Your key responsibilities will include:
· Ensure compliance through
actively engaging with project stakeholders and delivery teams, maintaining
adherence to relevant project and portfolio requirements, standards, and AusNet
policies and procedures.
· Define standards, schedule
templates and associated reporting to be used by all Digital Projects aligned
to AusNet delivery methods and needs.
· Work with project leads and key
delivery stakeholders to support portfolio level schedule definition and
management, including identification of cross project interdependencies and
critical path milestones. Assist project leads with approved re-baselining of
schedule/s where required.
· Review project and program
schedules to ensure required quality and specificity, and support identification
of any schedule conflicts and issues that will have a broader portfolio impact.
· Ensure cross project
interdependencies and critical path milestones are appropriately tracked and
actively managed. Supporting the relevant change request process where
required.
· Create, manage and report on
the portfolio master schedule including cross project interdependencies to
enable visibility of delivery to schedule, and early identification of schedule
deviations including impacts to dependent initiatives.
· Identify, develop and embed
continuous improvement opportunities across the portfolio as they relate to
schedule and dependency management
processes applicable during the delivery life-cycle.
· Actively collaborate to share
insights, lessons learned and wins widely with others.
· Be adaptive to changes and
innovations in the digital landscape that can help us grow our network and
support the energy transition.
Technical
and other requirements
Project
management
· Digital delivery specific
process and principles as they relate to schedule definition and
management throughout the project delivery life-cycle.
· Project delivery methodologies
including Waterfall, Agile and SDLC.
Project
Tooling
· Microsoft Project Professional,
Microsoft Project Online, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft Project Centre, Microsoft
Planner and Jira.
Your
skills and experience
Inclusion and Diversity are important to
us. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, one that
fosters belonging, where everyone brings their unique strengths and innovative
ideas.
You ask smart questions, are curious and
improve at pace. Working with others to build on ideas, you have the ability to
simplify complexity and continuously test and learn. You consistently deliver
great results for our customers and stakeholders with care and pride.
Specific experience of relevance
includes:
· Applied experience with Schedule Management at a portfolio level, including:
o critical path and cross project dependency management
o reporting on schedule status, risks and issues
o assessment of portfolio level impacts in the event of milestone change
or schedule slippage
· Strong understanding on waterfall/agile delivery methodologies and
deliverables/artefacts
· Highly skilled in Microsoft Project Plan and supporting project and
program management tools such as Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft Project
Online and Jira.
· Relevant training or qualification in project and program management
would be favourable.
· Has demonstrated experience working in a multi-vendor project
environment.
· Experience with guiding
business strategy around project tooling use, governance and adoption across teams.
Desirable experience:
· Supporting or delivering the
transition from Microsoft Project Online to Microsoft Project Server, including
schedule migration, environmental configuration and impacts to portfolio
reporting and governance.
