Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Project Manager for an initial 23 month contract on a rate of £25.12/hour PAYE. This role will be hybrid working with a minimum of two days per week in the office.
 
Responsibilities:
 
– Plan what work needs to be done, when and who’s going to do it
– Assess the risks involved in a particular project and manage these risks
– Manage usage of project management tools across the organisation
– Ensure the work is done to the right standard
– Motivate the team of people involved in the project
– Ensure the project is running on time and to budget
– Escalate risks and project slippage where necessary
– Employ change control in the project as and when necessary
– Ensure the project delivers the expected outputs and benefits
– Report on project delivery in line with corporate requirements
 
Essential Skills:
 
– Planning (Practitioner)
– Frameworks and methodologies (Practitioner)
– Stakeholder engagement (Practitioner)
– Governance (Working)
– Budgeting and cost management (Working)
– Risk and issue management (Working)
– Project Managers should have or be closely working towards a professional level qualification, such as APM’s PMQ, PMI’s PMP and Axelos’ Prince 2.
– Project Managers should have significant experience of working in a PPM role and have at least previously focussed on the delivery of significant elements of projects or workstreams, or project delivery products such as benefits, risk & issue management and business cases.
 
Desirable Skills:
 
– Project Managers should consider full membership of APM to provide monitored ongoing professional development. APM membership – or working towards this status – is desirable.
 
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.