About the role
Unitywater's Transformation and Change Portfolio Delivery team sits at the heart of how the organisation delivers on its strategic ambitions, and this role leads the charge on project management excellence within it. As Project Management Practice Lead, with deep domain expertise and a passion for helping others to build theirs, you will be a hands‑on delivery leader and coach in equal measure, personally leading digital, process and change initiatives while simultaneously lifting the capability of Unitywater's broader project management community.
You will role model what great delivery looks like, improving governance and stakeholder confidence through embedding consistent practices and ways of working across the enterprise. Your coaching and systems thinking approach to delivering quality outcomes will ensure every initiative lands with real, measurable value for customers and the community across Southeast Queensland.
What you will be doing
* Defining and maturing Unitywater's project management practice, establishing consistent standards, tools and ways of working that move the team from foundational to leading.
* Actively coaching and mentoring the project management community, shifting team members from task execution to strategic, high‑performance, business value focused delivery behaviours.
* Leading cross‑functional digital, process and change initiatives end to end, championing a One Unitywater approach and maintaining accountability for delivery integrity and outcomes.
* Leveraging adaptive delivery methodologies and a systems thinking mindset in the development of practices and standards.
* Partnering with sponsors, senior stakeholders and other members of the Transformation and Change function to shape benefits realisation strategies, anchor decision‑making in business value and keep delivery focused on strategic outcomes.
* Fostering a collaborative, continuously improving team culture where feedback is welcomed, experiments are encouraged and collective performance is prioritised over individual output.
About you
Our One Unitywater behaviours – Create the Future, Care Together, and Own It – define how we work together at Unitywater. To contribute to this, you will demonstrate the following skills and qualities for the role.
What You Will Need (must have)
* A bachelor's degree or higher in information systems, business, project management or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience delivering complex, transformational projects and programs.
* Tertiary level project and program management qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, MSP or equivalent.
* Extensive end‑to‑end experience leading complex projects and programmes, leveraging a variety of delivery methods, incorporating robust planning, governance, risk management, stakeholder engagement and benefits realisation.
* Demonstrated experience coaching and mentoring project management practitioners across scheduling, financial forecasting, risk, interdependencies, commercial acumen, stakeholder management and adaptive delivery approaches.
* Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including facilitating high‑stakes workshops and aligning diverse groups around shared outcomes and business value.
* Experience leading people through their professional development and wellbeing, with the ability to model best‑practice project management behaviours across an organisation.
What will set you apart (nice to have)
* Experience applying adaptive delivery mindsets, selecting and tailoring approaches based on project complexity and operating context.
* Experience managing third‑party vendor relationships to ensure quality delivery and value for money.
* Exposure to the water industry or a similarly regulated utility environment.
* Demonstrated systems thinking capability, understanding the interrelationships between organisational components to optimise delivery decisions and outcomes.
Working at Unitywater
* Flexibility: We value flexibility and support work‑life balance with hybrid and flexible working, purchased annual leave and access to floating public holidays.
* Wellbeing: We offer several initiatives to support your wellbeing, such as discounted private health insurance, salary packaging, employee assistance program, and access to retailer discounts and benefits.
* Learning and Development: We offer a range of opportunities to feed your curiosity such as Walk on Country experience, study assistance, and access to a dedicated learning program and professional memberships.
* Diversity: We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We invite you to join our dedicated employee networks focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, CALD, Gender, Life Stage, Disability and Accessibility.
About us
Unitywater operates in one of Australia’s most exceptional environments in terms of natural beauty, geographical and demographic breadth. We operate on Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal Country, proudly providing safe and reliable water to customers in Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast and Noosa. We are a water utility serving one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
Application closing date
Applications close: Midnight Wednesday 24th June 2026
Traditional custodians acknowledgment
Unitywater respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways in which we live, work and operate, the Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Turrbal peoples. We honour their enduring connection to these places and their deep cultural, spiritual and environmental knowledge and stewardship over the waterways that sustain us all. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present, who hold the wisdom, traditions and stories of their people.
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