Job description
Ideally you will be SC Cleared or eligible for SC Clearance.
Main Responsibilities:
- Delivery - Create and lead the project (or group of projects) to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
- Project Management - Day to day management and leadership of the project and the project team. Provide effective leadership and management controls. Set project controls. Design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage. Set appropriate delivery methodologies. Manage effective transition between project phases.
- Business Case - Develop and draft the Business Case and/or support development of the programme business case, with input from specialists as necessary.
- Budget - Develop the budget and track delivery within budget.
- Resources - Identify skill requirements; and deploy and develop resources. Manage or direct a medium sized team.
- Benefits Realisation - Deliver the agreed Business Case benefits and outcomes. Ensure appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the Business Case.
- Stakeholder Management - build consensus across a large and diverse range of stakeholders, successfully managing engagement and communications to ensure buy-in and ownership, bringing in senior level support when required.
- Risks & Issues - ensure strategic and operational risks and issues are identified, prioritised, assessed, and appropriate mitigating actions developed, implemented and monitored throughout the life of the project. Ensure senior stakeholders and specialists are engaged where appropriate.
- Have significant experience in delivering either complex or high-risk projects within agreed time, cost and quality constraints.
- Be experienced, credible & proactive in dealing with a broad and complex range of stakeholders, with the confidence to engage with senior officials and ministers.
- Be used to operating with a high degree of autonomy.
- Have practical experience in actively managing project risks.
- Be an experienced people manager, able to build and develop a high performing, flexible and motivated project team.
- Be comfortable networking throughout the business, challenging and influencing decision making when required.
Please apply should you meet the above criteria.
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