Senior Project Officer

Cleared Recruitment are seeking multiple Project Officers to work across a number of high priority projects within a NIC Agency.

Location: Canberra (Flexible work arrangements are supported)
Contract Duration: 12-months with 2 x 12-month extensions
Clearance Required: NV1
Start Date: December 2025
Job Closing Date: Friday 26th September 2025

The agency has multiple requirements for Project Officers to provide diverse administrative and IT related project support tasks for the delivery of inflight and upcoming programs and projects across all areas of the agency.

Experience & Skills:

• A minimum of 5 years Project Officer experience.
• Experience working within a small to medium sized Federal Government agency.
• Work with project teams to administer and coordinate a range of program/project activities including the production, delivery and management of project schedules, budgets, reporting requirements, delivery of project artefacts, and identification and resolution of issues.
• Act as the point of contact for stakeholders, displaying high level interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships and liaise effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Identify and manage project changes in accordance with established processes and standards.
• Use, adapt, and work across various delivery methodologies (Prince2, MSP, Agile, SAFe, Hybrid).
• Manage several projects, priorities, and tasks as delegated.
• Understanding of Commonwealth Procurement Rules
• Experience coordinating end-to-end Federal Government procurement activities
• Display resilience and flexibility to deal with ambiguity and conflicting priorities to successfully deliver under pressure within a challenging environment.
• Provide Secretariat support for Working Groups and Steering Committees.
• Perform any other reasonable duties as directed by the Project Manager and/or Enterprise Portfolio Management Office.
• Experience working on projects within an Intelligence space is beneficial.

Essential Criteria:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience working on ICT projects, providing support in administering and coordinating a range of program/project activities
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to work with established project and program priorities, frameworks, and methodologies to deliver quality outcomes
• Provide a range of administrative and project/program support services to facilitate the delivery of outcomes within the team/project/branch, including secretariat services
• Experience in standard suite of Microsoft Office applications including Microsoft Teams and SharePoint.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience with Agile project delivery and tools. Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or Scrum Master experience and qualifications
• Experience working in a small to medium sized Federal Government agency.
• Experience within an Intelligence agency.

If you are an experienced Project Officer looking for your next contract within the federal government, apply today!

At Cleared Recruitment, we provide tailored recruitment solutions to individuals with a background in ICT, Engineering, Cyber and Project Services, who are seeking their next opportunity within Defence Industry, Federal Government, Intelligence and National Security.

To view all our current openings, please visit www.clearedrecruitment.com.au/jobs