Portfolio Practice Lead

You’re agile, keen and open to meaningful work and opportunities that come your way.

You're passionate about public service and ready to lead a team of professionals, share your expertise and guide decision-making to help shape the future of our State.

In this role, you'll:

This is a senior leadership opportunity within the PMO & Enablement (PMO&E) function, responsible for driving portfolio delivery excellence and consistent delivery practices across a broad portfolio of initiatives.

You will provide delivery leadership across programs and projects, ensuring initiatives are effectively planned, coordinated, governed, and delivered in alignment with organisational priorities, delivery standards, and governance frameworks. The role plays a critical part in ensuring delivery is structured, transparent, and aligned to enterprise outcomes across a dynamic, multi-stakeholder environment.

You will work closely with program and project managers, providing oversight and coordination to ensure initiatives are appropriately planned, dependencies are actively managed, and risks are identified and mitigated early. You will partner with enabling functions including project controls, architecture, security, and change management, ensuring integrated planning, execution, and monitoring across the portfolio.

The role requires strong coordination of cross-program dependencies and sequencing, ensuring alignment across multiple delivery streams while minimising conflicts and enabling efficient delivery outcomes. You will also provide ongoing visibility of delivery performance, including risks, issues, and dependencies, supporting senior leadership in prioritisation and decision-making.

You will drive the continuous improvement of delivery practices, methodologies, and tools, uplifting delivery capability, predictability, and performance across the organisation.

As a senior leader, you will build and lead multi-disciplinary teams (direct and indirect), fostering collaboration, accountability, and consistency in delivery practices. You will play a key role in creating a high-performing delivery environment, supporting capability uplift and mentoring delivery teams across the portfolio.

The role operates with a high degree of autonomy, requiring strong judgement, leadership, and the ability to balance competing priorities while maintaining delivery outcomes and governance integrity.

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack. 

About you

You are an experienced senior delivery leader with a strong background in program and portfolio delivery within large, complex or matrix organisations.

You bring proven experience delivering complex programs or portfolios, with strong capability across end-to-end project controls disciplines, including planning, scheduling, governance, risk, and performance management.

You are highly organised and capable of operating autonomously with authority, balancing competing priorities while maintaining accountability for delivery outcomes.

You have demonstrated experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, both direct and indirect, and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders, delivery teams, and enabling functions.

You bring a strong understanding of project, program, and portfolio management methodologies, supported by relevant certifications and experience working with enterprise PPM tools and governance frameworks.

You are a strong communicator and influencer, able to engage effectively with senior executives, providing clear insights, recommendations, and direction across complex delivery environments.

You have a pragmatic and structured approach, with the ability to simplify complexity, drive consistency, and improve delivery capability across a portfolio of initiatives.

With a strong focus on delivery outcomes, collaboration, and continuous improvement, you are passionate about enabling teams to succeed and driving high-quality, predictable delivery across Transport’s portfolio.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.  

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

Flexible work options may be available. Learn more via Flexible work options and policy  

Apply today 

Applications close 11:59 PM  Thursday, 30th of July 2026.

For more information about this role, please contact KAREN.LISTER@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

Learn more about how to apply via Our recruitment process | Transport for NSW 

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