We have a current opportunity for a Senior Project Manager on a permanent basis. The position will be based in Glasgow. For further information about this position please apply.
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Pay: £46000 - 56000 per annum Benefits
Location: Glasgow
Duties and Responsibilities:
* Responsible for leading the delivery of projects within agreed timescales, budgets, and scope; driving project initiation; management of the project and its resources to produce successful services that meet business needs.
* Responsible for concurrently managing several large size organisational, process, systems, and data projects across all Colleges/University Services and central functions.
* Management of project staff resources for large project teams often including external parties, providing support, leadership, and direction; developing plans for the delivery of required work and allocating the work according to resource type required, availability, and skills; monitoring progress of work against plan, evaluating alternatives and initiating corrective action when required.
* Communication with all relevant sponsor and stakeholder communities, including consultation and management of expectations; engaging and managing stakeholders from across the University, including academics, senior colleagues to operational staff to ensure clarity in the delivery of key project communications.
* Deployment of a robust and responsive risk management approach to identify, assess, monitor, and actively manage risks.
* Ensure that there are appropriate quality management processes in place to ensure that the final deliverable of projects comply with stakeholder requirements, appropriate legislation, University policies and procedures, and industry best practice.
* Report to the relevant Project Boards and senior university forums and committees on all aspects of the management and delivery of projects, preparing high-quality papers and required project management products.
* Provide leadership in business process mapping and improvement as part of delivering the wider project change.
Required Skills:
* Extensive knowledge of Agile project management methodologies.
* Extensive knowledge of and exposure to the IT system development life cycle.
* Knowledge and experience of business process mapping & design.
* Management of complex projects across the full life cycle with a successful track record of delivery.
* Ability to write detailed project plans and ensure these are agreed and communicated with the project team, project board and stakeholders.
* Demonstrably excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical.
* Leading change management in a large and diverse organisation.
* Ability to challenge the status quo effectively and develop innovative approaches.
* Relationship management, engaging and positively managing relationships with those delivering and affected by change.
* Proven ability to liaise and cooperate with people across organisational boundaries.
* Creating and maintaining schedules of work as an active tool for staff delivering work packages.
* Leadership and motivational skills in formal and informal situations.
* Effective negotiation and diplomacy skills.
* Effective writing and communication skills to produce clear project management documents and sponsor and stakeholder focused content.
* Relevant experience of successfully managing projects that involve complex planning in a large organisation.
* Using Agile tools, or similar project planning software.
* Substantial expertise in leading business analysis.
* Experience of managing an organisation-wide data centric programme of work.
* Experience of running project teams of 20 people, including external contractors.
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