Role: Project Support Officer

Contract duration: 12 months

Extension Term: 12 months

Number of Extensions: 2

Location of work: ACT

Overview

Our large Federal Government Client are seeking for Project Support Officer to work within there department to provide administrative support for a range of technically orientated projects and programs and diverse stakeholders.

Project Support Officer will engage with a number of stakeholders across the organisation and contribute to a variety of business, governance and reporting requirements for the Project Management Office (PMO) including but not limited to:

• Knowledge of Defence financial processes
• Experience/ability to lead a small finance team of 2 - 3 people
• Experience in the use of BORIS/ROMAN
• Motivation to autonomously investigate and resolve inconsistencies in data.
• Developing and maintaining program management dashboards, reporting processes and artefacts
• Managing Program reporting requirements by providing advice and direction to Program staff on the use of program reporting tools;
• Defining, establishing and maintaining access controls and quality processes for the Program;
• Maintaining program and project risk registers, including scheduling regular reviews and updates; and facilitating risk workshops.
• Providing support to program and project areas to assist with Commonwealth procurement activities;
• Maintaining configuration control of all program artefacts entered into the EDRMS;
• Investigating issues of medium complexity and producing related briefs for SES officer consumption; and
• Assisting with general administrative tasks to support the planning and conduct of program boards.

Selection Criteria

Essential Criteria:

• Knowledge of Defence financial processes
• Experience/ability to lead a small finance team of 2 - 3 people
• Experience in the use of BORIS/ROMAN
• Motivation to autonomously investigate and resolve inconsistencies in data.
• Demonstrated experience as a Project Support Officer including the following:
• Developing and maintaining program or project management dashboards and artefacts;
• Assisting with general administrative tasks to support the planning and conduct of program or project boards or similar;
• Maintaining program or project risk registers, including scheduling reviews and facilitating risk meetings;
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office suite of tools and
• Demonstrated experience in using an EDRMS tool

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience in supporting Programs & Projects with the financial management including resource and budget planning, review of monthly Program Financial expenditure and monthly accrual & variance reporting;
• Knowledge of Program and Project Management methodologies, including PRINCE2/Agile and Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) and experience in the use of a project scheduling tool;
• Understanding of Commonwealth procurement legislative requirements; and
• Produced briefs for senior management.

Please note, due to the nature of the work Australian Citizenship and an active NV1 clearance is mandatory

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Thao Dinh
Recruitment Consultant
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