Technical Project Manager
Main purpose of job:
To work in close partnership with colleagues across the organisation to manage technical project delivery The project manager is required to deliver a variety of IT projects making improvements across the technical estate The project manager needs to be able to manage multiple project deliverables and communicate the status of IT projects in a clear and timely way.
Responsible to: Project Delivery Manager
Budgetary responsibilities:
No direct department budget responsibilities. The project manager will be responsible for the management and control of the project budget on behalf of the project sponsor.
Responsible for:
This role has no direct reports or line management responsibilities. The project manager will have responsibility for managing the day-to-day activities of resources across IT and 3rd parties for project delivery
Key Job Responsibilities:
The project manager is required to deliver project that are signed off at the business case review board.
The Project Manager is responsible for:
Project Delivery
- Producing a Project Initiation/Feasibility Document to confirm project scope
- Producing and maintaining a project plan and required documentation throughout the lifecycle stages
- Facilitating risk workshops and managing risk through the project lifecycle
- Managing project financial tracking and purchasing
- Managing changes in project scope, producing documented change control impact assessments
- Reporting project status to the steering group
- Arranging and facilitating steering group meetings, chaired by the project sponsor
- Planning, organising and managing technical change implementations
- Producing transition documentation to hand over projects to the IT service team (BAU)
- Requesting and organising project resources and team members to deliver project tasks and activities
Support to Technical Team
- Coaching team members in project practices and processes to ensure full and consistent understanding and appreciation.
- Facilitating conflict resolution and decision making.
- Coach the Team in self-organization and cross-functionality encouraging them to operate on a selfmanaged basis.
- Facilitating resolution of the general conflict of goals between development team (high technical quality) and product owner / project manage (more scope)
- Reminding the team of their commitment to the project goal
- Helping the team to identify and resolve impediments.
- Provide feedback to the team, helping them to continually improve. Resolve blockers that stop the team progressing