What's involved with this role: Interim Project Manager – Data & Intelligence Gloucestershire 5260316 Hybrid working is available for this role, normally two days a week are required in the office more initially for training.Key Requirements:
* Experienced project manager with expertise managing projects through lifecycle.
* Experience of data and intelligence related projects (desirable).
* Experience producing project documents (e.g. business cases, project plans and communication plans)
* Experience managing risk/issues and ensuring deliverables are achieved
The post-holder will be responsible for managing projects within the Council’s project management framework, taking responsibility for project governance and deliverables under the direction of the project sponsor.Key Responsibilities:
* Manage one or more projects through their lifecycle from initiation to delivery of benefits, taking responsibility for planning, developing and implementing the project
* Produce robust and detailed project business cases and plans, identifying and agreeing the project scope, deliverables, milestones, risks and benefits
* Be responsible for all aspects of project governance, managing gateway approvals, maintaining change control and ensuring that corporate requirements are met
* Manage, facilitate and contribute to the development, design, analysis and appraisal of options in order to help the sponsor determine the best way of achieving the project’s objectives
* Ensure that project deliverables are achieved to the agreed specification with regard to time, cost and quality, using creativity and problem-solving techniques to overcome obstacles as they arise
* Oversee delivery of the project, planning and organising work and ensuring that project risks and issues are identified, managed and resolved
* Provide matrix management for all staff and resources assigned to the project, including project team members and support services.
* Keep up to date with legislative and wider changes in service areas relevant to the current portfolio of projects in order to be able to recommend and help to design solutions
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please