ARDC Project Manager
Job No.: 678047
Location: Caulfield campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Fixed-term appointment until 1st May 2026
Remuneration: $116,075 - $128,126 p.a. HEW Level 8 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
The Opportunity
Are you a skilled Project Manager with a passion for delivering impactful projects? Do you excel in coordinating complex initiatives and building strong relationships with stakeholders? If so, we want you to join our team at ARDC!
As a Project Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in the end-to-end delivery of ARDC projects, focusing on the Services Business Unit. You'll be the key liaison between project teams and stakeholders, ensuring timely and successful project outcomes. Your expertise will help ARDC achieve its strategic goals through best practices and contemporary approaches.
What you’ll do:
- Project Coordination: Scope and plan project deliverables, monitor budgets and timelines, and manage project meetings.
- Project Management: Provide high-level administration, advice, and recommendations to ensure project success.
- Budget Support: Assist with budget management, contribute to proposals, project plans and develop comprehensive reports.
- Task Oversight: Plan and oversee project tasks, ensuring they meet agreed standards and timeframes.
- Stakeholder Guidance: Provide guidance to project team members and liaise with internal and external stakeholders for excellence in delivery.
- Research and Analysis: Conduct research, analyse results, and provide innovative solutions to complex project issues.
- Relationship Building: Develop and maintain effective relationships with colleagues and stakeholders to foster collaboration.
- Risk Management: Identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring smooth project execution.
What you’ll bring:
- Education/Qualifications: Postgraduate qualifications or extensive relevant experience, PRINCE2 Practitioner or PRINCE2 Agile qualifications.
- Project Management Skills: Proven record of managing medium to large scale projects successfully.
- Organisational Skills: Strong planning and organisational abilities to meet deadlines and allocate resources effectively.
- Relationship Management: Excellent skills in interacting, influencing, and negotiating with diverse stakeholders.
- Analytical Skills: Ability to quickly assimilate new concepts and deliver innovative solutions.
- Communication Skills: Superior interpersonal and communication skills, including professional documentation and presentations.
- Initiative and Judgment: Ability to handle situations requiring independent judgment and sensitivity.
- Best Practices Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of PMBOK, PRINCE2, and Agile principles.
- Experience: Experience working with distributed teams and in the higher education or research sector, with an understanding of research infrastructure.
Join us at ARDC and be part of a team dedicated to delivering large-scale national investments into the research sector. Apply now and make a significant impact with your project management expertise!
About Monash University
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We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to
'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application must address the Key Selection Criteria.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Julie McCusker, PMO Manager, ARDC, +61 3 9902 0567 or Julie.McCusker@ands.edu.au
Position Description: Project Manager
Applications Close: Monday 14 April 2025, 11:55pm AEST
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