Project Manager

Our Company

We exist to bring amazing people together to explore the art of possible.

Bailey Abbott are a progressive and dynamic IT Consultancy business working across both Public and Private sectors. People are at the core of everything we do. We’re all about nurturing and inspiring people - ours and our clients. We bring a positive attitude and mindset to everything we do. We confidently use our knowledge and skills to solve problems, finding a better and easier way forward.

We deliver transformational outcomes to take businesses further, fearlessly. Confidence and trust is fundamental to delivering superior outcomes and we take ownership and responsibility for our commitments.

Our People

Our staff are creative, collaborative, and passionate. We’re strong advocates for change, challenging the status quo through new thinking, technology, and practices. Always exploring creative ways to simplify complexity.

About the Role

Our Darwin based client is looking for a Project Manager for an initial 6 month role. You will provide leadership, coordination, and direction for the delivery of assigned projects. This role manages and supports project teams, providing expert advice to ensure successful outcomes aligned with our client’s objectives. It requires a strong focus on planning, delivery, implementation, and adoption, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and to agreed quality standards.

Key responsibilities

• Provide high-level leadership, coordination, and oversight for the delivery of in-scope project deliverables.
• Drive adoption and integration of new systems, tools, equipment, processes, or ways of working into frontline and operational environments, ensuring changes are practical, usable, and accepted by staff.
• Steer business readiness to adopt the outputs from project deliverables.
• Coordinate internal and external communications to inform diverse stakeholder groups of project objectives and progress status.
• Apply appropriate project management methodologies to ensure strong planning, control, and delivery.
• Manage a detailed schedule with critical path.
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions and constraints with a focus on governance, probity, and alignment to policing and organisational objectives.
• Monitor and report on outcomes to ensure benefits are realised and sustained.
• Lead change management, training, and communication initiatives to embed new capabilities and support user adoption.
• Analyse operational, legislative, or regulatory requirements relevant to the project environment.
• Provide advice to senior management on progress, risks, and performance.
• Contribute to other Digital Transformation Program projects or initiatives as required, ensuring consistency of delivery across the broader portfolio.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience leading teams or delivering projects involving organisational, operational, or technology-enabled change.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, coordinate, and manage people and resources to achieve defined outcomes in complex or high-risk environments.
• Strong knowledge of planning, coordination, risk, and governance disciplines, supported by experience managing projects, complex operations, critical incidents, or organisational change to achieve defined outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to balance delivery with adoption, ensuring outcomes are successfully implemented and integrated into operations.
• Experience leading or supporting change management, training, and user engagement to enable organisational transformation.
• High-level interpersonal, negotiation, and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Experience identifying and analysing operational, legislative, and/or regulatory requirements relevant to the project environment.
• Demonstrated abilities to manage a project to achieves it deliverables within an organisation with changing operational priorities.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience working within a large, complex, or high-profile project environment.
• Familiarity with policing, public safety, or government operations.
• Understanding of IT Service Management or digital transformation frameworks.
• Familiarity with technical concepts such as system design, integration, or data interfaces.
• Proficiency in standard project and collaboration tools (for example, Microsoft 365, Teams, Jira or similar), with the ability to quickly learn new digital platforms and systems.

Location of work - Darwin (hybrid arrangements may be considered for the right applicant)

Clearance Requirements - National Police Clearance required, PF166 required.

Our clients are diverse and so are we. We engage with great talent from all walks of life to bring their extensive and varied experience to help promote innovation. We encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds to further strengthen Bailey Abbott.

Bailey Abbott. Explore Possible.