• Believe: We believe in the power of sport and the Australian spirit. Together, they unlock our limitless potential, grit, and heart to go further than we ever imagined.

• Belong: Everyone is welcome at our Games. Every person is celebrated, creating a playing field that’s fair, fun, and full of connection!

• Become: This is our moment. Our move. Together, we’ll harness the magic of the Games to become stronger and step boldly into an exciting new era.

As an ambitious and inclusive organisation - Brisbane 2032 offers a rare opportunity to contribute to the world's largest sporting event, the world's largest multicultural event, and the world's largest event for people with disability. It is a chance to showcase to the world what Australia has to offer. It is also a chance to celebrate the world’s oldest continuing living culture, Australia’s First Nations peoples, and to promote and further the cause of accessibility and opportunity for all.

As part of this application process, we encourage you to share your motivation to join the Olympic and Paralympic Games. We highly value diverse perspectives and invite you to share your lived experience if you are of First Nations heritage or a person living with disability.

About the Role

Reporting to the Director of Sport within the Sport and Athlete Functional Area, the Sports Programme Management Officer supports the effective planning, coordination, monitoring, and reporting of activities across the division. To achieve this, the role provides essential administrative and programme management support, ensuring that all milestones, deliverables, actions, risks, and dependencies are accurately captured, tracked, and reported.

The Programme Management Officer maintains schedules, coordinates reporting inputs, monitors progress against key deadlines and supports governance activities to ensure information is current, reliable and available to support decision-making. The role assists in identifying emerging issues, tracking follow-up actions and promoting consistent programme management practices across the Sport Programme and broader Sport and Athlete Division.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate the development, maintenance and monitoring of the Sport Programme integrated schedule, ensuring key milestones, activities and deliverables are planned, tracked and reported.
• Support sport programme leads to establish clear work plans, timelines, dependencies, and reporting requirements, while monitoring progress against agreed milestones to proactively identify emerging schedule risks, delays, and conflicts.
• Maintain a consolidated view of Sport Programme activities, milestones, and deliverables to accurately track and report progress, while identifying and facilitating appropriate follow-up on overdue actions, emerging issues, and delivery risks.
• Work with sports team to develop mitigation plans where milestones or deliverables are at risk.
• Maintain reporting frameworks, dashboards, and status updates to consolidate information from multiple workstreams, providing comprehensive visibility of Sport Programme progress for executive, governance, and programme reporting.
• Identify and monitor dependencies across sport workstreams, projects, and functional areas to support the coordination of shared deliverables, while maintaining comprehensive registers for actions, milestones, decisions, assumptions, risks, and dependencies.
• Coordinate governance meetings, planning workshops, and programme reviews, including the preparation of associated briefing materials and presentations, while tracking resulting actions and decisions through to completion.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of planning, reporting and programme management processes.

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate programme activities across multiple workstreams while maintaining visibility of priorities, deadlines and outcomes,
• Experience applying structured planning and scheduling approaches to manage activities, milestones and dependencies.
• Maintains accurate programme information and identifies impacts arising from changes in priorities or timelines.
• Develops meaningful reporting and performance measures that support oversight and decision making.
• Able to translate complex information into clear, concise and actionable insights.
• Experience with governance practices to support accountability, transparency and effective decision making.
• Experience in information management and strong skills in Microsoft Suite
• Identifies potential delivery risks and issues early and supports effective mitigation and resolution strategies.
• Strong communication skills and capable of communicating with people at all levels
• Demonstrates strong organisational skills, attention to detail, accountability, and initiative to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

To Apply

If you are a passionate and experienced Programme Management Officer, looking for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to contribute to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we encourage you to apply.

For questions relating to this this role, please email brisbane2032@randstad.com.au

Please apply with your updated resume and a 1-2 page suitability statement (as a combined document) highlighting your experience in relation to the required skills and your own lived experience which is relevant to this opportunity. To send your application, please click "Apply Now" or follow the prompts provided. Applications close on 30th November at 4pm.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

We are committed to ensuring our application and recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations to help you perform at your best, please let us know.

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and culturally and linguistically diverse people to apply.