What's involved with this role: Interim Project Manager – Counter Terrorism Policing Reference no: MPX TCLZ 0009 2ACE / 1 Pay Rate: Up to £440.14 per day PAYE depending on experience Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 12 months City: West Brompton, London This role requires DV clearance Hybrid working The Project Manager will be directly accountable to the operational Senior Responsible Owner or a Senior Project Manager for delivery of a standalone project or workstream. The Project Manager will be line managed by a Senior Project Manager, and work flexibly across the change portfolio, deployed on specific change project(s) as requested. The post holder will work on business change project delivery across the national CT/PS. Key Responsibilities: 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 multi stage CTPHQ 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. The Project Manager will be able to seek professional guidance from specialists either in a dedicated Programme Management Office (PMO) or the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO), and will ensure implementation of programme / project management processes and standards, as defined by the Portfolio Office Centre of Excellence. NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF 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 this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining 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, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption 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 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. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Qualifications: PRINCE2: Practitioner (or recognised industry equivalent qualification). Civil Service Contract Management: Foundation. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. 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. Use of Portfolio Office Templates. Minute Taking. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). S 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