Digital Projects Director

Location Brisbane
Job reference 160895
Salary Negotiable


A large Government Agency is seeking a Digital Project Director to join their team in a fixed term contract role. This is a Brisbane based role.


The Digital Projects Director is responsible for:

  • Developing the Digital Program in alignment with the Digital and other organisational strategies, business needs, the Digital Operating Model, roadmaps and architectures.
  • Ensuring that the relevant projects under the Digital Program deliver the required products within specified tolerances of time, cost quality, scope, risk and benefits.
  • Development and management of project plans, schedules, budgets, changes, risk / issue and dependency registers.
  • Delivery of multiple simultaneous technical projects, each with varying complexity and duration.
  • Ensuring resources, capacity and dependencies are managed for successful delivery.
  • Providing accurate and timely project status reports.
  • Authoring and delivering effective issues / options papers to enable decision-making by Boards and senior leadership (technical and non-technical topics).
  • Maintaining effective relationships with key stakeholders, senior leadership and other Commission Officers.
  • Managing external vendors, which includes facilitating procurement processes, task allocations, supervision, direction, and review of deliverable (technical and non-technical).
  • Contributing to cross functional Digital delivery planning and forecasting.

Key accountabilities of the role
The successful candidate will demonstrate:

  • Significant experience in developing Digital programs of work.
  • Significant experience in initiating, managing, delivering and closing technology projects in highly regulated environments.
  • Technical knowledge and delivery experience with the Microsoft technology stack, including Azure, Office 365, Azure DevOps, Modern Device Management, Defender and Windows 10.
  • Stakeholder engagement and management experience in a project context, including the management of external vendors.
  • Sound risk and issue identification and management. Previous application of these skills in a complex information technology project and/or highly regulated environment are considered highly desirable.
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills, both written and oral, applied to:
    • Developing reports, briefs, options papers and presentations that translate complex technical, business, project and planning issues into plain English to enable senior decision making.
    • Establishing and managing teams that ensure the successful delivery of projects.
    • Persuade and negotiate with sophisticated stakeholders to resolve issues that are critical to the organisation's operations.
    • Work with stakeholders to understand functional and business requirements.


Qualifications/professional registration/other requirements

  • Certified copies of all qualifications must be produced at time of interview
  • Possession of tertiary qualifications in Information Technology is a highly desirable. Qualifications acquired from an overseas educational institution will only be accepted where the qualification has been recognised to an equivalent level in accordance with the Australian Qualifications Framework.


Possession of Microsoft certifications in Azure and Office 365 is highly desirable.

To submit for this role please send me copy of your updated resume to my email:

Tass Hassoun
Recruitment Specialist

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