Senior Program Manager

• Hybrid work environment

• Based at our Bella Vista office

• Max term salaried contract until September 2026

The Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across the CoreMod department. This role is critical in driving operational excellence, managing large-scale infrastructure and network projects, and ensuring optimal vendor performance.

The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in testing, procurement, and people leadership, with a strong focus on simplification, automation, security, and obsolescence management. ​

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Program Leadership Collaborate with senior leadership across CoreMod and the broader RBA to define, prioritise, and deliver strategic initiatives. Translate organisational goals into actionable project roadmaps, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives.

• End-to-End Project Delivery Lead large-scale, multi-stakeholder projects from initiation through to delivery, ensuring scope, schedule, and budget adherence. Apply best-practice project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid) to ensure successful outcomes.

• Operational Excellence & Performance Management Identify and resolve inefficiencies in business processes to enhance team productivity and service delivery. Define, track, and report on departmental and vendor KPIs to ensure continuous improvement and accountability.

• Vendor & Contract Management Lead large-scale procurement activities including RFQs, RFTs, and RFPs, ensuring alignment with strategic and financial objectives. Build and maintain strategic vendor relationships, ensuring performance aligns with contractual obligations and business needs.

• People Leadership & Inclusive Team Management Lead and manage large, diverse teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation.

• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication Collaborate and influence effectively across the Reserve Bank and with external partners. Develop and implement communication strategies to ensure transparency, alignment, and stakeholder buy-in at all levels.

• Financial Oversight & Risk Management Monitor project budgets, vendor invoicing, and cost controls to prevent leakage and ensure financial alignment. Proactively identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring business continuity and delivery resilience.

• Technology & Data-Driven Decision-Making Leverage project management tools, procurement systems, and data analytics platforms to drive informed decision-making and performance tracking.

About You

This role requires extensive Infrastructure and Network understanding, and we are ideally seeking candidates who have worked on infrastructure or network related projects of significant scale and complexity. Please only apply if your previous experience entails working on large and complex programs exceeding $50 million. 

• Significant experience in a similar role

• Strategic planning and execution

• Advanced project and program management

• Infrastructure and network testing leadership

• Inclusive leadership and large team management

• Vendor and contract management (RFQ, RFT, RFP)

• Financial and risk management

• Stakeholder engagement and interpersonal influence

• Analytical thinking and problem-solving

Technical Capabilities

• Proven senior-level leadership skills and a track record of leading large delivery teams

• Demonstrated strong networking capability with experience in building influential networks to support project outcomes

• Strong project management capabilities

• Technological proficiency in PM and procurement tools (e.g., MS Project, Jira, SAP, Power BI)

Be More
Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
Why RBA?
The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.

Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve.

We encourage intelligent inquiry, and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward.

Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

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