Project Manager

Closes: 25 June 2026

Classification: Senior Officer Grade C

Salary: $127,597 - $136,873 plus superannuation

Position No: 37547

Directorate: Digital Canberra

Advertised (Gazettal date): 10 June 2026

Contact Officer: Mithun Alexander on ***email_hidden*** or (02) 6207 4679

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 Manager to lead the delivery of ICT projects within the Initiative Delivery team. 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 projects concurrently, 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 management 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 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.

Canberra is Australia’s capital – a welcoming, unique city with a quality of life that many cities aspire to. It’s the perfect place to raise children, take advantage of world-class cultural institutions, and enjoy the great outdoors. Canberra is primed for technology evolution. As a young and growing city, the shape of our community and our digital government services will continue to change.

Just like our city, Digital Canberra is inclusive. Our work spans many technology disciplines, and our workforce is culturally and linguistically diverse. We welcome candidates who have the right to work in Australia, which may include temporary and permanent visa holders (subject to your visa conditions and security clearance restrictions).

Ready to make a difference? Apply now and help shape Canberra’s digital future!

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.

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.

Notes: This is a temporary position available from July 2026 for a period up to 24 months with the possibility of extension and/or 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 pitch that addresses the “What You Require” section of the Position Description.

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.

Digital Canberra

Digital Canberra was established on the 1 July 2025, amalgamating positions which previously were advertised under Chief Ministers and Economic Development Directorate and ACT Health Directorate.

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This is a temporary position available from July 2026 for a period up to 24 months with the possibility of extension and/or permanency.