Application closing date: Sunday, 22 May 2022, 06:00 pm (in Canberra)

Estimated start date: Mon May 30 2022

Location of work: Australian Capital Territory

Length of contract: 12 Months

Contract extensions: 1x 12 month extension subject to funds availability and delegate approval

Security clearance: Must have current baseline clearance (Must be Australian Citizen)

Rates: $110 - $130 per hour (inc. super)


The Department of Education, Skills and Employment is seeking a Agile Project Manager or Agile Lead.

The candidate will be:
• Adept at program level planning, managing dependencies, progress, risks and issues
• Focused on delivery across 10-20+ Scrum Teams, supporting and enabling them to succeed
• Experienced facilitator of large events and be able to keep groups on time and scope targets
• Comfortable with a broad program, changing priorities, managing expectations and working with senior stakeholders
• Demonstrated agile values and mindset
• Enthusiastic, and full of personal drive
• Capable of leading digital transformation projects from start to finish
• Willing to share your knowledge and expertise with your team and the people around you
• Prolific in innovative ideas and output


Essential Criteria

  1. Outline your experience and approach to successfully deliver large scale SAFe/Agile based program(s).
  2. Tell us about a professional contribution you have made to a product, service, team or organisation of which you are proud.
  3. Outline your experience in managing the planning, implementation and successful agile delivery of a complex transformational project
  4. Please Provide an example of when you demonstrated a high degree of organisational and time management skills and were able to achieve priorities whilst working to tight deadlines


Desirable Criteria

  1. Experience using Azure DevOps and/or Jira Align for Agile Methodology
  2. Outline what SAFe and Scrum certifications you have achieved
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