams.
- Assess proposed changes to scope, schedule or priorities and ensure changes are appropriately documented, agreed and approved.
- Proactively identify delivery barriers, information gaps and unresolved dependencies, escalating matters where necessary and presenting practical options and recommendations to senior decision-makers.

Please note, under section 22(8) of the Public Service Act 1999, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the APS unless the Agency delegate has agreed, in writing.

This is a designated security assessed position. The successful candidate will have the ability to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance.

This selection process may be used to establish a merit pool. The pool might be accessed to fill ongoing and non-ongoing vacancies for similar roles in the Department over the next 18 months.

Qualifications and Education

Essential

- Formal project-management qualifications such as PRINCE2, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile Project Management or equivalent.

📌 Technical Project Manager (Australia)
🏢 DEWR
📍 Australia