Project Manager – ArcGIS and Estate Management Project

Contract opportunity | Sydney/Remote | Subject to project award

GISjobs Australia is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of a significant ArcGIS and estate-management project for a major Australian university.

This is a hands-on delivery leadership role. The Project Manager will be accountable for planning, coordinating and managing the project from mobilisation through implementation, handover and hypercare. The role requires someone who can work confidently across business, GIS, architecture, cyber security, privacy, legal and governance stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end project delivery within the agreed scope, schedule and budget.
- Develop and maintain the project plan, delivery schedule, resource plan and Jira backlog.
- Establish and coordinate the Project Working Group and associated governance meetings.
- Facilitate meetings, prepare materials and maintain action, decision, risk and issue registers.
- Coordinate architecture, cyber security, privacy, legal and other assurance activities.
- Manage project dependencies, stakeholder availability, approvals and delivery risks.
- Coordinate the preparation of a comprehensive end-to-end RFT documentation package.
- Consolidate business, technical and commercial inputs into consistent project deliverables.
- Coordinate requirements, design, development, testing, deployment and acceptance activities.
- Support UNSW’s testing approach and ensure defects are managed through to resolution.
- Provide transparent progress, financial, risk and governance reporting.




- Coordinate operational handover, knowledge transfer and hypercare support.
- Maintain effective delivery coverage during the December–January period.

About you

You will ideally have

- Demonstrated experience managing technology, GIS, asset management or enterprise information projects.
- Strong end-to-end project delivery experience, including mobilisation, planning, governance, implementation and handover.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary delivery teams and senior stakeholders.
- Practical Agile delivery experience using Jira or a comparable project-management platform.
- Experience working within formal architecture, cyber security, privacy, legal and procurement processes.
- Strong documentation, facilitation, reporting and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience managing fixed-price deliverables, dependencies and scope change.
- The ability to translate between business, technical and executive audiences.
- Experience in higher education, government, utilities, property, facilities or asset management would be advantageous.
- Familiarity with ArcGIS or geospatial project delivery would be highly regarded.

Engagement requirements

Applicants should provide

- Current availability and earliest commencement date.
- Expected weekly capacity.
- Location and preferred working arrangements.
- Planned leave and availability across December and January.
- Proposed employment or contracting arrangement.
- Daily or hourly rate expectations.
- A current resume and brief summary of comparable projects.

This opportunity is subject to contract award and client approval of the nominated resource.

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