Senior Project Manager (Transformation)
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Project Manager on a 3-year contract on a salary of £49,250 – £56,921/annum. This role will be hybrid working.
Responsibilities:
– Responsible for leading the support of the service excellence programme within transformation: within agreed timescales, budgets, and scope: driving project initiation; management of the project and its resources to produce successful services that meet business needs.
– Responsible for concurrently managing several large size organisational, process, systems and data projects.
– Management of project staff resources for large project teams often including external parties, providing support, leadership and direction: developing plans for the delivery of required work and allocating the work according to resource type required, availability and skills; monitoring progress of work against plan, evaluating alternatives and initiating corrective action when required.
– Communication with all relevant sponsor and stakeholder communities, including consultation and management of expectations; engaging and managing stakeholders from across the organisation, including academics, senior colleagues to operational staff to ensure clarity in the delivery of key project communications.
– Deployment of a robust and responsive risk management approach to identify, assess, monitor, and actively manage risks.
– Ensure that there are appropriate quality management processes in place to ensure that the final deliverables of projects comply with stakeholder requirements, appropriate legislation, organisational policies and procedures, and industry best practice.
– Report to the relevant Project Boards and senior organisational forums and committees on all aspects of the management and delivery of projects, preparing high-quality papers and required project management products.
Essential Skills:
– Extensive knowledge of change projects including, for example, organisation and process design, systems implementation, and data projects.
– Relevant Degree/postgraduate qualification, or equivalent experience.
– Project Management qualification and thorough understanding of project management methodologies.
– Extensive knowledge across a range of information systems.
– Management of complex projects across the full lifecycle with a successful track record of delivery.
– Ability to write detailed project plans and ensure these are agreed and communicated with the project team, project board and stakeholders.
– Demonstrably excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical.
– Leading change management in a large and diverse organisation.
– Ability to challenge the status quo effectively and develop innovative approaches.
– Relationship management, engaging and positively managing relationships with those delivering and affected by change.
– Relevant experience of successfully managing projects that involve complex planning in a large organisation.
– Using Agile tools, or similar project planning software.
– Experience of managing an organisation-wide data centric programme of work.
– Experience of running project teams, including external contractors.
– Proven ability to liaise and cooperate with people across organisational boundaries.
– Creating and maintaining schedules of work as an active tool for staff delivering work packages.
– Leadership and motivational skills in formal and informal situations.
– Effective negotiation and diplomacy skills.
– Effective writing and communication skills to produce clear project management documents and sponsor and stakeholder focused content.
Desirable Skills:
– SCRUM certification and/or PRINCE2/Agile Practitioner certificate (or equivalent).
– Knowledge of the competitive dialogue procurement process.
– Knowledge of Agile project management methodologies.
– ITIL Foundation.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Responsibilities:
– Responsible for leading the support of the service excellence programme within transformation: within agreed timescales, budgets, and scope: driving project initiation; management of the project and its resources to produce successful services that meet business needs.
– Responsible for concurrently managing several large size organisational, process, systems and data projects.
– Management of project staff resources for large project teams often including external parties, providing support, leadership and direction: developing plans for the delivery of required work and allocating the work according to resource type required, availability and skills; monitoring progress of work against plan, evaluating alternatives and initiating corrective action when required.
– Communication with all relevant sponsor and stakeholder communities, including consultation and management of expectations; engaging and managing stakeholders from across the organisation, including academics, senior colleagues to operational staff to ensure clarity in the delivery of key project communications.
– Deployment of a robust and responsive risk management approach to identify, assess, monitor, and actively manage risks.
– Ensure that there are appropriate quality management processes in place to ensure that the final deliverables of projects comply with stakeholder requirements, appropriate legislation, organisational policies and procedures, and industry best practice.
– Report to the relevant Project Boards and senior organisational forums and committees on all aspects of the management and delivery of projects, preparing high-quality papers and required project management products.
Essential Skills:
– Extensive knowledge of change projects including, for example, organisation and process design, systems implementation, and data projects.
– Relevant Degree/postgraduate qualification, or equivalent experience.
– Project Management qualification and thorough understanding of project management methodologies.
– Extensive knowledge across a range of information systems.
– Management of complex projects across the full lifecycle with a successful track record of delivery.
– Ability to write detailed project plans and ensure these are agreed and communicated with the project team, project board and stakeholders.
– Demonstrably excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical.
– Leading change management in a large and diverse organisation.
– Ability to challenge the status quo effectively and develop innovative approaches.
– Relationship management, engaging and positively managing relationships with those delivering and affected by change.
– Relevant experience of successfully managing projects that involve complex planning in a large organisation.
– Using Agile tools, or similar project planning software.
– Experience of managing an organisation-wide data centric programme of work.
– Experience of running project teams, including external contractors.
– Proven ability to liaise and cooperate with people across organisational boundaries.
– Creating and maintaining schedules of work as an active tool for staff delivering work packages.
– Leadership and motivational skills in formal and informal situations.
– Effective negotiation and diplomacy skills.
– Effective writing and communication skills to produce clear project management documents and sponsor and stakeholder focused content.
Desirable Skills:
– SCRUM certification and/or PRINCE2/Agile Practitioner certificate (or equivalent).
– Knowledge of the competitive dialogue procurement process.
– Knowledge of Agile project management methodologies.
– ITIL Foundation.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
