Classification: Senior Officer Grade A
Salary: $172,246 plus superannuation
Position No: 71510
Directorate: Digital Canberra
Advertised (Gazettal date): 15 June 2026
Contact Officer: Candice Zhou on [email protected] or (02) 6207 7473
Details: Do you want to enrich your community by providing digital government services that are so easy, they just happen? That’s what Digital Canberra is here to do. We deliver and support digital government services that are easy to access, save time, and are safe to use. Join Digital Canberra and help deliver smart, secure, and seamless digital services that improve the people that live and work in our beautiful city and surrounding area.
At Digital Canberra, you’ll work with passionate technologists, policy experts, and designers to build and sustain services that matter. We value curiosity, collaboration, and creativity, and we’re committed to helping you grow.
Digital Canberra is seeking a dynamic and experienced Project Governance Manager to provide the key leadership within Digital Canberra Initiative Delivery, responsible for driving the effective operation and continuous maturity of project governance functions. Under broad direction, this role leads capacity management and project support services, ensuring the successful delivery of complex, strategic initiatives aligned to organisational priorities. This role is pivotal in driving digital transformation across the ACT Government, working within a multi-disciplinary environment to deliver innovative, customer-focused solutions. You’ll manage small to mid-sized team, ensuring alignment with delivery frameworks and stakeholder expectations. With hybrid working arrangements based in Gungahlin and flexibility to work from customer sites or home, this position offers a collaborative and inclusive workplace culture that values respect, integrity, and innovation.
We’re looking for a proactive leader with strong project governance and quality assurance expertise in areas such as COTS implementation, ICT infrastructure, software development, or business improvement. Ideal candidates will hold relevant qualifications or certifications (e.g., PRINCE2, AgilePM, ScrumMaster) and demonstrate exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication, and analytical skills. If you’re passionate about delivering high-quality Project Governance services to support the delivery of digital initiatives that improve public services and want to be part of a forward-thinking team shaping Canberra’s digital future, we encourage you to apply.
Refer to the position description for further information about this role. You may wish to speak to the listed Contact Officer if you have any queries once you have reviewed the position description.
What we offer you
At Digital Canberra, we offer a rewarding government career that has a direct, positive impact on the Canberra community. You may be strategic, helping us lead technology investment decisions to build a genuinely connected Canberra. Or you may enjoy the hands-on satisfaction of working with the latest technology to keep our hospitals, schools, and government running. At Digital Canberra, you will make a difference!
As part of the ACT Public Service (ACTPS), Digital Canberra offers some of the best hybrid and flexible working arrangements in Australia. Flexible working in the ACTPS means we provide the opportunity to work remotely (from home) or from a choice of office locations around Canberra, although the exact arrangements will be discussed with your hiring manager, based on operational needs.
Eligibility/Other requirements: Tertiary level qualifications and/or certification in Project Management are highly desirable. These include one or more of: Diploma of Project Management, PRINCE2 Foundation, PRINCE2 Agile Foundation, Agile Project Management (AgilePM) Foundation, Certified ScrumMaster.
Note: This is a temporary position available immediately for up to 12 months with the possibility of permanency.
A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.
This position is based at a workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk.
As part of the ACTPS, this role has access to a range of flexible working provisions including hybrid work arrangement primarily based in the Gungahlin office (Winyu House), customer sites, and/or home. The occupant of the role is expected to work in the Gungahlin office a minimum of 2 days per week. ACTPS staff also have access to a range of FlexiSpace office locations across Canberra.
How to Apply: Submit a copy of your curriculum vitae and a two-page pitch that addresses the “What You Require” section of the Position Description to address Professional / Technical Skills and Knowledge and Behavioural Capabilities.
Applications should be submitted .
Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.
Where an offer of employment is for a fixed-term period, any related temporary contracts within the Territory will be issued in compliance with the requirements and applicable exceptions outlined in the Fair Work Act.
The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.
This is a temporary position available immediately for up to 12 months with the possibility of permanency.
