Job Title: Portfolio Specialist, EPMO

• Up to $188k package
• Permanent Opportunity
• Sydney CBD + WFH
• Federal Government

About the Role:

This Federal Government organisations's Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) is a centralised function responsible for providing effective governance over its strategic investment portfolio.

Their goals are to strengthen project management practices, provide assurance and oversight across the portfolio and guide improved project governance and delivery. The EPMO supports the evaluation, prioritisation, and ongoing monitoring of the project portfolio, and provides advice and support to the Investment Committee and Change Coordination Committee.

In this position, you will provide support for the governance, prioritisation and ongoing monitoring of the project portfolio including reporting to senior governance groups.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively across the organisation to support the evaluation, prioritisation and sequencing of the Bank’s enterprise projects and initiatives, to achieve organisational objectives.
• Provide accurate and timely information to enable strategic decisions based on a clear understanding of cost, risk, impact and benefits to be realised. This includes producing timely reporting, analysis and insights that support the Bank's decision making.
• Support the review and evaluation of new Business Cases and Change Requests, ensuring quality submissions are made to the Investment Committee.
• Apply the Bank's portfolio prioritisation framework to projects and BAU initiatives and continue to evolve the framework to meet the needs of the organisation.
• Provide transparency of project benefits, benefits realisation and thematic risks and issues across the portfolio.
• Provide timely assessment of portfolio performance, as well as early identification of and options for resolution of portfolio-level risks and issues impacting the portfolio.
• Support the transparency of dependencies at a portfolio level, reporting on potential impacts and possible remediation strategies.
• Ensure that portfolio governance reporting requirements are met.
• Proactively seek opportunities to streamline and automate portfolio management reporting, processes and procedures.
• Support Secretariat activities for the Investment Committee and Change Coordination Committee.

Key Skills:

• Experience in enterprise portfolio management, enterprise prioritisation frameworks and planning.
• Extensive experience in portfolio analysis and presenting thematic insights for senior governance groups (e.g. benefits/ risks/ dependencies, etc).
• Strong knowledge of Project Management methodologies, frameworks, techniques and tools.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (verbal and written).
• Experience with Data Analytics tools (e.g. PowerBI) and Work Management tools (e.g. JIRA) is highly desirable.

If this looks like your next career step, please apply and Lachlan will call you.