Cyber Security Project Manager
Utilities
Predominantly remote: 2 days per month in Warwick
6 months
£600 per day
In short: Project Manager required to deliver co-ordination activities relating to future regulatory compliances in the security posture of a large utilities client. This isn't a super senior role so please don't expect high level programme creation. This is more aligned to planning activities, portfolio management, resource management, chasing actions, specifying and costing up various projects.
Experience with CAF (Cyber Assessment Framework) and/or NIST would be beneficial.
In full:
- The Project Manager is responsible for managing, leading, controlling, and supporting the project team toward a successful project outcome (one that achieves the stated benefits for the project) within the appropriate time, cost and quality criteria.
- Adhering to all Cyber standards and procedures as determined by the Steering Committee and Programme Board, the Project Manager delivers the agreed project/s from initiation to completion.
Responsibilities:
- Maintaining documentation as required to ensure compliance with relevant policies and regulatory requirements
- Work with IT and Security as required to deliver all relevant IT components and any IT relevant processes are adhered to
- Ensure the Project team are integrated and fully understand the Delivery Process within the Cyber Programme
- Work with the Programme Management Team to develop and agree the overall direction and integrity of the project
- Provide effective leadership to the project team, ensuring that team members are supported, motivated and developing their skills and experience
- Ensure all stakeholders including client, business management, users, staff, operational and engineers, IT, Security (as required) fully understand the objectives and scope of the project and are clear in their expectations of the project
- Effectively estimate and monitor project tasks, costs, time scales, resource requirements and finances for the successful completion of the project. Appropriate intervention and management where these deviate from agreed tolerances complying with governance, business sanctioning authorities and finance procedures as required
- Management of effective change control procedures ensuring formal approval for any changes to the approved scope and documented
- Manage the production of the required deliverables of the project and ensuring appropriate review process is in place and approvals are obtained
- Prepare and maintain project, stage, exception and quality plans and track activities against these plans. Provide regular and accurate reports to the Programme Board as required
- Identify, assess and manage the risks, assumptions, issues and decisions (RAID) to the success of the project, including developing effective mitigation where required
Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
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