3 months contract with a Local Authority Job Summary: • The Benefit Service is seeking a Project Manager to lead a 3-month review of the Council's approach to tackling inequality, focusing on the Financial Support Team's functions. • The successful candidate will assess current operations and develop a collaborative, integrated service model aimed at supporting residents experiencing financial hardship. • This role will require a combination of project management expertise, effective stakeholder engagement, and service redesign experience. Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample): • Lead a 3-month project across two teams to establish a clear mutual understanding of objectives, work outputs, and outcomes. • Develop a new approach to working collaboratively, ensuring clarity about each team's service offerings for residents, officers, and members. • Establish joint reporting mechanisms on outputs and outcomes for both teams. • Facilitate the design of an integrated service model to better support residents experiencing financial hardship. • Review inflows/outflows, the current service offering, operational capacity, and staff development requirements. • Identify areas of failure demand and opportunities for improvement in outcome tracking. • Explore the potential use of data to improve service efficiency and effectiveness. • Provide a point of contact for officers to contribute to the review and highlight improvement opportunities. • Deliver a comprehensive review document, draft project plan, and proposals for a new integrated team, including draft job descriptions and growth bids, if required. Skills/Experience: • Significant experience in Project Management, including delivering projects on time, within budget, and with clear benefits. • Strong ability to plan and manage project activities, estimate resource needs, and monitor progress against a plan. • Proven track record of delivering within complex organisational structures. • Experience in redesigning services and processes to enhance value and reduce costs. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders. • Proficient in producing business cases, project briefs, and other key project documentation. • Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams, senior managers, and external partner organisations. • Knowledge of current local authority challenges and governance/accountability frameworks. • Strong understanding of equity issues and public service delivery. • Commitment to promoting equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practices. • Proactive problem-solving approach with a "can-do" attitude. Additional Information: • The closing date: 15/04/2025 17:00. • Full-time role – 36 Hr/week.