About the role

As Assistant Project Manager/Project Officer you’ll be responsible for assisting senior project managers in planning, organising, and overseeing projects by developing timelines, coordinating tasks, monitoring progress, communicating with team members, and identifying potential risks, all while working under close supervision to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.

What you’ll be doing day-to-day

• Project Planning and Documentation: Helping to develop and implement project plans, timelines, and budgets, as well as creating and maintaining project documentation and records.
• Task Management and Communication: Assigning tasks to team members, tracking their progress, and facilitating communication between team members, stakeholders, and clients.
• Performance Monitoring and Risk Management: Monitoring project performance against key metrics, identifying and escalating potential risks and issues, and assisting in the preparation of project reports and presentations.
• Resource and Quality Management: Supporting the project manager in resource allocation and management, contributing to WHSE, quality control, ensuring project deliverables meet standards, and updating project databases with order progression.
• External Contractor Management: Managing external contractors to ensure project goals are met.

What you’ll bring to this role

Preferred:

• A Tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience
• Good attention to detail, Persistent, eliminates roadblocks and utilises resources to get things done.
• Excellent organisation skills and the ability to manage and meet competing deadlines.
• Experience and knowledge in Telecommunications fibre network deployment. (Telstra Standards and Optical Fibre Civil construction experience will be highly regarded)

Mandatory:

• Previous experience in a Telecommunications Service Delivery or Projectised environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good Computer Skills , Microsoft Office Suite , Project Management Information Systems
  Organisation skills and the ability to manage and meet competing deadlines.
  Confident managing stakeholders at all levels and negotiate or navigate to seek resolution
  Ability to liaise with all areas of the business
  Understanding of Telecommunications industry regulations. (Telco Act)
  Ability to interpret plans, relevant legislation and LGA regulations.
• Ability to analyse problems and seek solutions.
• Self-Directing and willing to learn
• Project Management Qualifications e.g. PMP, Prince 2 , Agile

What We Offer

Working at Vocus will give you rewarding experiences and the opportunity to do extraordinary work. You will enjoy:

• Diverse and dynamic teams with a supportive and inclusive culture.
• Supportive career development plans with comprehensive ongoing training, support, and development opportunities.
• Flexible hours and a hybrid working environment
• Generous discounts to over 400 retailers.
• Competitive leave benefits, including anniversary leave, purchased leave, parental leave, volunteering leave, study leave, and much more. We also offer a fifth week of annual leave when you hit five years of service!
• Study assistance programs to excel your personal growth, learning and development.
• Health and wellness offerings, including access to our wellbeing initiatives that can help you from a financial, psychological, and physical perspective.

Working at Vocus is never just a job – it’s personal. We’re crazy about our customers and believe our people are the difference. Our wonderfully diverse team and a vibrant culture define us. We care about the impact we have on our people, our customers, and our communities and are committed to operating as a responsible, ethical business.

We pride ourselves on setting audacious and ambitious goals and believe that we can play our part in changing the Australian telecommunications landscape and make a fundamental difference to people’s lives.

With us, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and inspire teams, work on projects that are shaping the future of telecommunications and become part of a culture that thrives on creativity, encourages new ideas, and provides a collaborative and inclusive environment.

About Us

As Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, we own and operate 25,000km of secure, high-capacity fibre connecting people, businesses, governments, and communities across Australia to the world. Through our well-known retail brands, we deliver simple and affordable broadband, mobile, voice and energy services with the purpose of Building Critical Connections. Enabling Better Possibilities.

Ready to take the next step?

If you like the sound of this role and think you’d do a great job, but are worried you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to back yourself – we know that diverse groups are less-likely to apply for roles they’re not 100% qualified for, but just as likely to succeed at them!

We are a proud equal opportunity employer committed to providing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where all our team members feel like they belong. We know diversity makes us stronger and we encourage applications irrespective of background, age, origin, gender, sexual orientation, identity, or ability.

If you feel comfortable, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements upon application, so we can make any adjustments required to support you throughout our recruitment process.