Project Manager Remote
Job description
Project Manager - Inside IR35
Contract Term: 12 months (with possible extension)
Contracting Authority: BEIS - UKRI
Location: Remote Working (flexibility required for travel – UK Wide)
Job Purpose:
To support the Programme Manager in managing the operations process and delivering a range of interventions across the portfolio of Place programme, with the new innovation Accelerators being the jobholders’ priority in 2022/23.
The role holders’ duties will include programme development, delivery, evaluation and reporting. They will work closely with other Programme & Project managers and internal and external stakeholders to ensure interfaces and dependencies between systems and projects are managed effectively.
As a Project Manager, your main responsibilities would be:
- Day-to-day project management of operations throughout the full lifecycle of the programme from project commissioning through to evaluation, working closely with the Programme Manager, and in collaboration with Innovate UK / UKRI / BEIS Innovation & Place policy teams.
- Support and deputise for the Programme Manager
- Management of internal stakeholders for successful operational delivery, addressing issues with senior stakeholders ensuring they are fully engaged and able to support delivery.
- Coordinate multi-disciplined teams, both internal and third party, to achieve project deliverables to schedule, to budget and to the required quality.
- Stakeholder identification and management, including regular, appropriate and timely communications throughout the programme
- Ensuring project documentation including governance documents, KPIs, and highlight reports are maintained.
- Generation of accurate, relevant and timely reporting to enable progress to be tracked centrally.
- Embed monitoring, evaluation and benefits realisation within the programme
- Delivery of process improvements delivering resource efficiencies within the organisation
- Provide secretariat to programme-related meetings as required.
- Report into Programme boards
- Share best practice with, manage and mentor other team members and across the organisation
- Delivering ad-hoc project work as directed by senior managers.
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Considerable experience of managing or playing a key role in projects delivering a broad range of benefits
- Experience of delivering projects within a programme structure
- A clear-track record of working within the constraints of time, cost and quality.
- Clear experience of achieving results through influencing skills rather than direct control
- Experience of successfully managing multiple stakeholders with conflicting demands and priorities
- Significant experience of managing projects and supporting cross functional teams delivering process improvements into operations
- Experience of managing change within an organisation
Desirable:
- Experience delivering business critical changes into active environments.
- Experience of creation and management of on-going service and support structures delivering business critical services a benefit
- Understanding of structure of government and key UKRI partner organisations as well as its constituent agencies and brands, as well as the Devolved Administrations
- Prince 2, MSP and/or Lean Six Sigma methodologies or clear previous experience
If this Project Manager role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following “this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different”.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 12 months
Benefits:
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Project Management: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: Remote
