Careers at TAFE NSW

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Project Manager

State-wide Opportunity (subject to TAFE NSW campus availability)

12 months Temporary Full-Time

$198,784 package includes base salary $176,043 per annum 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. 

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

The Project Manager position is responsible for leading the planning, organisation and control of significant complex projects and sub projects spanning the full continuum of initiation/design and implementation in relation to designated business strategies to meet project objectives, and enable TAFE NSW to achieve its strategic goals, business benefits and outcomes.

Day-to-day would involve risk/issue management, schedule management, project status reporting, reporting to the project control board, working with internal stakeholders and external stakeholders to ensure the execution of work required to meet the project objectives.

The successful candidate will bring strong business and technical acumen to develop and execute strategies for data centre rationalisation. This includes assessing the current infrastructure footprint, identifying opportunities to decommission, refactor, or migrate applications, and guiding platform teams in their transition to public cloud or managed data centres using industry best practices. Proven expertise in environment management, cloud migration planning, and optimisation, combined with the ability to collaborate effectively with platform teams, is essential to delivering successful outcomes. 

About You

You have prior experience managing a project through its life cycle to the end. You bring excellent communication skills and able to manage competing priorities and diverse stakeholders needs in an evolving operating environment through collaborative approach. You have strong analytical thinking along with demonstrated project management skills.

To be successful in this role, you will have:- 

1. Degree qualification in project management/ related field or equivalent significant experience.
2. Strong experience in all phases of project management from design to implementation and evaluation within a complex service delivery environment.
3. Significant record of achievement delivering complex business focused (non-technology based) projects to achieve business or operational related objectives.
4. Demonstrated high level stakeholder management skills to positively engage and collaborate on project activities.

Highly Regarded:

• Managed a project through its life cycle to the end (initiation to closure)
• Previous experience and technical skills on Data Centre/infrastructure migration projects to public cloud (Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud, etc).
• Commercial orientation with experience in cost benefits analysis, total cost of ownership (TCO) calculations, and developing business cases.

To find out more about the role, click to view the  Position 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 AEST Wednesday 3rd September 2025

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

• Your current resume
• Copies of your qualifications, where applicable (upload as one PDF file). Certified copies preferred; these will be required if successful for the role
• Response to two targeted questions when prompted in the application form (max 300 words each) 

Targeted Questions:

1. Please describe a project where you led the rationalisation of data centre infrastructure, including environments, servers, and/or databases. What strategies did you use to assess and reduce the IT footprint, and what were the outcomes?

2. Have you supported or led the migration of applications to public cloud (e.g. Azure, AWS, Oracle Cloud) or a managed data centre? Please outline your approach, key challenges you faced, and how you collaborated with product teams to deliver the migration.

Role-specific enquiries: contact Dawie Pienaar, Director Systems Group Delivery, via email dawie.pienaar@tafensw.edu.au  

General recruitment and adjustment enquiries: contact Talent Acquisition Advisor Shweta Yadav via email shweta.yadav@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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