About the role

The Program Manager will collaborate with a diverse range of senior leaders across the organisation, ensuring that interrelated projects deliver value, meet performance targets, and are executed with strong stakeholder engagement and risk management.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide strategic direction and hands-on leadership across cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and future business objectives. Develop and communicate a clear vision and actionable goals for the department.
• Act as a trusted advisor, leading engagement with stakeholders at all levels—from delivery partners to executive leadership—while effectively navigating organisational complexity and aligning diverse interests.
• Coach and manage leaders and professionals, fostering an inclusive, accountable, and customer-focused culture. Ensure teams feel valued, supported, and equipped for success
• Maintain effective organisational structures and communication channels to drive staff engagement, commitment, and results. Motivate teams through strong operational leadership and clarity of purpose.
• Oversee the planning and execution of the ACE program, ensuring successful integration across diverse business areas, technologies, and stakeholder groups.
• Manage all aspects of program delivery—including budgets, resources, governance, and quality—while monitoring performance to ensure alignment with business objectives and delivery targets.
• Lead the strategic direction of the program, offering expert guidance in planning, technology, business process design, risk, and stakeholder management.
• Manage the progress and integration of individual projects within the program, ensuring key milestones are achieved and dependant systems and business processes are aligned, and optimised as needed.
• Identify and mitigate program risks early, resolve conflicts, and manage interdependencies across projects and workstreams.
• Develop and track KPIs and program metrics to monitor effectiveness, identify trends, and support informed decision-making.

About you

To be successful in the role, you will have a tertiary qualification in relevant fields such as Information Technology, Computer Science or Business Management in addition to professional experience in program management and delivery.

Essential Experience:

• Demonstrated experience delivering a complex digital transformation program covering both business and technology domains.
• Strong understanding and experience in the implementation of, or working with modern ERP (e.g. CRM, Asset), or similarly related enterprise business systems, and technology platforms.
• Demonstrated people management skills to support, influence and foster a productive team culture.
• Accomplished negotiation, writing, presentation and public speaking skills to influence stakeholders and achieve support for department outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience at a Program Manager level delivering complex business systems, technology platforms and business process.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now! 

A career with us

We’d love for you to continue your career with the City and set the benchmark for a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace.  With a range of benefits, flexible working options, learning and development opportunities, support services and the opportunity to give back to the community, the City has so much to offer!

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Applications and Enquiries

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Enquiries: Nikki Short - Senior Talent Acquisition Partner | nikki.short@geelongcity.vic.gov.au 

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