Full Time Permanent Position
Band 8 - Salary Range $127,546 to $142,788 per annum + 12% Super + ADO
Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.
Why join Melton City Council?
Melton City Council is proud to serve one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most diverse communities. We are a forward-thinking local government committed to creating a city where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered.
As a Council, we are driven by innovation, inclusion, and excellence. We deliver high-quality services and infrastructure, promote lifelong learning, and champion health and wellbeing across our municipality. Our team plays a vital role in shaping a vibrant, sustainable future for our residents.
Working with us means being part of a collaborative and inclusive culture that values your growth. We offer:
- Professional and personal development opportunities
- Generous leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements
- A dynamic workplace close to home, surrounded by heritage charm, green spaces, and modern amenities
Join us and help build a city that thrives—where your work makes a real difference every day.
The Opportunity
The Senior ePMO Analyst plays a critical role within the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (ePMO), supporting the effective governance, management and delivery of the organisation’s project and portfolio investments. The role is responsible for promoting and embedding ePMO governance practices across the organisation in alignment with the Project Management Framework (PMF), ensuring projects and programs are delivered with transparency, consistency and strategic alignment.
Acting as a trusted advisor, the Senior ePMO Analyst partners with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to provide portfolio management expertise, governance support, performance insights and assurance activities that enable informed decision-making and successful delivery outcomes. This includes championing the effective use of the PMF toolkit, providing education and guidance to project teams and stakeholders, and delivering assurance activities that enhance project health, delivery confidence and benefits realisation.
As a key member of the ePMO, the Senior ePMO Analyst drives the uplift of portfolio management maturity, fosters a culture of continuous improvement, and supports the development of governance capabilities, standards and processes that enable successful delivery of strategic objectives across the enterprise. The Senior Portfolio Analyst reports to the ePMO Lead and operates as a senior member of the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (ePMO).
Key Responsibilities
- Support the planning, governance, monitoring and reporting of Melton City Council’s ePMO, ensuring alignment with the Council and Wellbeing Plan 2021–2025 and strategic objectives.
- Promote and support adherence to the PMF, driving consistent project governance and continuous improvement across Council.
- Provide governance advice and support to the Executive Leadership Team, Project Sponsors and Project Managers throughout the project lifecycle, including Stage Gate Reviews and assurance activities.
- Guide Project Managers in managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, change management and benefits realisation.
- Support portfolio planning, initiative prioritisation and portfolio development to ensure resources and investments are aligned with organisational priorities.
- Monitor, analyse and report on the performance and health of Council’s portfolio of programs and projects, identifying risks, trends and opportunities for improvement.
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About you
To be successful in this role you will have the following:
- Tertiary education with relevant degree and combination of relevant further formal qualifications, alternatively lesser formal qualifications together with extensive and diverse experience in project management.
- Demonstrated experience in project and portfolio management, including the development and implementation of frameworks, methodologies, governance practices and assurance processes.
- Practical experience supporting and delivering projects using both traditional waterfall and agile delivery approaches.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical and decision-making skills, with the ability to exercise sound judgment and provide practical solutions in complex environments.
- A proactive, customer-focused mindset, with a commitment to achieving high-quality outcomes and driving continuous improvement.
Culture and Values
Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.
We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:
- Motivate
- Empower
- Lead
- Trust
- Open
- Nurture
Benefits
There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council:
Staff Benefits | Melton City Council
- 13 ADO's (Accrued Day Off) per year*
- 5 weeks annual leave*
- Genuine Flexible work options
- Additional $500 per annum pro rata superannuation for female employees over the age of 45
- Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
- Access to the Local Government Employee Health Plan (GMHBA) with exclusive benefits
- 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave)*
- 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave*
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Eligible for Full Time positions or for Fixed term positions eligible after 12 months of employment.
How To Apply
If you require further information about the position, please contact Aglaia Nikas, ePMO Lead on 5449 0093.
Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise.
To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.
All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any public health orders applicable to local government.
We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.
Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.
Applications close 11:59pm Thursday 30 July 2026
