Project Manager - Cyber Security Remote
Job description
The United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA) provides health security for the nation by protecting us from infectious disease and external hazards.
UKHSA a looking for an experienced Project Manager to work within the UKHSA Cyber Security Team, which is part of the Data and Analytics Group. You’ll manage an agile portfolio of work, delivered by several multidisciplinary teams, with a mix of internal resources and resources from multiple suppliers for the Safer Cyber Programme, designed to introduce and enhance fundamental cyber controls.
Your job will be to create iterative plans to solve problems and deliver new cyber controls, focusing multi-disciplinary teams on what’s important and getting the best value against constraints. You’ll also be a senior member of the team with the opportunity to shape the delivery function to respond swiftly for the future. You will provide a bridge between the team and service users to build awareness and capability across UKHSA networks and Other Government Departments of Government Standards to deliver robust solutions for a wide range of threats, delivering high performing services.
This is a fixed term role for six months from start date
Main Responsibilities
- Building and maintaining multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring that they are motivated, organised and collaborating to agreed iterative plans
- Coaching teams and team members, facilitating continuous improvement and applying the most appropriate Agile and lean tools and techniques to product delivery
- Planning and communicating with stakeholders, overcoming challenges and visualising progress towards agreed goals
- Identifying the people, skills, and resources that teams need to deliver agreed goals
- Proactively managing the risks, issues, dependencies and blockers to delivery as well as any delegated budgets and benefit/value realisation and reporting these things to the appropriate Safer Cyber Programme board
- Participating in the Safer Programme delivery group, learning, sharing and applying skills and knowledge to improve delivery outcomes.
- Keeping the delivery teams focussed on identifying and meeting user needs so that they remain on track to meet the Safer Cyber Programme needs
- Managing budgets and suppliers, submitting all necessary forecasts and gaining all necessary investment approvals
- Demonstrable experience of leading delivery using a range of Agile and lean tools and techniques, empowering agile teams to be self-organising, inclusive and continuously improving.
- Demonstrable experience in delivering successful digital products and services and/or cyber security enhancements projects
- Demonstrable experience of growing and nurturing Delivery Management capability and coaching teams in good agile practice
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively across organisational, technical and non-technical audiences.
- Communicate with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust and delivering difficult messages, being persuasive when required making sure all stakeholder expectations are managed.
- Experience and comfort planning, forecasting, estimating and delivering in an often uncertain and fast changing environment
