Job Title: Project Manager

Vetting level DV (must hold active DV clearance unable to provide sponsorship)

Location: Hybrid (London/WFH)

Duration: 12 month contract (Inside IR35)

Day rate: £500 - £550 depending on experience

Job Summary:
As Project Manager you will be responsible for the successful delivery of specific projects and work packages within our clients change portfolio. You will be deployed to lead change projects or provide support to the Senior Project Manager and/or Programme Manager.

Job Purpose:
Day-to-day management and delivery of projects or workstreams across the change life cycle to agreed parameters (time, cost, quality).

Key Responsibilities:
Proactively manage discrete projects or project work packages, reporting into either the Senior Project Manager or Senior Responsible Owner, including; management of blended (staff and contractor) project or workstream teams, maintenance of specific programme or project management products, putting in place and active management of appropriate project governance, project plans, risk and issue registers, tracking and monitoring updates, managing escalations and effective change control.

More specifically independently leading on (on behalf of the SRO) or supporting the Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager to:

• Ensure allocated project(s) maintain a defined PPM maturity, as directed by the Portfolio Office.
• Develop Business Cases at appropriate points of the project life cycle and then ownership and management of these cases through the multi stage governance process.
• Facilitate and coordinate workshops to assist in the development of programme and project management products.
• Create and maintain consistently high quality, accurate and relevant programme and project level governance products (eg delivery RAG, dependency logs, project plans, risks and issues register, benefits realisation plan, financial data, resource/workforce data).
• Manage programme and project Change Control Request (CCR) processes in line with portfolio office standards, ensuring that all change governance decisions and actions are proactively followed through effectively and audited appropriately.
• Lead a project team and maintain summary of Programme/Project resources including organisation charts and trackers. This could include managing suppliers and commercial arrangements to deliver project outputs.
• Establish and manage regular reporting cycles, ensuring highlight reports are submitted into the PMO or PfMO in accordance with reporting timelines and appropriate summary dashboards are prepared to enable effective decision making.
• Managing effective and efficient standards, practices and processes, ensuring that all parts of the reporting framework are managed in a consistent and controlled way, so that the deliverables needed by the Project/Programme Board are correct, timely and fit for purpose.
• Provide budget control.

Essential Experience

• Good levels of previous experience working within a project and programme management environment.
• Knowledge of or direct experience in applying programme and project management approaches such as MSP, Agile and PRINCE2.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience of project delivery in a technical/ICT environment
• Experience of establishing and implementing project control mechanisms in a project and/or programme or business environment.
• Previous experience of working in (local) government, a security agency or policing is desirable.

Qualifications
Essential:

• PRINCE2: Practitioner (or recognised industry equivalent qualification).

Our client is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive team. They recognise that some candidates may feel they have the majority, but not all of the skillsets outlined. We encourage those candidates to apply for the role, as we are looking for individuals with varying levels of experience to complement those already within the team. Should candidates be successful through the recruitment process, we will work with and support individuals, to build skillsets to the outlined levels. DV Clearance however, is an essential requirement and due to timescales we are unable to consider anyone who does not already hold an active DV Clearance.

If you feel you have the right experience please apply with your latest CV and we will be in touch.
Posted Date: 07 May 2024 Reference: JSBH-16639-2 Employment Business: Jumar Solutions Ltd Contact: Elliot Gustave