Position: Benefits Management & Risk Specialist

Security clearance: Active AGSVA Baseline clearance (mandatory)

Role Overview The Benefits Management and Risk Specialist will support the effective management of benefits, risks, issues and dependencies across the Funding and Disclosure (FAD) Reform Program. The role will establish and maintain fit-for-purpose frameworks, plans, registers, profiles and reporting arrangements that support informed decision-making, effective governance and the achievement of program outcomes.

Working closely with FAD leadership, delivery branches, governance forums and key stakeholders, the specialist will provide strategic advice, assurance and practical support to strengthen program management capability. The role will facilitate workshops and reviews, monitor actions and treatments, identify emerging concerns and interdependencies, and support timely escalation and resolution. It will also help align benefits, risks, issues and dependencies with program objectives, delivery priorities and scaled agile ways of working.

Key duties and responsibilities The Benefits Management and Risk Specialist will be responsible for, but not limited to:

- Developing, reviewing and maintaining the FAD Reform Program's perks, risk, issues and dependencies frameworks, plans, registers, profiles and supporting artefacts.
- Leading program-level benefits management, including benefits identification, profiling, ownership, measurement, reporting and realisation tracking.
- Reviewing program risks and supporting the identification, assessment, treatment, monitoring and escalation of risks in accordance with established governance requirements.
- Establishing and maintaining effective processes for identifying, recording, managing, escalating and closing program issues.
- Monitoring, analysing and reporting on risks, issues and dependencies that may impact Program delivery or benefits realisation, escalating emerging concerns and supporting the development of mitigation and management strategies.
- Identifying and monitoring internal and external dependencies, including cross-branch, delivery, policy, regulatory, technology and organisational dependencies that may affect program outcomes.
- Facilitating benefits, risk, issues and dependencies workshops with accountable owners, delivery teams and key stakeholders.
- Uplifting benefits reporting capability to meet internal and external requirements, including reporting on benefit realisation, associated risks,



issues and dependencies that may impact the achievement of Program outcomes.
- Supporting the integration of benefits, risks, issues and dependencies into program planning, business cases, delivery roadmaps, assurance activities and change control processes.
- Supporting the Program to develop an approach to benefits management that aligns with scaled agile methodologies and supports the identification and management of risks, issues and dependencies that may affect benefits realisation.
- Providing assurance over the quality, completeness, consistency and currency of program registers, profiles, reports and related governance artefacts.
- Building strong and effective relationships with stakeholders across the Program and Agency, supporting effective management of benefits, risks, issues and interdependencies and building commitment to advantages realisation.
- Coaching and mentoring FAD Program Management Office staff and delivery teams to strengthen capability and consistent application of program management practices.
- Following up agreed actions, treatments and decisions to support their completion within required timeframes.
- Contributing to team planning, coordination, workflow management and the development of the team's work program in alignment with Program objectives.
- Providing strategic advice and undertaking additional program, governance or assurance activities as directed.

Essential Criteria:

Essential Criteria 1

- Demonstrated experience managing the interrelationships between benefits, risks, issues and dependencies in a large-scale transformation or Tier 1 program, including preparing executive reporting and governance artefacts to support program decision-making.
- Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining benefits frameworks, benefit profiles, risk and issue registers, dependency registers, management plans and governance reporting.
- Solid understanding of program and project management principles, including the integration of benefits, risks, issues and dependencies with planning, delivery, assurance and decision-making.




- Experience facilitating workshops and working with accountable owners and delivery teams to identify, assess, monitor and manage benefits, risks, issues and dependencies.
- Demonstrated ability to analyse complex information, identify emerging or systemic concerns and provide clear, evidence-based advice to senior leaders and governance forums.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information to stakeholders from different backgrounds and levels of seniority.

Essential Criteria 2

- Demonstrated ability to communicate, collaborate and negotiate effectively with team members, business areas, senior executives and external stakeholders.
- Experience working within established governance processes and undertaking assurance and quality-control activities.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and strategic directions while delivering outcomes aligned with program and agency objectives.
- Strong teamwork, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build commitment, clarify accountabilities and support considered outcomes.
- Proven ability to exercise sound professional judgement when dealing with sensitive, complex or high priority matters within legislative, policy and budgetary parameters.
- Must have an Active AGSVA Baseline clearance

Desirable Criteria:

- Relevant tertiary or professional qualifications in program or project management, benefits management, risk management, governance, assurance, business, finance or a related discipline.
- Experience working in agile technology delivery environments, including the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
- Experience integrating benefits, risks, issues and dependencies across policy, regulatory, business, technology and organisational change workstreams.
- Experience designing dashboards, governance reports or other reporting products that communicate trends, interdependencies, emerging risks and benefits realisation.
- Experience supporting program assurance activities, business cases, change control, delivery planning or investment governance.
- Knowledge of Commonwealth governance and resource management frameworks.
- Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly develop knowledge of, Australian electoral law and practice.
- Experience coaching or mentoring program personnel and uplifting organisational capability in benefits, risk, issues and dependencies management.

📌 Benefits Management (Security Clearance) (Melbourne)
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