Be part of the team that is making a difference to Queensland

As the Manager, Portfolio Management Office (PMO), you will work with a team responsible for strategic oversight and portfolio management of the Homes for Queenslanders implementation. The initiatives in Homes for Queenslanders cover every aspect of the housing system: housing affordability, rental market, home ownership, social housing, homelessness, and legislation and reform.

You will work collaboratively with the broader PMO team, and program and project stakeholders across agencies responsible for actions under the Homes for Queenslanders plan, leading specific streams of work to ensure the department is effectively and efficiently monitoring and responding to key issues and priorities.

Job details

What you will be doing
• Work with the PMO team to deliver a portfolio management system and activities, to support the implementation of Homes for Queenslanders, including program and project accountability to deliver positive housing outcomes for Queenslanders in the short, medium and long term.
• Initiate and coordinate integrated cross-agency coordination of monitoring and reporting for Homes for Queenslanders implementation, considering a range of factors including value, time, opportunity and risk, government policy and environmental and community impacts.
• Contribute to implementing and maintaining suitable reporting frameworks including establishing mechanisms for reporting on key milestones, risks, benefits, outcomes and performance.
• Manage stakeholder relationships relating to Homes for Queenslanders implementation with the department and other delivery agencies.
• Support the provision of timely and expert advice to the department's executive as well as whole-of-government governance bodies regarding the performance of Homes for Queenslanders implementation.
• Prepare high-quality reports which transparently and accurately outline the government's performance and demonstrate the progress on change. Whilst ensuring operational efficiencies for data and performance reporting.
• Provide leadership and guidance, fostering ongoing professional development of staff and building the capabilities and leadership skills needed to deliver on its responsibilities and achieve outcomes now and into the future.

What we are looking for
• Expertise in managing, planning, monitoring, evaluating and reporting of performance in project, program or portfolio management settings.
• Demonstrated accountability for delivering results in complex environments.
• Proven experience in facilitating and strengthening partnerships across the department and externally in the delivery of complex work programs.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to manage complex communications.
• Promote a team culture which is future focused and encourages staff to act on opportunities for integration across boundaries, generate innovative ideas, develop solutions and improvements to deliver quality outcomes, including through periods of high-volume workloads and change.
• Experience in providing high quality advice using strong analytical, critical judgment and research skills, with the ability to adopt emerging digital technologies to synthesise information.

Mandatory requirements
Nil.

Please note that due to the recent Machinery of Government change, this is now the Department of Housing, Local Government, Planning and Public Works.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Documents

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• applicant-guide (Word, 1.00MB)
  
  
  575295-24 Role Description2 (Word, 1.01MB)