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Salary: Band 10, £42,582 - £46,437 (Increasing to £42,942 – £46,830 from September 2023, following a transitional pay award period)

Location: Remote Working, Forth Banks (Base)

Working for #TeamNP

Northumbria Police is one of the largest police forces in the country, serving a population of 1.5 million people from a wide range of various communities, covering an area of more than 2,000 square miles.

There are around 5,800 people working at Northumbria Police and 488 more who contribute by volunteering for one of our various volunteer schemes.

A career at Northumbria Police is like no other, it’s our people that make it an exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can let your skills shine. We are passionate about where we live and what we do, we deliver exceptional support to our communities, and we work together to make our local area a safer place for us all. Every single person at Northumbria Police is valued for their amazing contribution – and we are all part of something truly special.

What we offer

• 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays

• Enhanced Maternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave

• Flexi Time - allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs

• Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)

• Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force

• Fantastic market leading public sector pension scheme

• Corporate Travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro

• Access to Private Healthcare and Eye Test Vouchers

• Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets

• To take care of your physical and mental well-being, we’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service and access to gyms in some stations

• Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel

• Cycle to work scheme

The role

Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Force Transformation Department as a Project Manager

We’ve got a brilliant opportunity for an IT Project Manager to join us on our journey to transform Digital Policing. We’re looking for someone who has experience working on projects delivering organisational and technical change. Initially, you’ll join a large project team to support the delivery of the Forces highest priority technical change focussed on replacement of the Force crime recording system. You’ll have demonstrable knowledge and experience of techniques to plan, monitor and control projects. It’s vital that project governance arrangements and principles are adhered to; ensuring projects within the transformation programme are successfully achieved.

What you’ll do

• Leading and managing technical change, service improvement and service re-design projects

• Planning project activity and identifying appropriate resources to provide realistic timescales for delivery

• Identifying and anticipating risks to project delivery and putting in place appropriate mitigation to ensure delivery within time, cost and quality tolerances

• Working closely with subject matter experts from across the organisation to help identify improved ways of working and working with individuals to turn those ideas and recommendations into reality

• Utilising excellent communication skills to build rapport, engage with and influence key stakeholders, as well as being confident to challenge in the best interests of the organisation

• Working with key stakeholders to identify and document anticipated benefits and ensuring projects are able to successfully achieve those benefits

• Achieving our programme goals by putting people at the heart of the change programme, helping to implement the cultural shift that the organisation is seeking, and ensuring the operational changes are successfully achieved

Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description: Project Manager.pdf

What you’ll bring

• Relevant degree/vocational qualification or equivalent experience

• PRINCE2 practitioner (or equivalent)

• Recent and relevant experience in IT project management with proven evidence of successfully delivering and embedding technical change across complex environments

• Experience leading project teams to achieve defined outcomes and operating in a matrix management environment

We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.

Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact Emma Kassim by email at [email protected]

Just so you know

Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Project Manager with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.

For any queries about the application process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team by email at [email protected].

If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Recruitment Vetting (RV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 3 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed.

A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.

Terms of appointment

This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.

All staff, including those appointed on fixed term contracts, must successfully complete their probationary period before they are eligible to apply for a Northumbria Police vacancy.