Senior Project Manager - NV1 Cleared

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• Enjoy working in a culture that thrives on diversity and innovation
• Develop yourself professionally through internal and external training
• Work on government projects with focused on network and security

Verizon is a Fortune 500 company providing services to 99% Fortune 500 companies and Government Clients. Our services include advanced communications, networking, cloud computing, managed security, machine to machine and professional consulting.

A key business unit in Australia is our Government Security Operations Centre that operates out of Canberra. We are currently looking for a self-motivated, Professional Services candidate who is interested in the challenges of IT Security consulting with a particular focus on Project Management and process administration and implementation within a complex security infrastructure environment.

The successful candidate will have excellent Project Management ability, ideally coming from experience working within the Government sector and have solid experience in process development, administration and workflow management.

As a Professional Services Project Management Consultant, your main responsibilities will involve a solid understanding and ability to deliver the following:

• To act as expert consultant in the management of projects, including the functions of scope management, budget and cost management, quality control of deliverables, schedule, resource and communication management and competent risk and issue management
• Management of several projects at once, multi-tasking and managing your own time as well as project resources, according to project and customer requirements
• Develop detailed project schedules from high level, presales estimates
• Lead engineering resources assigned to project to ensure project outcomes are meet to schedule and in budget
• Develop client relationships through strong communication skills
• Work with Managed Services teams and ensure smooth transition and handover to operation support as part of implementation
• Manage complex implementation and testing activities in accordance with client maintenance/change windows.
• Adhere to and enforce Change Management procedures, drive creation and completion of successful changes
• Efficient project delivery in a fast paced organisation

To be considered, your skills and qualifications will include:

• Current Australian Federal Government security clearance at NV1 minimum (required)
• Industry certification such as PMP, Prince2, Agile and/or ITIL highly desirable
• Strong project experience on network and security infrastructure projects, in a structured project environment, delivering high complexity network and security infrastructure solutions.
• Demonstrate sound written and oral communications skills, be articulate in explanations, and communicate in a clear positive fashion with internal and external stakeholders, clients, and suppliers, covering highly complex solutions
• Understanding of the range of standards, guidelines, policies, and best practices affecting deployment of IT security technology
• Ability to collect and analyse requirements in order to develop project Statements of Work (SOW) and schedules including understanding of scope, costs, resource requirements, timeframes and inter-relating project management functions
• Demonstrate experience in developing and writing quality management plan, acceptance test plans and implementation strategies
• Understanding of ITIL processes.

Additional Qualifications (highly preferable):

• Bachelors’ degree, majoring in Computer Science, Electrical, Computer, Communications, or System Engineering, or related fields.
• Understanding of Australian Federal Government Security Management Framework and Policies
• Knowledge of networking / secure gateway infrastructure in relevant products (eg. Cisco, Palo Alto, F5) is desirable

Why Verizon?

As well as an attractive package, you can look forward to excellent prospects for career progression in our expanding business. We are a business that invests in its people. Verizon spends more than $275 million on employee training, development and tuition.

Our work culture and drive for diversity have earned us various awards, to name a few - “Top 50 Employers list” by Equal Opportunity Magazine, “Top companies for Executive Women” by the National Association for Female Executives and Training magazine’s “Hall of Fame”.

At Verizon we believe in embracing the diversity of our global workforce - our employees have different interests, experiences and skills that combine to foster an innovative and enriching culture.  We recognise the need to offer flexible and varied working solutions to enable our people to reach their potential and strike the right balance between personal and work life. We leverage our innovative technology and communication solutions to connect us on a global scale, enabling collaborative working.

If you are interested in discussing flexible hours, mobility and alternative working solutions, talk to us; we’ll do our best to accommodate you.