Job description
Champion and implement effective project delivery for projects within the HR 2022/23 Business Plan
- Manage communication and engagement with project stakeholders, developing and maintaining relationships and working in partnership to resolve problems within defined project boundaries
- Provide overall direction and leadership for the project delivery team
- Build and sustain capacity and capability within the project teams to deliver benefits as stated in the Project Brief and Mandate documents
- Manage project team resources, ensuring they are tasked effectively to deliver defined outcomes.
Specific Project Management Competencies
- Able to lead a complex digital project, including set-up, management and delivery, ensuring that the project delivers to time, cost and quality and meets all HR processes, standards and reporting requirements
- Create detailed end-to-end processes maps and workflows which are required to deliver the agreed model.
- Identify efficiency opportunities and improvements for the project, savings, hand-offs and dependencies across strands.
- Describe the actions, processes, and other technical conditions that the project needs to meet and to describe any condition or criteria to validate the successful completion of a deliverable
- Co-ordinate SME input and capture all requirements.
- Test the requirements to gain clarity on whether or not they are feasible in terms of time, quality, resources, and budget
- Reporting to all stakeholders and sponsors to provide a regular and timely update on the project’s status in terms of time, budget, scope, and benefits
- Manage the logistics for socialisation and piloting the new performance approach i.e. workshops, interviews, meetings
- Co-ordinate the project, project governance and its interdependencies, working closely with other HR project managers and key stakeholders.
General Project Management Competencies
- Identify, manage and resolve risks, track and manage costs and benefits, provide reports as required, and ensure all outputs meet agreed standards
- Identify, understand and manage all project related dependencies
- Own all project management products
- Identify resource requirements and undertake related activities
- Manage stakeholder communications and key messages for the project
- Manage project level resource to ensure project outputs are deliver to time, cost and quality
- Planning digital campaigns from the initial stages through to final delivery
- Acting as the key contact for clients
- Continuously assessing working methods and processes and making recommendations for improvements to technical problems
- Identifying and implementing KPIs and project milestones
- Reviewing project resources and providing an analysis on whether they meet the demands of the project
- Ensuring key Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met.
- Effectively Manage 3rd Party Vendors
The role leads and manages:
- The people working on their projects, including any assistant project managers, to:
- Provide quality outputs to time, quality and cost, that enable programmes to achieve their outcomes
- Ensure that all staff on their projects develop their expertise to a world-class standard
- Allocate and prioritise project resources to the overall benefit of the portfolio
- Contractors within their area to meet changing resource requirements across the projects, ensuring quality of output and value for money
Qualifications:
- Recognised qualifications in programme or project management Experience
- Significant experience in delivering technical projects, particularly systems implementation
- Significant experience of senior management within a complex change portfolio
- Significant experience or working in a complex PMO or Portfolio Office environment
- Experience in delivering non-technical projects
- Experience of influencing, negotiating with, and providing challenge to director-level stakeholders
- Experience of resolving and escalating risks, issues and conflicts as necessary within a complex change portfolio
- Experience of managing suppliers and contractors, assuring quality and ensuring value for money
- Experience of managing a team, setting a collaborative culture, building capability and creating an environment of continuous learning
- Experience of managing complex programmes and projects
- (Beneficial) Experience of delivering projects in a HR environment
Apply online or contact Terri O’Keefe on 01925 377 878. You can also email [email protected] for more information on this role.