Project Manager City of Westminster, England
Job description
About Us:
THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
Innovation and Change in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories. Where people use their vision and commitment to open doors for the next generations.
Nothing beats the feeling of helping someone find their passion. At Westminster City Council, our City Lions team helps young local people engage with culture, creativity and dreams. When they came across a lonely, isolated 16-year-old who called himself a failure, they knew what to do. They worked 1-2-1 to find the thing this boy really loved. YouTube, it turned out. But it’s impossible to turn that into a career, right? Wrong. A week later, he was enrolled on the British Film Institute film-making programme. It was the ultimate light-bulb moment. And it turned him into what he is today – a budding Spielberg with a world of opportunity at his feet.
Please view the extraordinary story of the Impossible Dream here.
The Role:
As a Project Manager, you can make your own powerful contribution shaping the key areas across Westminster. Initial pilot areas for place based improvement projects include Queensway, Edgware Road and Pimlico and projects include both short-term tactical improvements and once-in-a-generation revitalisations that will see you collaborate with teams across the Council.
In practical terms, the role sits within a multi-disciplinary Corporate Programme Management Office (CPMO) of project managers, business partners, analysts and Power BI developers.
You’ll run key projects, scope and develop new opportunities, and manage budgets and resources. As a central operational figure, you’ll also contribute to wider pipeline strategies, and the communications around them.
Ultimately, everything you do will push projects towards successful completion. We’ll look for you to make the best use of information and data – while enhancing key relationships internally, with external delivery partners and other stakeholders.
There’s lots of autonomy on offer too: to explore new ways of supporting residents, and develop your own working style. It’s a reflection of the team’s trusting, inclusive and welcoming character.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
About You:
An authority on project products, processes, tools and techniques; you’ll excel at shaping complex, multi-faceted delivery programmes.
Beyond smart budget and resource management, this is also a challenge for an inspirational communicator. Someone able to influence stakeholders of all levels, and keep everyone moving in the same direction.
An assured problem solver, we’ll call on your experience to spot and mitigate issues before they arise. And you’ll bring the strong analytical skills and lateral thinking to evolve our strategies and solutions.
The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists to support our desire to increase the number of staff from underrepresented groups in our workforce. We especially encourage applications from a global majority background and, while the role is open to all applicants, we will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit. If you are from a Global Majority background, you can self-declare this to the hiring manager as part of our positive action commitments.
What We Offer:
Westminster is an amazing place. There are 250,000 diverse residents, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people working here every day. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.
At Westminster City Council, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive workplace and employer of choice. We encourage and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we service at all levels. We champion equality, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, has a sense of belonging and are empowered to be their best, that is the Westminster Way. To find out more about how we do this visit https://www.westminster.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/public-health-strategy-policies-and-reports/equality-duties
As a forward thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.
The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job. If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.
