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Project Director

Leaders

Government - Federal
Location
Brisbane, QLD
Type
Full-time

About the role

Role - Project Director
  • Legacy system replacement
  • Complex multi-year project
  • Long term, 12 months 
  • 3 X 12 months possible extensions
  • Brisbane CBD based
  • Competitive daily rate
  • Open to Brisbane based candidates only 
About the role
Our government-sector client is seeking to engage an experienced Project Director to lead a major modernisation initiative aimed at improving vehicle registration and licensing services and replacing legacy technology within the transport sector.

In this role, you will 
  • Provide strategic leadership for a large-scale transformation program, aligning stakeholders, teams, priorities, and delivery outcomes to a clear roadmap.
  • Drive end-to-end program delivery, overseeing planning, governance, budgets, procurement, risks, vendor management, and executive reporting.
  • Lead technology and business transformation, including platform transition, data migration, integration, compliance, change management, operational readiness, and capability uplift.
Required skills
  • Executive leadership delivering complex business and digital transformation, including legacy system modernisation
  • Coordination of multidisciplinary teams and delivery partners across business and technical workstreams
  • Integrated planning, commercial and financial control, governance and assurance, and executive-level reporting
  • Senior stakeholder engagement, decision support, and resolution of complex risks, issues, and cross-dependencies
  • Service transition leadership, organisational change, capability uplift, and benefits realisation
  • Oversight of architecture, data, security, privacy, and operational readiness within a controlled delivery environment
  • Experience applying PRINCE2
  • Experience delivering within Queensland Government enterprise architecture, assurance, and digital investment governance requirements
  • Experience managing legacy coexistence, data migration, operational readiness, and knowledge transfer
** Closing date 2nd November

Discover our exclusive contractor benefits at Peoplebank
  • Peoplebank offers a suite of benefits for our direct contractors. Save with car leasing through Autopia and utilise salary packaging for superannuation and approved items.
  • Benefit from PeopleSense Employee Assistance Program for emotional support.
  • Seamlessly transition between contracts with our Next Job Program.
  • Multiple pay runs a week
  • Genuine contractor care - regular touch points with a dedicated account manage
Explore these benefits today and enhance your contracting experience with Peoplebank.


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