Stakeholder Engagement Manager - ICT
Location: Brisbane CBD, 4000
Duration: 4 months with extensions
Rate: $156.88 per hr inc super // $1,255.11 per day inc super (based on 8 hours)
Talent is currently seeking a IT Stakeholder Engagement Manager to join a large Queensland Government based Department based in Brisbane, CBD.
This is a senior engagement role responsible for acting as the key connection between technology teams, business stakeholders and executive leadership. You will build trusted relationships across the organisation, understand business priorities and ensure stakeholder needs are effectively represented throughout the technology delivery lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior business leaders, executives and key stakeholders.
- Act as a primary liaison between ICT program teams and business functions.
- Partner with business leaders to understand strategic priorities, operational challenges and technology requirements.
- Develop and deliver stakeholder engagement and communication strategies.
- Facilitate governance forums, steering committees, workshops and executive briefings.
- Identify stakeholder impacts, concerns and resistance and develop appropriate engagement strategies.
- Proactively manage stakeholder issues and escalations and facilitate resolution between competing business and technical priorities.
- Work closely with Change Management and business teams to support business readiness and technology adoption.
- Monitor stakeholder satisfaction and adoption outcomes.
- Provide executive-level communications and briefings regarding key issues, risks and stakeholder concerns.
- Continuously improve stakeholder engagement, governance and communication practices.
About You
To be successful, you will bring:
- Significant experience in stakeholder engagement, business relationship management, technology delivery or program environments.
- Demonstrated experience working within large and complex digital transformation programs.
- Strong executive-level stakeholder management and relationship-building capability.
- Ability to establish credibility and trust across both business and technology teams.
- Experience developing and executing stakeholder engagement and communication strategies.
- Strong facilitation skills across workshops, governance forums, steering committees and executive briefings.
- Experience navigating complex stakeholder issues, competing priorities and escalations.
- Understanding of organisational change, business readiness and technology adoption.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technology matters to senior non-technical audiences.
Highly Desirable
- Experience working within Queensland Government or another large public-sector digital transformation environment would be highly regarded.
- Agile or PRINCE2 certification and a recognised Change Management qualification such as Prosci or equivalent would also be advantageous
If this opportunity sounds like the right fit for you, please apply now or contact Anika anika.starkey@talentinternational.com