Project Manager

Project Manager London, England

OFGEM
Full Time London, England 30950 - 46249 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Details

Reference number

272406

Salary

£30,950 - £46,249
London £33,400 - £46,249 / Glasgow or Cardiff £30,950 - £43,649

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer
Level 2a

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

OFGEM - Eserve - Delivery and Schemes

Type of role

Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

2

Contents

    Location

    About the job

    Benefits

    Things you need to know

    Apply and further information

Location

Cardiff, Glasgow, London

About the job

Job summary

Ofgem exists to ensure safe, secure and sustainable energy supply to British households. Project management and delivery is central to Ofgem's work: ensuring change is undertaken efficiently and effectively to deliver on Ofgem’s regulatory and statutory obligations. You'll be working at the interface between government policy and private sector investment, where you can make things happen.

Your work will play a part in helping us protect energy consumers and make a successful transition to a net zero future.

As a Project Manager at Ofgem you’ll be responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of projects to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost, and quality constraints. The Project Manager has a key role in supporting effective project governance, in working with stakeholders, and ultimately ensuring the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised.

You’ll also engage with the wider Project Management and Delivery profession to share ideas and promote continuous improvement.

As a professions-based organisation, we are serious about offering you professional development, training, and support. You can also expect an excellent benefits package, a great working environment with hybrid working, and a shared sense of purpose.

It’s important that we are reflective of the consumers and communities that we serve, so we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, and especially those from underrepresented groups. While this is a full-time role, we will happily accommodate flexible working patterns and job shares.


Job description

Purpose

This role will lead / manage the project and the project team on a day-to-day basis. The Project Manager is responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of projects to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints. The Project Manager has a key role in project governance and working with stakeholders, to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised.

Key Responsibilities

  • Delivery – Create and lead the project 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. Set project controls. Design the project structure appropriate to stage. Select and apply appropriate delivery methodologies.
  • Business case – Co-ordinate development of the business case.
  • Budget – Track delivery within budget.
  • Resources – Schedule / manage resources to deliver the project. May work independently or with a small team.
  • Benefits realisation – Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned. Ensure appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place, and support monitoring of longer term delivery of benefits against the business case where this is no alternative designated owner.
  • Stakeholder management – Identify key stakeholders and develop effective relationships.
  • Risks and issues – Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate.
  • Governance – Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making.
  • Assurance – Support or set appropriate project assurance.
  • Change management – Ensure effective change management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.
  • Guidance and support – Seek appropriate support, guidance and coaching from the project community. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance.
  • Project performance and controls – Build Project Plan and apply appropriate project principles to deliver stated objectives. Identify and set appropriate Project Controls.
  • Track and report delivery against milestones. Actively engage with the wider Project Management and Delivery professional network to ensure sharing of best practice, building of capability, and promote continuous improvement.

Additional Responsibilities

  • Actively engage with the wider profession to ensure sharing of best practice and promote continuous improvement
  • Respond to ad-hoc requests as directed

Person specification

Essential Criteria

  • (lead) Experience in a Project Management role of planning, delivering, controlling and completing a project from start to finish.
  • (lead) A relevant qualification such as those listed below, or equivalent practical experience:
    • PRINCE2 Practitioner
    • Agile Project Management Practitioner
    • APM Project Management Qualification
    • PMI Project Management Professional
    • Leading and Managing Project Workstreams
  • Ability to deliver and change direction in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to build effective relationships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders
  • Excellent organisational, written and verbal communication skills that effectively communicate complex issues to non-expert audiences with attention to detail

Desirable Criteria

  • Experience of a range of project management techniques, including agile and waterfall.
  • Experience of Change Management tools and methods.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • Please refer to the Candidate Pack attached for full details.

Benefits

Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; up to 30 days annual leave. Excellent training and development opportunities. The opportunity to join the Civil Service pension arrangements which include a valuable range of benefits. Flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Interest free season ticket loan.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘supporting statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential and desirable criteria listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria.


Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Recruitment team :

Project Manager
OFGEM

www.ofgem.gov.uk
London, United Kingdom
Jonathan Brearley
Unknown / Non-Applicable
501 to 1000 Employees
Government
Energy & Utilities
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