AI Portfolio & Engagement Advisor

This is a highly visible role that will act as the primary engagement point for business areas seeking to explore and adopt artificial intelligence. You will identify and shape AI opportunities, guide initiatives through governance and delivery pathways, and help ensure investment delivers measurable organisational value.

The opportunity
You will work at the intersection of business strategy, innovation, governance and technical delivery. Building relationships across the organisation, you will help stakeholders translate business challenges into clearly defined and appropriately governed AI initiatives.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Building trusted relationships with business areas to understand their priorities, challenges and opportunities
• Facilitating discovery workshops, ideation sessions and stakeholder consultations
• Identifying and assessing potential AI use cases
• Defining expected business outcomes, benefits and success measures
• Assessing opportunities for strategic alignment, value, feasibility and organisational readiness
• Developing initiative concepts, value propositions and preliminary business cases
• Guiding AI opportunities from initial idea through governance and implementation
• Managing the AI Initiatives Register and broader opportunity pipeline
• Supporting portfolio prioritisation, demand management and investment planning
• Monitoring initiative progress, dependencies, risks, benefits and delivery status
• Coordinating engagement with security, privacy, architecture, information management and legal stakeholders
• Supporting business areas with FAIRA assessments and other governance requirements
• Facilitating benefits planning, change readiness and adoption activities
• Preparing executive reports, dashboards, briefings and portfolio insights
• Promoting AI literacy, adoption, lessons learned and Communities of Practice
• Contributing to the continued development of AI governance, operating models and engagement frameworks

About you

You will be a confident and influential engagement professional who can connect business needs with technical delivery. You will be comfortable working across diverse stakeholder groups, navigating governance processes and presenting complex information clearly to senior leaders.

• Business relationship management
• Portfolio, pipeline or demand management
• Business analysis and opportunity assessment
• Senior stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation
• Digital transformation, innovation or emerging technology
• Governance, risk and assurance processes
• Benefits management and business case development
• Executive reporting, dashboards and briefing materials
• AI strategy, governance, implementation or organisational adoption
• Previous experience within a large, complex or government environment understood.

Contract details

• Contract period: 28 September 2026 to 24 September 2027
• Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• Work location: Carseldine
• Flexible working: Up to 50% work from home
• Applications close: COB Wednesday, 2 September 2026

This is an excellent opportunity to play an important role in shaping an enterprise AI portfolio and helping business areas progress valuable AI opportunities safely, strategically and successfully.

Apply now with your current résumé outlining your relevant experience. Applications may be reviewed as they are received, so early applications are encouraged. If you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Leisa Collins on 0439 074 *** or email ********@aspirante.com.au.