This role has a starting salary of £40,296 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week.
We are excited to be hiring a new Project Manager to join our fantastic projects team. The team works a hybrid work pattern.
This is a fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity until 31st March 2025.
Rewards and Benefits
- 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service
- Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
- Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
- Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
- A generous local government salary related pension
- Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
- 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
- Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
About the Role
Are you looking for an opportunity to build on your IT project management career?
Surrey County Council's IT & Digital Project Delivery Team has a vacancy for an IT Project Manager to specifically work on infrastructure new builds, enhancements and office relocations. As an experienced project manager you will deliver several concurrent IT projects for business solutions to support property estate initiatives across the Authority. These will be delivered through the use of internal staff, contractors and third party suppliers.
The Project Delivery Team is part of the Architecture, Transition and PPM group responsible for delivering major IT-business solutions across all services of the Authority and a number of external partners. The team comprises a number of Programme Managers, Senior Project Managers and Project Managers.
Our project managers are at the centre of a major transformation programme to deliver IT solutions that make the Authority's staff more mobile, flexible and responsive, providing them with ability to work in partnership with colleagues, other public bodies, agencies and residents, using a variety of IT devices, tools and applications.
Working with Heads of Services, Business Partners and other key stakeholders, you will develop and agree projects briefs, PIDs, and project and resource plans, and be responsible for the day-to-day management of projects, and ensuring completion to agreed cost, time and quality criteria. This will often involve working and negotiating with external suppliers, as well as management of a virtual project team.
You must be an experienced PRINCE 2 project manager. As a recognised expert in the theory and practice of Project Management you will develop good Project Management expertise in others and enhance Project Management processes in the organisation.
You will manage virtual project teams and will therefore have good communication, engagement and organisation skills together with credibility in the role.
The post requires strong influencing skills and the ability to bring together project sponsors (usually senior managers), expert advisers, external consultants, contractors and end users together to form an effective team focussed on delivery of the projects.
Shortlisting Criteria
To be considered for shortlisting for this position, your application will clearly evidence the following:
- Must have previous experience as a Project Manager and have at least some knowledge of IT infrastructures including network topologies (WAN, LAN) components, and structured cabling
- Must have good experience in stakeholder management at all levels in an organisation
- Ability to manage and work with 3rd party suppliers
- Experience of or working in a PRINCE2 project environment
- Ability to travel around Surrey as the successful candidate will need to visit a number of council offices.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 2nd June 2024 with interviews to follow.
Our Commitment
Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:
- The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
- The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form
Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role.
We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.