Job Description
Our client based in North West London is currently recruiting for a Parking Project Manager to join their team as soon as possible.
This is a full time, temporary position on an ongoing role for approx 12 months offering hybrid working and a day rate of £400 PAYE / Approx £480 Umbrella LTD P/Day.
The Parking Projects Manager is responsible for the delivery of a number of transformational Parking Services projects, including development and implementation of relevant policies, and the development and implementation of a parking strategy for the Council.
Responsibilities:
1. To plan, manage and deliver a range of complex and strategically important Parking Services projects.
2. To work across a range of departments and to relevant project sponsors, delivery agreed project outcomes and allocating resources within agreed budgets, while ensuring a consistent corporate approach.
3. To work with Directors, Heads of Service, service managers, as well as IT, HR, communications, suppliers and finance colleagues, and frontline staff, using fine-tuned judgment and experience to influence, negotiate with and persuade a wide range of stakeholders to help deliver Parking Services projects.
4. To provide agreed progress updates and advice to Council, Cabinet, Scrutiny Panels, the Corporate Management Team, Departmental Management Teams and other managers and staff across the organisation.
5. To provide guidance and challenge to individual project sponsors on the most effective approaches to project delivery, as well as insight on best practice and innovative ideas for post-implementation service delivery.
Requirements:
6. Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, Project Management Professional, Agile, or equivalent)
7. Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the business including occasional working outside of usual hours
8. Knowledge of innovative approaches to transforming services in local government and their practical application.
9. Highly developed inter-personal skills, including the ability to empathise with others and to influence, negotiate and persuade peers and more senior stakeholders to pursue desired courses of action that will help deliver projects, enhance services and fulfil corporate priorities.