Would you like an exciting opportunity to join a team of highly skilled and motivated Information & Communication Technology (ICT) professionals with a passion for delivering impactful infrastructure solutions to help every student realise their potential? We thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working on diverse and complex projects.

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About the Role:

As a Senior Project Officer, you will play a crucial role in delivering Network Hardware and Structured Communications Cabling infrastructure solutions for an extensive portfolio of ICT Infrastructure Projects. Every year, the Department delivers projects across its vast network of 1280+ State School sites. You will be instrumental in ensuring that these projects on in full, on cost and in time to bring about and maintain a reliable ICT infrastructure environment for schools and corporate offices.

You will assist the Project and Program Managers in collaborating with key internal and external stakeholders including Suppliers, to manage the end-to-end delivery of ICT infrastructure projects into the Department of Education sites. The role covers the entire Project Delivery lifecycle.

This is a fantastic opportunity to leverage your technical, managerial, and people skills to make a tangible difference in the educational landscape of Queensland.

Support Services Project Delivery team prides itself on being dynamic and supportive, where your expertise will be valued, and your contributions will be recognised.

About You:

To be successful in this role, it would be highly desirable that you will have many or all of the following key characteristics and attributes:

• Capacity to support complex ICT projects including the timely delivery of relevant project control documents and registers, project plans and progress reports against project objectives.
• Capable of prioritising, scheduling, and performing work to meet deadlines, commitments, and client service standards including managing conflicting priorities and diverse stakeholder expectations.
• Be a team player and support team members, with diverse skillsets, to undertake and achieve a variety of project outcomes. This includes supporting project finance and procurement specialists.
• Be a competent communicator who can establish productive, professional relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Have demonstrated conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills to research and develop solutions to complex challenges, clearly document workflows and systems and achieve effective results within desired timeframes.
• Capable of performing project-level budget management.
• Ability to utilise modern desktop toolsets to develop bespoke reporting in an ever-evolving sponsor and stakeholder landscape. The department extensively subscribes to the Microsoft suite of desktop products. Prior experience with Microsoft Project is a plus.
• Possessing subject matter expertise in an ICT infrastructure discipline is highly desirable.
• Having experience delivering a pipeline of ICT change initiatives, on and end-to-end basis, in a greenfield and brownfield environment where change windows are extremely constrained.
• Demonstrated project delivery experience, with at least 5 years' experience in support of delivering ICT infrastructure projects.
• Prior experience supporting ICT enabled projects in a complex operating environment
• Demonstrated skills in the use of project management tools and their application including demonstrated skill in the financial, functional and technical management of project activities and the ability to support the administration of entire project teams.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, and as a member of a high performing team, in a complex operating environment.

Interested? To Apply: 

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
• Attach a 2-page response to the How you will/may be assessed section of the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. 

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

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Further information

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

For a full list of the position responsibilities and mandatory requirements, please ensure you download the attached role description and candidate information fact sheet and follow the instructions.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Applicant Information Package (PDF, 245KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  CO641739_25P Role Description (PDF, 136KB)
  Role Description