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Employment Status: Permanent, full time
Days & Hours of Work: Monday to Friday, totalling 38 hours per week
Competitive Salary: Band 7 - Total Remuneration Package from $123,950 - $138,855 per annum commensurate with skills, experience etc. and including 11.5% superannuation
Location: Corporate Centre in Sandringham, with the flexibility to work from home

About Us:

We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Customer Experience and Results Matter.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving – and excited about our future – as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

About the Role:

Here at Bayside, we have adopted an exciting four-year capital works program, and are on the lookout for an enthusiastic, driven and community minded Senior Project Manager. You will join our collaborative and supportive Project Services team, to support and deliver Capital Projects in the Bayside Municipality.

You will provide end to end Project Management services on large scale building and infrastructure projects from inception right through to hand over, providing excellent stakeholder management skills.

The Capital Projects you will be delivering are of a high-profile nature and lead the way, being delivered in a collaborative, sustainable and innovative manner. This is an exciting time to be joining the team, where there is plenty to inspire you every day.

You will be responsible for:

• Project Delivery - To the satisfaction of the Capital Projects Lead, the Senior Project Manager’s role is to deliver capital and infrastructure projects through efficient and effective implementation of the Project Management Framework.
• Project Management - Developing and maintaining an effective plan of all project activities at all times including the management of project interdependencies and constraints.
• Stakeholder Management - Effectively manage and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Operational Management - Effective contract management including design, costing and construction issues.
• General Management - Providing sound technical advice to the broader community supporting customer satisfaction.

Key Selection Criteria:

To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

• Tertiary qualifications in project management, engineering, construction management or relevant qualification.
• Extensive experience in the end to end delivery of large and complex built form and infrastructure projects in the Local Government sector.
• Excellent skills and experience in stakeholder management (internal and external) with a strong ability to collaborate effectively with project teams, project sponsors, community groups and other relevant stakeholders.

Mandatory pre-employment requirements:

• Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check.
• Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check. 

What we can offer you in return: 

• A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year.
• Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts.
• Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive.
• A Parkland surrounded office that is only short 500m stroll to the beach.
• Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel.
• A Green Money program, that rewards our staff for taking simple everyday steps to a more substantiable and climate aware living.

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

 How to apply:

1. To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Description
2. Provide a cover letter responding to the Key Selection Criteria and what has motivated you to apply for this role.
3. Click Apply to submit your application.
4. If you require reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed Hiring Manager.

Applications close: Monday 15 July, 11:55pm

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or have any question, please contact Rebecca Graham, Capital Projects Lead via email at rgraham@bayside.vic.gov.au

Bayside City Council prides itself on its values of Respect Each Other, Own It, Work Together and Find Better Ways.

Bayside City Council proudly acknowledges the Bunurong People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land, and we pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging as well as all Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community members with us today.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to an equitable, diverse and socially inclusive work environment. We actively encourage applicants with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with disability, LGBTIQA+ people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this opportunity.