Agile Project Manager

Agile Project Manager

Location: Ealing - Hybrid working

Salary: £50,000 per annum

Contract: 11-month fixed term contract, Full time, 35 hours per week

DBS check required: Basic

About us

We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in. With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership. Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers. We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

Role Overview

We are looking for an Agile Project Manager to join our fantastic Project Services division. You will be delivering an in-flight priority project with our external partner increasing colleagues use of Dynamics 365 Customer Experience. This project has 3 workstreams. 1, Managing the build and deployments. 2, Managing roll out including training and hypercare. 3, Managing the de commissioning of an existing solution. Ensuring delivery to the agreed budget, timescales, and quality standards. Enabling colleagues to realise and sustain the expected benefits.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain project documentation with Project Sponsor(s) to the agreed standard, assessing the high-level requirements, cost, forecast benefits, risks and issues
• Deliver project governance including reporting with Project Sponsor(s). Including but not limited to Project Board meetings used to actively update key stakeholders on progress, challenges and to gain decisions & direction.
• Report upwards on project progress as required, ensuring appropriate and timely escalations
• Review and manage the project scope and plan with Project Sponsor(s) to meet business requirements
• Identify and manage project stakeholders at all levels across the project
• Manage, support, and develop the project team in use of Agile methodology, influencing them to take positive action and accountability for their work, to ensure planned tasks are completed.
• Planning and co-ordinating both internal and external resources using appropriate tools
• Manage and lead project team members and third-party suppliers, , risks & issues understood and appropriately managed, escalating as appropriate.
• Deliver the governance mechanisms to enable this
• Plan, coordinate and manage budgets, where required
• Coordinate and manage the communications plan in line with departmental and corporate standards
• Proactively identify and manage risks / issues appropriately. Delivering mitigation via associated troubleshooting including any recommendations for change or investment
• Support Project Sponsor(s) in providing regular updates through the established governance framework and reporting lines
• Ensure a framework for benefits realisation is in place to track and report against baseline measures

More about you

Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Maths and English (Grades A*- C)

Agile practitioner

Proven experience of delivering large projects in corporate environments that include people, process and technology changes

Experience of assembling, leading and managing matrix teams, including external partners

Experience of applying Agile methodologies to manage and adapt to changing priorities, enabling the seamless integration of the system into operational processes to enhance service delivery and customer experience

Experience of stakeholder engagement, sprint planning, risk and issue management, and ensuring deliverables meet quality standards while maintaining transparency and alignment with strategic goals

Experience of managing cross functional teams to ensure successful project delivery across the project lifecycle

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life. We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

• 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Flexible working
• Investment in your learning and development.
• In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.
• We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:

• actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
• provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
• offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
• make reasonable adjustments as required

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting the role requirements

We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk.

A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong.

Find out why our people love working with us.”

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.