Principal Project Manager / PMO Lead

Principle Project Manager / PMO Lead

Location – Parramatta – 50% Hybrid

Employment type – Ongoing – Full-time

Salary – Clerk Grade 11/12 $154,231- $178,369 plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

Lead the end-to-end delivery of assigned complex, high-risk digital and ICT projects and lead Program Management Office (PMO) services for the assigned portfolio or program environment. The role is accountable for achieving approved project outcomes and for establishing proportionate governance, integrated planning, controls, reporting, assurance and delivery practices that provide senior leaders with reliable evidence, improve delivery confidence and support public value.

What you’ll do

• Lead assigned projects from business case and initiation through implementation, operational transition and closure.
• Control project scope, schedule, finances, resources, risks, issues, dependencies and changes against approved baselines.
• Lead multidisciplinary delivery teams and suppliers, resolving performance and contractual issues.
• Establish proportionate PMO governance, methods, templates and controls across agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery.
• Maintain an integrated view of milestones, capacity, investments, dependencies, risks and benefits across the portfolio.
• Provide reliable executive dashboards, forecasts, decision papers and evidence-based delivery advice.
• Coordinate health checks, stage gates and assurance, arranging independent review of projects directly managed.
• Improve portfolio reporting, data quality, PPM tools, automation and delivery capability.

What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated leadership of a PMO or portfolio governance function across multiple delivery approaches.
• Strong expertise in integrated delivery planning, financial and resource controls, risk, change and benefits management.
• Ability to provide frank, evidence-based advice to executives and influence contested delivery decisions.
• Proven capability managing suppliers, multidisciplinary teams and delivery assurance in regulated environments.

• Tertiary qualifications in portfolio, program or project management, business, information technology or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant knowledge, skills and experience. A recognised portfolio, program, project, PMO or agile certification is desirable.

• Experience in delivering projects in NSW Government or other regulated service-delivery organisations.
• Relevant PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, agile, portfolio or PMO certification.
• Experience in improving portfolio management tools, dashboards and delivery governance.

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career

• Flexible, autonomous work environment

• Competitive pay and conditions

• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities

• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

• Describe a complex digital or ICT project you led from planning through implementation. How did you manage delivery risks, resources, dependencies and competing priorities to achieve the agreed outcomes?
• Tell us about a time you established or improved PMO governance, reporting or delivery controls across multiple projects. What changes did you introduce, how did you influence stakeholders, and what measurable improvements resulted?

Applications close 20 November 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Raymond Brown on 0422453355 or at Raymond.Brown@homes.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Meryl Georges on 8688 7252 or via meryl.georges@dcj.nsw.gov.au

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Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

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