infrastructure portfolio management officer

As the scale and complexity of demands on the organisation have grown, our client is undergoing a critical maturity uplift to enhance their governance, asset lifecycle management, and financial oversight. We are looking for a specialist to help embed best-practice portfolio and project management disciplines and foster continuous learning across their infrastructure delivery teams.

What You Will Do:
Working within the Portfolio Management Office, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening organisational capability and improving ways of working. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the design and implementation of project management frameworks, methodologies, templates, and guidance materials.

• Identifying opportunities to improve delivery processes, governance arrangements, and project management practices.

• Designing and delivering practical capability development initiatives, including training materials, workshops, communities of practice, and coaching resources.

• Coordinating lessons learned activities and promoting continuous knowledge sharing across multidisciplinary teams.

• Supporting portfolio assurance activities, such as health checks and maturity assessments, to ensure compliance and improve project quality.

• Providing specialist advice to project managers to strengthen planning, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and benefits realisation.

About You:
To be successful in this role, you will be a highly collaborative practitioner who enjoys working with diverse stakeholders to solve complex problems. You will also bring:

• Significant experience in portfolio/program management or project delivery within an infrastructure, capital works, or asset-intensive environment.

• Proven experience establishing or operating a capability uplift, improvement, or enablement function.

• Strong knowledge of contemporary project and portfolio methodologies (e.g., PMBOK, PRINCE2, MSP, P3M3).

• Demonstrated capability in designing and delivering training and coaching programs, with the confidence to facilitate workshops.

• A strong ability to analyse delivery challenges, evaluate information, identify trends, and develop fit-for-purpose recommendations.

• The ability to lead change, influence senior stakeholders, and embed new ways of working without formal authority.

Apply Now to drive transformational change within a massive infrastructure portfolio!
If you have any questions reach out to Natalie Coyne directly on 0497 597062 or natalie.coyne@randstad.com.au

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.

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