Your new company
South Australia Police (SAPOL) delivers a wide range of services across more than 100 locations statewide, operating 24/7 to ensure community safety by reducing crime and disorder. As a large, complex, and publicly accountable organisation, SAPOL is guided by the values of Service, Integrity, Courage, Leadership, Collaboration, and Respect, with a vision of creating Safer Communities.
Program Delivery oversees a broad portfolio of projects, ensuring successful outcomes through effective governance of quality, risk, and budget. This includes major initiatives in infrastructure, business systems, and digital transformation, divided into three sub-portfolios.
The Mobility Portfolio, where this role is based, leads two key programs:
1) Mobile Workforce Program (MWP) – equipping frontline staff with mobile devices for operational efficiency.
2) Digital Workforce Program – which will rollout digital innovation across SAPOL.
Together, these programs represent an enterprise multi-year technology transformation program that will usher in SAPOL’s future workplace and deliver IT solutions for next generation policing.
Your new role
The Mobility Portfolio Manager will be responsible for the analysis, development and implementation of a range of project and program outcomes while adhering to policy and best practice to support the Portfolio’s business needs. The incumbent will work under broad direction, provide leadership, and contribute to project outcomes, to achieve Portfolio priorities. This role will work with the leadership team in the day-to-day running of the Portfolio and work closely with and under the broad direction of the Mobility Portfolio Director. Working with a portfolio team of 60 professionals, the role will build strong relationships with SAPOL project sponsors, business subject-matter experts and suppliers.
What you'll need to succeed
- Highly developed communication, interpersonal, negotiation, stakeholder management, engagement and relationships skills, including the ability to work with people at all levels, partner with and influence project managers and executives and produce written reports of a high quality.
- Strong knowledge and experience in digital transformation delivery, stakeholder consultation and analysis, financial and resource administration practices, and processes as they pertain to projects, programs, and portfolio, particularly within a government context.
- Well-developed analytical, strategic and conceptual thinking skills and demonstrated ability to gather and interpret information, analyse complex business issues systematically, understand them and present options and solutions.
- Experience in leading multi-year, enterprise-wide digital transformation programs, managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills – a credible leader, team builder, mentor, and strong communicator who thrives in a cross-functional environment and is self-motivated and can work in a complex landscape.
- Proven record of successful implementation of complex projects and programs with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, conflicting priorities and delivery of concurrent outcomes
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call John Brake now on 0872214151.
