rpln0139912-program & pm.

• Domain knowledge and skills, such as Chemicals, Deepwater, Retail, Finance, Legal, HR, and Capital Project lines of business and functions;
• Technology skills, such as cloud, mobile, software-as-a-service, and digital platforms;
• Professional skills, such as leadership, communication and resilience; and 
• Entrepreneurial skills, such as a business-value mindset, critical thinking, storytelling, stakeholder management, and enabling value creation.
 
Leadership Skills
As a program and project management professional you are also a leader in the natural team and are required to continuously develop your leadership behaviours:• Live our values and goal zero - We do the right thing with respect to our values, safety and people.
• Maximise our performance - We focus on priorities, seek improvements and work together across teams to close our gap to potential and deliver bottom line commercial results.
• We work outside in and build strong long-term relationships with customers, partners, and external parties and make a positive contribution to society.
• Engage & inspire - We engage everyone through our connected purpose and inspire people and teams be their best through development, coaching and honest feedback.
• Learner mindset - We have a shared belief that everyone can grow their ability, learn from mistakes & successes and speak up openly in a safe environment.You will be expected to:
• Agree and deliver a body of work, organised into programmes, projects and workstreams to agreed time, cost, quality, risk and benefit profiles
• Proactively analyse variances against plan to assess trends threatening agreed scope, time, cost, and quality commitments. Identify signs that a project may be at risk and take appropriate action; 
• Engage internal and external stakeholders such as users, customers or suppliers to fully benefit from the delivered products, services and changes;
• Develop and execute appropriate change and engagement plans to achieve necessary behaviour changes in order to maximise benefits;
• Align expectations and ensure that the decision-making of stakeholders happen in a timely and effective manner;  
• Mobilise and lead teams composed of a mixture of staff and suppliers across organisational boundaries and the natural team. Ensure they have the necessary skills, capacity and experience to achieve the required outcomes;
• Develop the skills of team members through coaching, delegation and providing stretching assignments;
• Understand, assess and embed the right delivery methodologies, considering project and business constraints;
• Assess programme risks as they are encountered and evaluate trade-offs between cost, time, quality, risk and ultimately benefit, continuously managing the business cases of constituent projects and workstreams;
• Ensure that all deliverables, whether software, hardware, processes, products or business change are fit for purpose, meet all relevant requirements and are effectively transitioned to support and business-as-usual; and 
• Ensure that the business value intended by the work is explicit, agreed and delivered. 
Dimensions & Accountabilities:  • Plan, execute, monitor, control, and close all aspects of the project lifecycle adhering to the Project Delivery Framework (PDF) methodology and other standards at a scale of up to $2M, with up to 20 team members;
• Quickly build and leverage relationships with sponsors (JG1 and above), the Programme Manager (JG2 and above) and key stakeholders and understand their priorities.  Resolve conflict and deliver tough messages with grace to the Decision Review Board;
• Agree and build an agreed list of deliverables as defined by the Decision Review Board or Programme Manager, keeping to the time, cost and quality parameters set;
• Motivate and lead the project or workstream team through periods of uncertainty, while understanding and reporting barriers so that the team can complete its objectives while managing pressure;
• Create and deliver relevant and impactful communications for project or workstream stakeholders;
• Support the project team to remain resilient after setbacks and to recover performance;
• Manage and report risks at a project level to make timely recommendations that will maximize value;
• Understand changes necessary to balance execution efficiency with risk mitigation, value delivery, cost, quality and benefits;   
• Understand programme or project goals and business context at all stages of the lifecycle, and particularly when responding to challenges and change.  Recommend acceptable courses of action where appropriate;
• Execute the chosen methodology for the project or workstream to maximise delivery effectiveness;
• Execute the required governance approach defined by the Decision Review Board or Programme Manager; and
• Support programme leadership or the natural team to enable the project team to collaborate effectively with business IT, the impacted businesses, wider stakeholders both internally and externally, resolving issues such as financing, risk, resourcing, integrated planning and long-term management of any resulting products and services where appropriate.Skills & Requirements: 
• Typical Experience:  5+ years in IT with 3+ years of experience in managing projects through the entire lifecycle (start up to close down);
• Typical Programme Complexity:  Projects with multiple workstreams and deliverables, impacting a collection of business processes or teams, with business and technical change.  Impacts a single function or team; 
• Typical Programme Size: Up to 20 people;
• Typical Programme Budget: $2M+;
• Typical Job Grade of Supervisor/Manager:  JG2 or higher;
• Degree educated with evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning; and
• Attained, or working towards PMP® certification and agile certification.