Project Manager

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• Proud of what we do - Our services are used by society's key players
• Working with health care customers
• Opportunity to work for a global company with ongoing growth plans

Project Manager / Mascot, Sydney

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About Us

Civica builds software and provides IT and digital transformation services to support some of the most important organisations in our communities; like schools, libraries, local councils and state agencies. We work with some of the largest health fund providers bringing their services into the digital age. Our products are market leaders, some of them are globally renowned.

Our team is proud to work within the sectors we do, where we make a real difference, contributing to the growth of the societies that we live in and accelerating the digital transformation of the public sector and associated markets. Want to join us and help continue our mission?

About The Role

The Project Manager’s main responsibility is to manage our end-to-end system development, implementation and internal R&D projects to ensure that they are completed efficiently on time, within budget and with excellent quality.

Responsibilities

• Progressively learn the Private Health Insurance (PHI) domain knowledge and acquire solid understanding of Civica Health Insurance Solutions in order to effectively manage projects
• Manage internal and external project meetings; distribute accurate meeting minutes
• Obtain project objectives from internal and external stakeholders and articulate the objectives to relevant team members
• Plan, Initiate, execute and finalise IT projects based on the methodologies used by Civica Health Solutions as well as industry best practices (e.g. Prince 2).
• Manage and control the project risk and quality.
• Proactively track project progress, identify dependencies and remove roadblocks.
• Apply an analytical approach to pre-empt and deal with issues with constructive solutions
• Motivate the project team to overcome obstacles and conquer the challenges under pressure
• Understand the common steps in IT projects, including system analysis, requirement gathering, system design, system development, system testing, deployment, as well as Agile/Waterfall development approaches.
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• Regular project reports, including SLA tracking.
• Release deployment scheduling and coordination.

About You

The Project Manager needs to an energised, self-motivated and fun person, with exceptional written and verbal communication skills, strong attention to detail and accuracy in documentation. Furthermore, the successful applicant will have good time management skills, experience working with deadlines and in a fast pace environment.

Other skills needed for this position includes:

• More than 6 years’ previous experience in software development, with at least 3 years’ in systems specification and design, preferably in an IT solution vendor’s environment.
• Recent successful experience as a Project Manager in large software project implementation in enterprise environment
• A computer science or related discipline.
• Advanced skills in one or more of the major programming languages, and in the evaluation of hardware and software options.
• Good understanding of the current IT systems environment and development paths.
• Project planning and specification skills, together with problem solving and analysis abilities. The latter is usually based on specific industry knowledge (Banking, Insurance, etc.) and considerable User liaison.
• Strong technical and business documentation skills.
• Preferably, knowledge of the Private Health Insurance (PHI) industry.

Your Benefits

At Civica we believe our people are our biggest asset and we pride ourselves on cultivating a supportive and modern working environment; whilst providing you with the tools you need to get the job done. We will offer what you would expect in today’s modern work environments:

• Join a growing and successful business
• Genuine career development
• Flexible working conditions
• We are big on sharing celebratory moments, and they often involve cake! (We do gluten free options) – Friday Happy Hour is also a thing

What Next?

Do we sound like a good match? If so then we would love to hear from you! Please include a cover letter outlining how your experience, aspirations and values are a match, along with your resume and we will take it from there.

Civica is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.