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Job Description
- Key leadership role within CNs Project Management Office
- Support and develop your team to enhance their performance and drive long term success
- Permanent full-time role 35 hours per week
City of Newcastle (CN) is looking for a capable people leader to join as our Manager Portfolios to lead the Program Management team and its associated project program and portfolio controls functions within the Project Management Office.
The Project Management Office is a service provider which exists to optimise infrastructure investment and project delivery for business areas (clients) across the organisation. Here your ideas and efforts directly shape the places where you and your community live work and play.
As the Manager Portfolios you will be pivotal in the effective integrated management of program and portfolio delivery planning prioritisation and project management services. This roles primary function is to lead the team to provide strategic direction motivation and guidance to support the organisation in the delivery of their respective portfolios and programs of work.
This role is key in building and maintaining a culture that proactively engages with internal and external stakeholders to provide advice guidance and recommendations to enable asset managers and other business areas to maximise their benefits and contribution to business needs and the Citys strategic objectives.
Find out more about your new career by viewing the position descriptionhere.
Life at City of Newcastle (CN)
Youll get to experience your work up close alongside the brilliant minds of your colleagues who care for one another and the region.
Youll chip away at ambitious plans with a talented passionate crew alongside you shaping the very fabric of our community. Showing up for neighbours not shareholders.
Every single day offers the chance to think big and act local. Planning and prioritising to achieve the most important outcomes with the community.
Youll add value in the moments that matter. From librarians to lifeguards in a range of iconic places we achieve a better Newcastle together.
Whether were planning to host the Matildas providing essential services or supporting creative artists its what we do when the cameras arent rolling that matters most.
And well be there for you in important times in your life. We embrace flexible work arrangements to find a balance that allows us to enjoy the city we shape.
Our focus on inclusion and respecting culture will help you feel a deeper connection with others. Youll connect with internal communities that will help you to feel a sense of belonging and reflect the diversity of the growing region.
Youll do meaningful work and do it sustainably as you take ideas from plan to play in your own backyard.
With hundreds of different roles each person adds their uniqueness to our culture and plays their part as we head towards our 2040 vision.
With natural assets and a focus on the environment co-create a sustainable region with us.
Why join CN
At CN we value our employees and their wellbeing takes priority. We encourage employees to make time for whats important and provide the benefits to enable a work life balance that allow us to enjoy the city we shape. To read more visithere.
- 35-hour working week with flexible work arrangements available
- 4 weeks of annual leave 3 weeks of personal leave plus 2 additional paid public holidays
- 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment
- Paid parental leave for primary carers
- Industry leading employment conditions
- Corporate Fitness program from as little as $12.90 per fortnight
- Access to a range of exclusive CN employee benefits programs including Novated Lease options as well as access to reward and recognition vouchers
- Annual performance development plans and ongoing training and development opportunities
- Leading the CN Way leadership program
- Inclusion Diversity & Equity (IDE) employee networks and initiatives
- Access to Health & Wellbeing programs including an Onsite Physiotherapist Yoga and Mental Health Ambassador Groups
We champion inclusion so that everyone is valued and we encourage innovation and creativity. We are committed to creating a safe and inclusive workplace where different styles backgrounds experiences and perspectives are valued encouraged and respected.
People with diverse lived experiences (including but not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians people with diverse gender identities and sexualities people from different cultural racial ethnic religious and linguistic backgrounds people with disability carers and veterans) are encouraged to apply.
Dont just work for the city co-create it. Join and expand your career at the City of Newcastle.
Application Closing Date: Thursday 12 June 2025
Remuneration: $138801.63 17.5% annual leave loading yearly payment 12% Superannuation per annum for a 35-hour week
Contact:Matthew Blandford - Acting Executive Manager Project Management Office -or
If you need any adjustments to be made to the recruitment process or if you would like to discuss any accessibility requirements please contact for a confidential discussion.
You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.
CN do not accept unsolicited resumes and we respectfully ask that recruitment agencies do not contact us at this stage.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
