Project Manager Application Checklist: NSW Police Force

Introduction

The Project Manager role at NSW Police Force sits within the Technology & Communication Services Command PMO. This Clerk Grade 11/12 appointment leads complex ICT delivery and strengthens the information leaders use to oversee project performance. The temporary full-time role runs for up to 12 months, with possible extension.

Your application needs to demonstrate implementation experience and a working understanding of portfolio controls. Explain how you used Project Portfolio Management tools to maintain dependable schedules, resources, financial information and risk reporting. Naming the software is only the starting point; show what your use of it helped the organisation decide.

View the official Project Manager vacancy and check the application instructions before choosing your examples.

Project Manager role snapshot

Application requirements

• Cover letter, maximum two pages.
• Up-to-date resume.
• Responses to two target questions, 500 words per question.

Targeted questions

• Describe a significant project you have led through implementation. Outline the type of project, your role in project planning and determining delivery approach, and how you managed stakeholders, risks and competing priorities.
• Provide an example of where you have established project governance, assurance and monitoring arrangements. Describe the governance committees involved, and the reporting risks and assurance processes you implemented, and how you used these to support decision making.

Essential requirements and work conditions

• Australian citizenship, Australian permanent residency or New Zealand citizenship is required.
• The successful candidate must complete a National Police Check and obtain and maintain the required security clearance.
• Do not attach qualification or certificate copies unless requested.

What to highlight

Choose examples that demonstrate the following work. These are practical evidence recommendations for your application.

ICT implementation

Choose a substantial project and explain the delivery approach, your authority, the risks you handled and how you brought the solution into operation.

Governance and assurance

Describe the committees, reporting cycle and assurance checks you established. Explain a decision or intervention they enabled.

Portfolio information

Show how you improved data integrity or used PPM tools to connect schedule, resource, financial and risk information.

Example application structure

1. Use the cover letter to connect your ICT delivery background with the PMO’s needs; keep it within two pages.
2. For question one, explain the implementation context, delivery approach, stakeholder decisions, risk controls and outcome.
3. For question two, set out governance committees, reporting and assurance arrangements, then show how they supported a real decision.
4. Keep each question response within 500 words and ensure the resume supports the scale and responsibilities claimed.

Before you submit

Check that your dates, responsibilities and results agree across the documents. Explain your own decisions clearly, and keep supporting detail available for interview. Confirm every requested upload and response limit in the official application before submitting.

Help with your application

Compare this opportunity with our current Project Management shortlist. Our NSW Government cover letter template can help you organise the evidence. For support preparing the written documents around your experience, get Project Management application help.