Senior Manager, Project Management Office

Location: Brisbane South (Nathan), Australia; hybrid on-campus and work-from-home options are available, with work potentially required across other hirify.global locations. Candidates must have full unrestricted Australian work rights.

Company

hirify.global is a multi-site university focused on research, academic excellence, and transformative education.

What you will do

• Lead the Corporate Services Project Management Office and establish governance, delivery standards, reporting, and accountability across the project portfolio.
• Support project planning, prioritisation, business cases, benefits analysis, approvals, and stage-gate reviews.
• Maintain an integrated portfolio roadmap covering schedules, resources, dependencies, risks, and decision points.
• Provide strategic advice and reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, executives, project sponsors, and governance forums.
• Deliver independent portfolio oversight, assurance, financial monitoring, risk management, change-readiness assessment, and benefits realisation.
• Improve PMO tools, methodologies, reporting frameworks, lessons learned, and project maturity across Corporate Services.

Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or an equivalent combination of qualifications and substantial senior leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience establishing, leading, and maturing a PMO or comparable project governance and assurance function in a complex organisation.
• Expertise in project governance frameworks, portfolio management, reporting, performance measurement, and assurance processes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, influencing, commercial, financial, and strategic skills.
• Experience overseeing investment decisions, resource allocation, budgets, benefits realisation, and portfolio prioritisation.
• Full unrestricted Australian work rights and ability to complete a National criminal history check are required.

Nice to have

• PRINCE2, MSP, PMBOK, Agile, SAFe, or equivalent project, program, or portfolio management certification.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Three-year fixed-term, full-time appointment.
• Mix of on-campus and work-from-home options with a supportive work environment.
• Learning and development opportunities, educational staff assistance, and internal mobility.
• Salary packaging, corporate health discounts, generous leave entitlements, and paid parental leave.
• Health, safety, and wellbeing initiatives including on-campus gym facilities.

Hiring process

• Submit an online application with a covering letter and current CV including full contact details.
• Applications close Sunday 18 October at 11:59pm.