Delivery Manager
- Canberra
- Estimated start date 20/1/2025
- 12 month contract with 2×12 month extension options
- Baseline clearance is required
- This is an ACT based role. Remote working arrangements may be considered on a case-by-case basis, subject to business needs.
A Delivery Manager is required for the implementation of a new Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).
The LIMS Simplification Project is a collaborative project involving stakeholders from across different branches and the Department. The aims of the project are to:
- Provide a unified foundation for NMI’s chemical and biological laboratories.
- Reduce risks related to the maintenance and security of ICT systems.
- Improve process efficiency and service delivery.
- Improve client satisfaction.
As the LIMS Delivery Manager, your responsibilities will be to:
- Monitor and track project progress, ensuring alignment with delivery timelines and objectives.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including developers, external vendors, and other project staff.
- Maintain detailed plans, schedules, and logs for risks, issues, and changes.
- Facilitate regular stand-ups, status meetings, and working sessions to resolve blockers.
- Draft project reports and other project artefacts and deliverables, for review by the Project Manager.
- Assist in preparing stakeholder presentations and updates.
- Support resource allocation by liaising with team leads.
- Track vendor deliverables, monitor contract compliance, and escalate issues when necessary.
- Act as a point of contact for routine communications with vendors and suppliers.
- Assist in deployment planning, readiness checks, and documentation.
- Monitor project risks and issues, documenting, and escalating medium to high-priority concerns.
- Follow up on risk mitigation actions and update risk and issue logs accordingly.
- Organise team training, onboarding sessions, and knowledge-sharing activities.
Selection Criteria
- Demonstrated experience in leading cross functional agile project teams delivering critical and complex programs of work.
- Highly developed communication and negotiation skills to ensure the appropriate level of communication, coordination and collaboration of stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, which may include business partners, cross-agency collaborations and service providers.
- Experience with / and application of project management frameworks/ methodologies (such as Agile and Hybrid Agile, Prince2, PMP etc.). Certification in these methodologies is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated high level of commitment, self-motivation and initiative, and to exercise sound judgement in a dynamic environment.