Project Officer
Start Date: 1 July 2025
Length: 12 months + 2 x 12-month extensions
Location of work: ACT, QLD, SA, WA, VIC

We're looking for a Project Support Officer who loves keeping things organized, working with teams, engaging with stakeholders, managing finances, and helping projects run smoothly—all while making a real impact.
  
These activities will include:

• Team Accountability: Accountable to contribute to the development and maintenance of project, program and/or portfolio planning and performance processes in accordance with agreed procedures and performance standards.
• PMO Expertise: Assist with preparations for project test, evaluation and acceptance programs. Apply project management methodologies to administrative and technical activities. Research, draft and prepare briefs, correspondence and reports including submissions for committee consideration. Adjust project management methodologies to comply with legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks. Maintain project financial records under the direction of the Project Manager.
• Collaboration: Work collaboratively, operate as an effective team member and provide constructive feedback.
• Communication: Engage with relevant stakeholders and understand their expectations and concerns. Resolve problems using expertise, taking the initiative to identify alternative courses of action.

  
About Araza
Our organisation works with Australia’s largest enterprise and government clients providing project and program teams and resources to ensure success. We pride ourselves on being a trusted technology partner and working collaboratively.
We're partnering with a leading Australian department to deliver high-quality projects that drive impactful results, focused on protecting national interests through intelligence, cybersecurity, and strategic operations to combat global threats.
We can talk about Araza all day but instead, here are a few links if you are interested.  www.araza.com.au
https://www.linkedin.com/company/3613383/
  
About You:

• Experience: Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a PSO or similar role
• Project Management: Knowledge of project management methodologies, e.g. PRINCE2
• M365 Knowledge: Experience working with Microsoft 365 and other software applications.
• Measurement: Establishes measurement objectives and the scope of measurement for functions, teams and projects. Plans and implements improvements to measurement capability. Provides advice and guidance for effective use of measures and measurement. Selects measures appropriate to the context and organisational objectives. Reviews data collection and storage mechanisms to support measurement. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for measurement.
• Methods and tools: Provides advice, guidance and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards. Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team levels including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards. Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools. Identifies and recommends improvements.
• Portfolio, programme and project support: Supports programme or project control boards, project assurance teams and quality review meetings. Takes responsibility for the provision of support services to projects. Uses and recommends project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking projects. Sets up and provides detailed guidance on project management software, procedures, processes, tools and techniques. Provides basic guidance on individual project proposals. May provide a cross programme view on risk, change, quality, finance or configuration management.
• Business Skills: Takes actions to achieve greater corporate efficiency. Interprets and reinforces the importance of strategic aims to colleagues. Uses strategic aims to prioritise and drive plans to maximum benefit to the organisation. Influences business decisions.
• Security Clearance: A current AGSVA security clearance of minimum NV1 is required.
• Location: ACT, QLD, WA, VIC

  
Why Araza?
We are GREAT. Our purpose is to have our teams align with our client’s needs to assist them on their most interesting and innovative projects.  We do this by aligning our clients and teams to our core values of Be Great and Be Grateful.  This focus has helped make us an employer of choice and the consultancy of choice in the Australian market.
  
We are DIVERSE and INCLUSIVE. We are recognised leader in diversity with an excellent representation of women in leadership and a team with differing backgrounds, ethnicities, experiences and abilities.
We care. Araza is a company that cares for their people. It's that simple. You will work with truly talented switched on and collaborative team members that help each other to succeed.
We rock. #HumbleBrag is that a lot of other companies think we are great as well!
Our awards list:
2023 CRN Impact Award – Emerging Innovation Winner
2020 Financial Review Fast 100
2020 Financial Times High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
2019 Deloitte Technology Fast50 Australia
2019 Deloitte Technology Fast500 APAC
2019 CRN Fast50
2019 ARN Homegrown Service Provider Winner
2019 EY Winning Women Program Winner
2019 Cisco Diversity Initiative Award Winner
2019 Cisco Rising Star Winner
2019 30 Under 30 Tech Awards Winner
2018 CRN Fast50
2018 Deloitte Technology Fast50 Australia
2018 Deloitte Technology Fast500 APAC
2018 CRN Fast50
2018 ARN Start Up Entrepreneur Winner
2018 ARN Personal Innovation Sales Excellence Winner
2018 Westpac Business of Tomorrow Winner
2018 Financial Times 1000: High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
2017 Deloitte Technology Fast50 Australia
2017 Deloitte Technology Fast1000 Asia/Pacific
2017 CRN Fast50
2017 ARN WIICTA Entrepreneur of the Year Winner
2017 Westpac Business of Tomorrow Winner
2017 Optus myBusiness Business Leader of the Year Winner
2016 Deloitte Rising Star
2016 CRN Fast50
  
  
Next Steps
If this sounds like the opportunity you are looking for, apply now!  Our team would love to hear from you.