40-2022 - El1 Assistant Director - Project

Law Division is seeking an Assistant Director - Project Facilitation to support managing the delivery of legislation and other projects in the division.

The Assistant Director, Project Facilitation role is located in the Program Governance Unit (PGU) of Law Division. PGU's operations cover project management and facilitation of legislative projects, legislation coordination and delivery, system design and analysis and program governance.

PGU is a high tempo, change-oriented work environment which works with law design teams, legal officers, policy teams and Ministers' Offices to provide governance and coordination for Law Division's legislation development, legal, parliamentary and information law work streams.

The role is a hands-on project management and facilitation role, where the position holder works collaboratively with policy and legal teams to support timely delivery of high profile legislative reforms. The role will also involve training and supporting Executive and APS level staff in the division in project management skills, to build their capability to manage smaller-scale projects.

The position requires strong communication and relationship management skills, and is suited to people who want to work in a highly collaborative multi-disciplinary environment that values innovation. You should have the ability to respond flexibly to constantly evolving circumstances to deliver integrated governance oversight, program coordination and project delivery solutions across Law Division's functions.

• The position involves
• Providing tailored project facilitation support to a range of legislative and non-legislative projects undertaken by law design and other specialist teams in Law Division. The key aspects of this are :
• establishing and operating governance and assurance structures for diverse and complex projects, and adapting governance arrangements to suit evolving project requirements
• developing customised delivery timeframes for projects, which are shaped according to project complexity, stakeholder dynamics, and dependencies with other priority projects across government; and
• working with project leads in a project management capacity to manage project reporting and delivery.
• Critically analysing projects and work programs across Law Division to inform the design of business improvements, such as new project tracking and reporting tools, or workflow changes.
• Working with senior leaders, policy divisions and law design teams to monitor and address risks and delivery pressures across the legislation program.

This recruitment process will be used to create a merit list for similar project management or project facilitation roles in Treasury.

Experience in project management or facilitation roles, and / or project management qualifications, will be highly regarded.

Knowledge of legislation processes is desirable but not essential.