Vacancies

Senior Manager, Portfolio Delivery

• New senior leadership role shaping enterprise portfolio delivery
• Consolidated function with clear accountability & impact
• Relocation assistance available + regional lifestyle benefits

The role

• Full Time, Continuing
• Level 10 - $142,137 to $150,720 p.a. (plus 17% superannuation)
• Albury-Wodonga, Bathurst, Dubbo, Orange, Port Macquarie or Wagga Wagga

This is a newly created, senior leadership opportunity to centrally lead and transform enterprise technology portfolio delivery across the University.

Bringing together previously separate management functions, this role provides a single point of accountability for project delivery, business analysis, change, testing, and portfolio and project governance; driving stronger, more consistent outcomes aligned to the future operating model.

Reporting to the Director, Strategy and Transformation, you will provide enterprise-level leadership across the technology delivery portfolio. You will ensure initiatives are strategically aligned, effectively governed, and successfully delivered to achieve organisational priorities.

You will shape investment decisions, influence senior stakeholders, and lead a multidisciplinary team to deliver complex, interdependent programs of work, while strengthening delivery capability and frameworks across the organisation.

This is a unique opportunity to build a consolidated, high-performing function with clear accountability, improved resourcing coordination, and stronger delivery outcomes within an existing budget framework.

Relocation assistance is available for the successful candidate.

About you

You are an experienced and strategic technology delivery leader who thrives in complex environments and can bring clarity, structure, and impact at an enterprise level.

You will bring:

• Proven leadership of large scale portfolio delivery functions
• Experience managing significant budgets, resources, and contracts
• Strong track record delivering complex, enterprise-wide programs
• Expertise in governance, frameworks, and delivery methodologies
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and executive decision making
• Experience building and leading high-performing, multidisciplinary teams
• Strong capability in prioritisation, planning, and resource optimisation
• A focus on continuous improvement, outcomes, and value realisation.

About us

We are a university of the land and people of our regions. True to the character of regional Australia we have gumption, we have soul and we collaborate with others. We develop holistic, far-sighted people who help their communities grow and flourish.

The Wiradjuri phrase yindyamarra winhanganha means the wisdom of respectfully knowing how to live well in a world worth living in. This phrase represents who we are at Charles Sturt University – our ethos. It comes from traditional Indigenous Australian knowledge, but it also speaks to the mission of universities – to develop and spread wisdom to make the world a better place.

Harnessing technology, we thrive as a distributed yet connected community, welcoming and engaging with people across Australia and the world.

Learn more about us here.

Visit our website to learn about our great range of employee benefits.

Charles Sturt University is committed to building a diverse workforce as shown through our Athena Swan Bronze Award, our Australian Workplace Equality Index Bronze Award and our membership of a range of diversity focused organisations including Diversity Council Australia and Pride in Diversity. We encourage applications from First Nations people, carers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability, neurodivergent people, and people of all age groups, genders and sexualities for all roles.

To apply

Click the Apply button and complete your application online and upload a copy of your CV. You will be asked to respond to three (3) targeted questions. If you experience difficulties applying online or for further information on completing the application process please visit our how to apply page or contact us.

This position is open to Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents; or applicants who hold a current valid work visa commensurate with this position.

Further information

Additional information is available in the position description or by contacting:

Recruitment specific enquiries: Rebecca Dwyer | Talent Acquisition Consultant | redwyer@csu.edu.au

Job specific enquiries: Caroline Hungerford | Director, Strategy and Transformation | chungerford@csu.edu.au

Closing Date: 11pm, 4 June 2026

Advertised: 21 May 2026 09:00 AM - AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 04 Jun 2026 11:00 PM - AUS Eastern Standard Time