Senior IT Project Manager

Senior IT Project Manager (Contract)

Melbourne (Docklands) | Hybrid | $950 - $1100/day | 6-month contract

Talenza is partnering with a large, values-led organisation to hire an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to deliver a portfolio of technology initiatives in a complex, stakeholder-rich environment.

This is a hands-on delivery role suited to someone who can run projects end-to-end, keep governance tight, and bring people along the journey.

What you'll be doing

You'll be responsible for:

• Delivering technology projects and work packages end-to-end
• Managing scope, schedule, budget, RAID, change and quality
• Driving delivery across planning, execution, transition and review
• Building strong relationships across internal stakeholders, vendors and governance forums
• Producing clear status reporting, dependency management and delivery updates
• Coordinating project resources in a matrix environment

Projects may span enterprise applications, digital platforms, data & integration services, infrastructure, and specialist technology initiatives.

What we're looking for

You'll bring:

• Demonstrated experience delivering technology projects in complex organisations
• Strong fundamentals across planning, budget tracking, risk/issue management and reporting
• Confident stakeholder management (including senior stakeholders)
• Vendor / third-party delivery experience
• Certification in one or more recognised PM methodologies
• Familiarity with delivery tools such as Microsoft Project and Jira

Nice to have:

• PRINCE2 and/or ITIL exposure
• Experience working in large, regulated environments
• Comfortable working in hybrid/agile ways of working
• Experience working in a federal government department

Clearance / eligibility

To be considered you will need to be able to obtain Baseline clearance (typically requiring Australian citizenship).

If you are interested, please apply via the relevant link. Due to the high volume of applicaitons, it may take some time for us to get back to you.