Careers at TAFE NSW

TAFE NSW Life-Changing Careers

Portfolio Reporting Lead

Location Negotiable across NSW (subject to campus availability)

Permanent Full-time 

Total Remuneration Package $185,836.76 (Package includes $163,687.00 base salary p.a plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading)

At TAFE NSW, we are dedicated to life-changing impact.

That’s why we offer world-class training and education that delivers the skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow.

Life-changing impact starts with an incredible team that sees their career as an opportunity to transform someone’s world. Whether that’s inspiring students, supporting each other, or helping our communities and industries flourish. 

We live by TAFE NSW values: Customer Focus, Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence. They define who we are, how we work and inspire our performance.   

We invest in our people

At TAFE NSW, you will discover a diverse, dynamic, and collaborative environment, where you can innovate, create value, and do meaningful work.

We provide you with tools and ongoing training and professional development, health and wellbeing programs, and depending on your role, a 35-hour working week with a variety of flexible working options.

About the role

As the Portfolio Reporting Lead within Portfolio Governance and Monitoring Services (PGMS), you will shape how TAFE NSW understands, communicates, and makes decisions about its diverse and complex $200 million plus project portfolio. 

This senior role combines strategic influence with hands-on delivery, turning complex data into clear and meaningful insights that inform executive decision-making and drive organisational maturity. You will deliver strategic, thematic and performance analysis across the portfolio, transforming data into insightful and coherent narratives that support evidence-based decisions and improve portfolio maturity. 

Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will translate their needs into purposeful data and reporting solutions. Your ability to interpret context, connect information, and tell a clear story will be key to supporting effective governance and confident decision-making. With a pragmatic and forward-looking approach, you will strengthen capability and consistency across portfolio reporting, enhancing visibility of performance and value across the enterprise. 

About You 

You are an experienced portfolio reporting professional who can turn data into insight and insight into influence. Equally comfortable operating at both the strategic and operational levels, you shape executive understanding of performance trends while ensuring reporting remains accurate, consistent, and meaningful.

With strong analytical capability, curiosity, and sound judgement, you take time to understand the intent behind stakeholder requests, and the underlying questions decision-makers are trying to answer. Your work is grounded in data integrity and elevated through the ability to connect information and communicate findings through clear, compelling narratives.

As a trusted collaborator, you bring clarity to complex discussions and foster confidence in the data and the story it tells. You value consistency and continuous improvement, and you are motivated by helping others see the bigger picture behind the numbers.

To find out more about the role, click to view the  Role Description.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

We are committed to creating a culturally safe and accessible workplace where dignity, trust, respect, and the promotion of diversity and inclusion are valued, so you can safely bring your whole self to work and connect with your community through our many diverse employee networks.

If you require an adjustment in the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Advisor listed below.

A career of life-changing impact awaits you. Apply now!

Applications close 11.55pm AEDT Sunday 9 November 2025

To apply for this role, click on 'apply now' and provide:

• Your current resume
• Covering letter (1-page) highlighting your alignment to the position description.
• Response to one targeted question when prompted in the application form (300 words max.)

Targeted Question: Describe a time when you used data to identify a recurring issue or theme across projects or portfolios and transformed that insight into a clear narrative that influenced executive understanding or action.

General recruitment and adjustment enquiries: contact Shay El-ardenli, Talent Acquisition Advisor, via email shayma.elardenli@tafensw.edu.au, and 02 7921 0896.   

Role-specific enquiries: Matt Wagner, Associate Director - Project Governance and Monitoring Services, matt.wagner@tafensw.edu.au

For helpful insights into preparing your application, TAFE NSW’s recruitment process, and getting interview ready, read through our Application Process and the interactive Capability Application Tool.  

This is a child-related position. A Working with Children Check is a prerequisite for anyone in child-related work. It involves a national criminal history check and review of findings of workplace misconduct. 

To be eligible for positions at TAFE NSW, you need to be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Australia or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand passport.

A Talent Pool, valid for 18 months, may be created for this position, and position(s) of the same classification that subsequently becomes vacant, may be filled via this recruitment.

Location is negotiable across our TAFE NSW campuses. Please note your preferred campus location is not guaranteed and is subject to campus availability at the time of offer. 

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