Program Manager - EDO

Program Manager - EDO

Job no: 539129
Work type: Full Time
Location: Sydney, NSW
Categories: Project Management

• 2 x roles available 1 x Continuing and 1 x Fixed Term 12 months
• Employment Type: Full Time
• Remuneration: Competitive Remuneration Package
• Location: Kensington, NSW

About UNSW

At UNSW, we pride ourselves on being a workplace where the best people come to do their best work. We aspire to be Australia’s global university, improving and transforming lives through excellence in research, outstanding education and a commitment to advancing a just society.

Why your role matters

As the Program Manager – EDO you will ensure strategic alignment coordination, and delivery of complex data transformation initiatives across UNSW. You will define data programs that enable UNSW’s strategic objectives in data governance, data quality, analytics enablement, and modern data platforms.

Skills and Experience

This role will suit an experienced transformation leader with a strong track record delivering large-scale, complex programs across data, digital, or technology environments. You bring deep expertise in program delivery methodologies and enterprise solutions such as ERP, HCM, and Service Management, alongside experience driving business and operating model transformation. More specifically you must have:

• Extensive, demonstrable and recent experience leading large-scale, multi-stream programs, ideally within data, digital, or technology transformation environments in senior transformation leadership roles with direct C-suite reporting and proven success delivering high-value, enterprise-wide solutions in large organisations.
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline, combined with substantial professional experience, or equivalent capability gained through a mix of education, executive training, and hands-on program leadership.
• Proven expertise in program and project management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP, Agile).
• Deep expertise in ERP, HCM, Service Management solution design, business process transformation, operating model design, and lifecycle management, higher education or similarly federated sector experience is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated capability to establish, lead, and inspire high-performing, cross-functional teams spanning business, technology and partner domains.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to engage credibly with senior executives, governance committees, and diverse communities of interest.
• A proven ability to navigate complexity, manage dependencies, trade-offs, and risks across multiple streams under conditions of ambiguity and scrutiny.
• Significant experience managing major vendors and delivery partners, including systems integrators, to ensure performance accountability, scope discipline, and alignment with organisational outcomes.
• A comprehensive understanding of transformation delivery disciplines, including program governance, benefits realisation, user-centred design, and organisational change management, with the ability to apply these to achieve measurable adoption and value.
• Exceptional communication skills with a record of producing executive-level briefings, business cases, reports, and presentations that distil complex information into actionable insights

Benefits and Culture

People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world.

Our benefits include:

• Career development opportunities.
• 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments.
• Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period.
• Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness).

To Apply: If this is of interest to you, please submit your application online: CV, Cover Letter and responses to the Skills and Experience outlined in the position description.
Sponsorship is not available for this role, full Australian working rights are required on application.

Contact: Tai James - Talent Acquisition Consultant tai.james@unsw.edu.au

Please apply directly through the website, applications sent to the contact above will not be accepted.

Applications close: 11.55pm, Sunday 10 May 2026