IT Project Manager

Detailed Description From Employer:

IT Project Manager

Duration - 12 Months

Remote - with the occasional visit to the Leatherhead office.

Rate - Please submit the candidate's desirable rate. Outside IR35 - subject to QDOS.

Security - BPSS/CTC

A critical role within this team is the IT Project Manager, who will report to the Senior IT Project Manager/Programme Director, have peer relationship with Senior Transition Lead and Solution Lead, and manage the Project Coordinator.

The role is for a disciplined, tech-savvy and proactive IT Project Manager whose strengths are in detailed planning, plan execution, analysis, governance, senior stakeholder management. Managing multiple workstreams, project managers, ensuring delivery of multiple parallel critical paths.

Responsibilities

• The role holder will have ownership of detailed plan and will be responsible for ensuring the critical paths of multiple projects have integrity, tasks are resourced adequately with realistic effort provisions, internal and external dependencies are clearly defined and managed, critical milestones are clearly defined and met.
• The role holder will have ownership of management of the detailed plan - this will include but not be limited to detailed planning and re-planning of multiple project elements, smoothing and float management, deconfliction, critical path burn-down and reporting, task progress updating and reporting.
• The role holder will be responsible for ensuring all Products defined in the plan are managed per the configuration management and change management processes, ensuring all Products go through proper review cycles with correct stakeholders to meet plan dates.
• The role holder will be responsible for leading all internal standups, sprint ceremonies and checkpoints required to ensure plan remains on critical path, escalating to Senior Transition Lead where a critical milestone is forecast to breach tolerance and agree exception plan to recover.
• The role holder will be responsible for ensuring the KANBAN boards are being used correct by all task-based resources to ensure standups are efficient and effective.
• The role holder will be responsible for all internal progress reporting and input on any agreed external progress reporting the Senior Transition Manager deems required.
• The role holder will have overall responsibility for RAID log, including capture, update and any governance required to manage, maintain and report.
• The role holder will assist Senior Transition Lead in Quality Gateway management, including preparing the gateway assessments and managing the gateway governance meetings, assessment issue and mitigations.
• The role holder may be required to assist the Programme Director in Programme-level planning, reporting or governance.
• The role holder will be responsible for managing the Project Coordinator in the delivery of their responsibilities, majority of which will be in support of Technical PM/
• The role holder will be key point of contact for Project Managers in supplier mobilisation teams and will need to build delivery relationships to ensure mutual critical milestones are met.
• The role holder will be able to impact assess change as required using modelling to forecast impacts to plan.
• The role holder will ensure cohesion with supplier mobilisation plans and key delivery milestones ensuring alignment of the KBR and Supplier plans where applicable.
• The role holder will ensure all documentation is stored and updated in the master document register as required.
• The role holder will ensure communications and correspondence with internal team, external suppliers, and client are frequent and support the progress of the overall plan.
• The role holder will be responsible for the overall management of the project change process.

Experience Requirements

Experience

• Experience of managing large, complex (multiple critical path) plans across 12 months+ durations.
• Experience of delivery in both waterfall and agile environments.
• Experience of leading standups with experienced delivery teams and developers.
• Experience of managing multiple projects in a Programme environment.
• Experience of supply-side project management.
• Experience of public sector business orientated (ie, non-technical) client stakeholders.
• Experience working with multiple external PMs, building good delivery relationships to ensure mutual success.
• Experience of working in fast-paced projects with fixed go-live dates.
• Experience of managing project coordinator or junior PM.
• Experience of impacting change to a project and its resources as it occurs

Technical Skills/Knowledge

• Intermediate/Advanced in Smartsheet and/or MS Project
• Intermediate in MS Excel, including working understanding of macros and Pivot tables.
• Intermediate in MS PowerPoint.
• Some experience using Jira KANBAN or other digital KANBAN.
• Good working knowledge of software, integration and hosting technologies (Azure and IaaS virtualized)

Qualifications/Certifications Requirements

Educational

Desirable

Degree Educated preferably in a technical subject

Essential Practitioner in a recognised PM qualification or accrediting body (PRINCE2, APM, PMI)

Professional

Desirable - Certified SCRUM Master

Reasonable Adjustments:

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