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Closing date 11 August 2023

Salary: £46,359 - £60,000 per annum

What is the purpose of this job?

Project management at RDG is about the balance between driving delivery and being an inspiring leader who forges strong working relationships. As a Project Manager at RDG your role is to work across project teams, operational teams and a range of stakeholders to successfully deliver projects to time, scope and budget with risks and dependencies recognised and managed. This will involve employing both project management tools and techniques and excellent people skills. This role will be measured by the successful delivery of projects within our organisation, and where appropriate our member organisations too.

This role will work within the Smarter Information, Smarter Journeys programme (SISJ). The SISJ programme is the industry catalyst for delivering better and simpler customer information to our people and our customers, on Great Britain's Railways. It has a vision to provide customers with all the information they want, when and how they want it.

The programme is split into a series of projects that include making enhancements to customer information at the booking stage, journey to the station, at the station, on board the train. The role of the PM will be to lead on one or more of these projects, working with stakeholders to agree the approach and driving forward the project to ensure it achieves its objectives and outcomes.

What can I expect to do in this job?

This isn’t an exhaustive list; however, you can expect to be involved in the following:

• Planning what work needs to be done, when and who’s going to do it;
• Reviewing and managing risks;
• Being responsible for getting the work done to the right standard;
• Motivating the team of people involved in the project;
• Co-ordinating multiple work streams and teams;
• Ensuring the project is running on time and to budget;
• Dealing with changes to the project as and when necessary;
• Ensuring the outcomes and benefits of the project are delivered; and
• Working to the RDG Project Delivery Framework

Who will my key contacts be?

• Other Project Managers across the SISJ programme
• Project Team Members
• Managers and Senior Managers
• Internal supporting functions (e.g. finance, procurement, legal)
• Third Party Suppliers
• Train Operating Companies (TOCs) / member organisation representatives
• Network Rail
• Transport Focus and the Office of Rail and Road (ORR)
• Department for Transport

What experience, skills and knowledge do I need?

We are looking for someone with experience of working as a project manager or similar, demonstrating a strong aptitude for the role and solid relevant project delivery knowledge.

Some of the specific skills and knowledge we are looking for include:

• Experience of managing multiple third-party suppliers and coordinating with internal functions, such as QA and service delivery (essential);
• Experience managing the early stages of projects: facilitating high-level requirements gathering, running stakeholder workshops, and developing business cases.
• Experience of delivering complex technical projects in line with a recognised delivery lifecycle (essential);
• Managing project scope, including benefits management, change control, configuration management, change management and requirements management;
• Experience with project scheduling – both resource and time;
• Project budget and cost control experience;
• Managing risk, understanding the risk context and demonstrating a range of risk techniques;
• Experience in dealing with external resource, including third party contracts and procurement;
• Solid understanding of a project business case and ability to translate the business case into successful delivery; and
• Experience in project planning, reporting and stakeholder management
• Experience using Agile, Scrum or Waterfall in projects