Project Manager (Hybrid) needed in Bracknell, £18ph PAYE – Reference: RQ1277894
Responsibilities:
1. Effectively manage and lead the support for the delivery of service reviews/projects of the Client’s Business Change programme including scoping and analysis phases, preparing business cases, supporting governance arrangements, the coordination of plans, resources, budgets, risks, quality, performance and delivery, ensuring the provision of regular and accurate progress reports for key stakeholders including the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO), Programme Board and Corporate Management Team (CMT).
2. Build effective relationships with the SROs, board and team members and any external consultants responsible for delivering service reviews to effectively engage, persuade and influence on the target outcomes.
3. Support the identification of any gaps in knowledge and experience, as well as resource pressures within the service review/project team necessary for a successful outcome and evaluate options for addressing any shortfalls in developing a robust resource plan, reporting these to the Senior Project Manager.
4. Ensure project deadlines are met in a timely and efficient manner and support the delivery of regular engagement and communications activities to involve stakeholders in the design of services.
5. Understand both Agile and waterfall project management principles and practices and have the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.
6. Act as a lead facilitator for service redesign work focused on end-to-end customer journey mapping to improve customer experience and make savings working in a variety of different services across the Client.
7. Ensuring change is managed effectively and consistently within each service review/project.
8. Manage and record costs of the delivery of the project including managing the process to apply for or request additional funding to support the project deliverables as necessary.
9. Ensure benefits are assessed at the start of the project and recorded throughout until project closure with lessons captured for the benefit of future projects within the overall programme.
10. Manage timely engagement, communication and information dissemination for the project and ensure each project develops and implements a comprehensive engagement plan. Where appropriate, engage with and manage external consultants supporting specific service reviews/projects.
11. Ensure all stakeholders within a service review/project use the chosen collaboration and file sharing tool for all project information ensuring all stakeholders have appropriate access to data and utilize the tool for the central storage and updating of the project’s information.
12. Reflect and learn from experience taking a proactive approach to personal development and learning about change management, modeling the Client’s behaviours to others.
This is a Full-time role on a temporary contract basis.
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