Project Manager
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Cambridgeshire, is currently looking to recruit a Technical Project Manager on a permanent contract with a Salary of : £38,890
Responsibilities:
– To undertake the role of technical project manager ensuring that allocated projects and associated works are delivered on behalf of the Unified Communications team within Capital Estates and Facilities Management.
– To ensure each allocated project is developed through a project briefing process with the users prior to feasibility and work commencing, using agreed PRINCE2 templates.
– Utilise the agreed project management tools, including the developing, maintaining and updating project specific records. Or suggest the use of new tools where efficiency and tracking can be improved.
– To liaise with all associated teams at the briefing stage, prior to the commencement of the works, during construction and commissioning as relevant.
– To liaise with Head of Service to ensure appropriate support is allocated to projects and works.
– To organise and save all appropriate documentation, drawings, quotes, project plans etc. In order that all information is readily available and stored logically.
– To establish internal and external project reporting structures using agreed processes for the works. The level of structure will depend on the size and scope of each project.
– To ensure all technical aspects of projects (paging, telephony, VoIP, and IT) are designed and planned adhering to all relevant processes, procedures and best practice.
– To ensure consistent project specifications are issued for each project.
– To ensure risks and issues are identified from the start and throughout the project lifetime and mitigated/ addressed appropriately in agreement with the project team.
– Responsible for delivering projects on time, to budget and to agreed quality standards that meet business needs.
– Develop the Project Plan and apply appropriate project principles to deliver stated objectives. Identify and set appropriate Project Controls. Track and report delivery against milestones.
– Where projects include new services being designed and implemented, ensuring that the scope of new services are carefully drawn up and agreed with the end user and customer, including SLAs and contracts.
– To deliver the project works within the agreed programme, providing feedback to the Head of Service on any deviations from the agreed programme.
– To ensure all projects and works are handed into the operational environment safely and in a timely manner once complete. Including completing the acceptance into service process with Business-as-Usual team before project closure.
– To establish post project evaluation mechanisms for each project to ensure benefits are realised and that lessons are learned, captured, documented and shared.
– To be responsible for ensuring that the service and delivery quality required from a project under their control is of the required standard, together with ongoing plans for monitoring the quality and performance of those new services.
Essential Skills:
– Degree or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent relevant experience
– PRINCE 2 Foundation or equivalent industry standard project methodology qualification
– Proven track record of professional and personal development
– Experience of working within technical project teams in a voice, contact centre, or IT environment
– Effectively working across organisational and operational boundaries
– Significant experience of project planning, monitoring and implementation
– Experience of capturing stakeholder needs, assessing, defining and justifying those needs to arrive at an agreed schedule of requirements using appropriate communication and engagement channels
– Experience of identifying and monitoring risks and issues, planning how to mitigate / respond to those risks and issues and implementing the responses
– Experience of clearly defining roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and establishing controls and approval routes appropriate to each stage of the project to monitor project progress and compliance, including project reviews
– Experience of identifying, quantifying, mapping and tracking project benefits to justify investment in the project, and to provide assurance that the benefits identified can be realised
– Excellent written and verbal skills
– Excellent presentation skills
– Change management experience
– Budget management/Financial management
– Hands on technical IT experience whether that be in a development, support or implementation role
– A technical knowledge of business system server environments
– A knowledge of underlying infrastructures (Networking, Windows Server, Virtual Servers) and its impact on business system performance and availability
– SharePoint environment and data management knowledge
– Change management processes and their importance for maintaining environment integrity
– Proactive with drive and enthusiasm
– Able to work under own initiative
– Able to work as part of a team and share knowledge
– Discretion and integrity
– Good customer and interpersonal skills
– Self-motivated and able to motivate others
– Well organised with excellent documentation skills along with presentation skills
– Excellent written and verbal skills
– Able to influence others
– Inner composure, able to recover quickly from setbacks and learn from them
– Demonstrate ownership of issues and proactively see them through to completion without prompting
– The ability to work on parallel tasks to a high standard and to time constraints
– Ability to plan, prioritise, manage workloads, set appropriate goals, be visible, and make decisions alone if necessary
Desirable Skills:
– PRINCE 2 Practitioner equivalent industry standard project methodology qualification
– ITIL certification
– Change Management qualification
– Leadership qualification
– Infrastructure architecture qualification
– Development qualification
– Microsoft server administration certification
– Experience of CAFM solutions
– Business requirements analysis
– SharePoint folder and view configuration and administration
– Business process review and modification
– SQL Server database management experience
– Experience of configuring, supporting, securing and managing Microsoft based systems
– Experience in an IT support role
– Experience in a software development role
– Digital transformation and automation of manual and sometimes legacy paper-based processes
– System migration from on premise to cloud environment
– Knowledge of one or more programming languages
– Knowledge of various virtualisation technologies and networking environments
– Knowledge of access and audit control systems
– CCTV knowledge
– Radio system knowledge
– Car parking system knowledge
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– To undertake the role of technical project manager ensuring that allocated projects and associated works are delivered on behalf of the Unified Communications team within Capital Estates and Facilities Management.
– To ensure each allocated project is developed through a project briefing process with the users prior to feasibility and work commencing, using agreed PRINCE2 templates.
– Utilise the agreed project management tools, including the developing, maintaining and updating project specific records. Or suggest the use of new tools where efficiency and tracking can be improved.
– To liaise with all associated teams at the briefing stage, prior to the commencement of the works, during construction and commissioning as relevant.
– To liaise with Head of Service to ensure appropriate support is allocated to projects and works.
– To organise and save all appropriate documentation, drawings, quotes, project plans etc. In order that all information is readily available and stored logically.
– To establish internal and external project reporting structures using agreed processes for the works. The level of structure will depend on the size and scope of each project.
– To ensure all technical aspects of projects (paging, telephony, VoIP, and IT) are designed and planned adhering to all relevant processes, procedures and best practice.
– To ensure consistent project specifications are issued for each project.
– To ensure risks and issues are identified from the start and throughout the project lifetime and mitigated/ addressed appropriately in agreement with the project team.
– Responsible for delivering projects on time, to budget and to agreed quality standards that meet business needs.
– Develop the Project Plan and apply appropriate project principles to deliver stated objectives. Identify and set appropriate Project Controls. Track and report delivery against milestones.
– Where projects include new services being designed and implemented, ensuring that the scope of new services are carefully drawn up and agreed with the end user and customer, including SLAs and contracts.
– To deliver the project works within the agreed programme, providing feedback to the Head of Service on any deviations from the agreed programme.
– To ensure all projects and works are handed into the operational environment safely and in a timely manner once complete. Including completing the acceptance into service process with Business-as-Usual team before project closure.
– To establish post project evaluation mechanisms for each project to ensure benefits are realised and that lessons are learned, captured, documented and shared.
– To be responsible for ensuring that the service and delivery quality required from a project under their control is of the required standard, together with ongoing plans for monitoring the quality and performance of those new services.
Essential Skills:
– Degree or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent relevant experience
– PRINCE 2 Foundation or equivalent industry standard project methodology qualification
– Proven track record of professional and personal development
– Experience of working within technical project teams in a voice, contact centre, or IT environment
– Effectively working across organisational and operational boundaries
– Significant experience of project planning, monitoring and implementation
– Experience of capturing stakeholder needs, assessing, defining and justifying those needs to arrive at an agreed schedule of requirements using appropriate communication and engagement channels
– Experience of identifying and monitoring risks and issues, planning how to mitigate / respond to those risks and issues and implementing the responses
– Experience of clearly defining roles, responsibilities and accountabilities and establishing controls and approval routes appropriate to each stage of the project to monitor project progress and compliance, including project reviews
– Experience of identifying, quantifying, mapping and tracking project benefits to justify investment in the project, and to provide assurance that the benefits identified can be realised
– Excellent written and verbal skills
– Excellent presentation skills
– Change management experience
– Budget management/Financial management
– Hands on technical IT experience whether that be in a development, support or implementation role
– A technical knowledge of business system server environments
– A knowledge of underlying infrastructures (Networking, Windows Server, Virtual Servers) and its impact on business system performance and availability
– SharePoint environment and data management knowledge
– Change management processes and their importance for maintaining environment integrity
– Proactive with drive and enthusiasm
– Able to work under own initiative
– Able to work as part of a team and share knowledge
– Discretion and integrity
– Good customer and interpersonal skills
– Self-motivated and able to motivate others
– Well organised with excellent documentation skills along with presentation skills
– Excellent written and verbal skills
– Able to influence others
– Inner composure, able to recover quickly from setbacks and learn from them
– Demonstrate ownership of issues and proactively see them through to completion without prompting
– The ability to work on parallel tasks to a high standard and to time constraints
– Ability to plan, prioritise, manage workloads, set appropriate goals, be visible, and make decisions alone if necessary
Desirable Skills:
– PRINCE 2 Practitioner equivalent industry standard project methodology qualification
– ITIL certification
– Change Management qualification
– Leadership qualification
– Infrastructure architecture qualification
– Development qualification
– Microsoft server administration certification
– Experience of CAFM solutions
– Business requirements analysis
– SharePoint folder and view configuration and administration
– Business process review and modification
– SQL Server database management experience
– Experience of configuring, supporting, securing and managing Microsoft based systems
– Experience in an IT support role
– Experience in a software development role
– Digital transformation and automation of manual and sometimes legacy paper-based processes
– System migration from on premise to cloud environment
– Knowledge of one or more programming languages
– Knowledge of various virtualisation technologies and networking environments
– Knowledge of access and audit control systems
– CCTV knowledge
– Radio system knowledge
– Car parking system knowledge
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
