About the role
In this role, you will lead a program of work that will enable the successful delivery of the City’s key Strategy & Performance initiatives. Critical to this role is the ability to guide stakeholders through the successful delivery of projects that will realise the City’s strategic objectives, whilst adhering to specified scope, budget, and timelines.

Work type: Temporary, fulltime (12-month contract)
Classification: Band 8 ($115,035 - $127,911)

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the planning and delivery of Strategy & Performance focused projects.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders to communicate the project outcomes and overseeing the design and execution of project plans ensuring that all deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
• Coordinating project activities and managing the production of project and workstream plans.
• Planning and delivering stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective project working relationships and be a primary point of contact for stakeholders.
• Accurately forecasting, managing, and deploying project resources, monitoring project expenditures, tracking costs, effectively managing budgets, and identifying opportunities for cost savings.
• Collaborating with procurement teams to source and manage contractors, suppliers, and other resources necessary for project execution.
• Identifying, monitoring, and evaluating risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints throughout the project lifecycle, identifying, and implementing solutions or strategies to mitigate their impact, and escalate issues as required.
• Preparing regular progress reports and project documentation, including project plans, status updates, risk assessments, and financial reports to support the review process and benefit capture.
• Maintaining accurate project records, including contracts, permits, and other relevant documentation.

About you
To be successful in this role you will have demonstrated experience as a Project Manager with experience in establishing, maintaining, and positively leveraging effective stakeholder relationships in an environment with complex internal and external stakeholders.

Essential Experience:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in project management or other relevant qualification with experience in a similar position.
• Working knowledge of project management methodologies, tools and best practices (including Prince2).
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders and manage relationships effectively.
• Demonstrated experience in budgeting and cost control.
• Project management experience in transformation or business improvement projects.
• Strong conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and solution-oriented approach.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication, negotiation, presentation skills, both written and verbal.

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

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.  

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger. 

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

A career with us
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language.  Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people.  We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you. 

We offer:

• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning 

Applications and Enquiries

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Enquiries: Sonia Cheema | Talent Acquisition Specialist | sonia.cheema@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

Click the Apply button to submit your application or find out more about this opportunity. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at careers@geelongcity.vic.gov.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.

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