We are currently recruiting for a Project Manager in London.
Pay rate: £550 - £567.50 per day.
Hours: Full time (36 hours per week)
Contract duration: Temporary ongoing
Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to provide day-to-day management and delivery of projects or workstreams across the change lifecycle to agreed parameters (time, cost, quality).
Duties:
- Management of blended (staff and contractor) project or workstream teams.
- Maintenance of specific programme or project management products, putting in place and active management of appropriate project governance, project plans, risk and issue registers, tracking and monitoring updates, managing escalations and effective change control.
- Ensure allocated project(s) maintain a defined PPM maturity, as directed by the Portfolio Office.
- Develop Business Cases at appropriate points of the project lifecycle and then ownership and management of these cases through the multistage governance process.
- Facilitate and coordinate workshops to assist in the development of programme and project management products.
- Create and maintain consistently high quality, accurate and relevant programme and project level governance products (e.g. delivery RAG, dependency logs, project plans, risks and issues register, benefits realisation plan, financial data, resource / workforce data).
- Manage programme and project Change Control Request (CCR) processes in line with portfolio office standards, ensuring that all change governance decisions and actions are proactively followed through effectively and audited appropriately.
- Lead a project team and maintain summary of Programme/Project resources including organisation charts and trackers. This could include managing suppliers and commercial arrangements to deliver project outputs.
- Establish and manage regular reporting cycles, ensuring highlight reports are submitted into the PMO or PfMO in accordance with reporting timelines and appropriate summary dashboards are prepared to enable effective decision making.
- Managing effective and efficient standards, practices and processes, ensuring that all parts of the reporting framework are managed in a consistent and controlled way, so that the deliverables needed by the Project / Programme Board are correct, timely and fit for purpose.
- Assist Senior Project Manage / Programme Manager with budget control.
Experience:
- Good levels of previous experience working within a project and programme management environment.
- Knowledge of or direct experience in applying programme and project management approaches such as MSP, Agile and PRINCE2.
- Experience of project delivery in a technical/ICT environment
- Experience of establishing and implementing project control mechanisms in a project and/or programme or business environment.
- Previous experience of working in (local) government, a security agency or policing is desirable.
Qualifications:
- PRINCE2: Practitioner (or recognised industry equivalent qualification).
- Civil Service Contract Management: Foundation.
Apply online or contact Terri O'Keefe at Peel Recruit.