Project Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager, Operations Manager

Can you promote proven delivery methodologies while guiding project teams to meet governance, time, budget, and quality goals?

Do you enjoy supporting project managers with assurance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement across complex change portfolios?

If so, we'd love to hear from you!

We’re looking for a Project Manager to manage the delivery of small to medium projects, sub-projects of programmes or work streams within projects. To support Senior Project Managers and/or Programme Managers on significant and challenging areas of large projects/programmes.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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You will promote the use of preferred delivery methodologies (PRINCE2, MSP, SCRUM and Kanban) across the Change Portfolio. To provide support, advice and guidance to the Programme and Project Management Community (PPMC) in using these methodologies as well as compliance with the Assurance Framework and Programme and Project Management Framework (PPMF) standards.

• Establish Project Structure and roles in conjunction with the Project Executive.
• Define and clearly articulate objectives for each project role.
• Review structure and team to take account of evolution of the project.
• Initiate governance and processes to assure project will meet objectives on time, within budget and to specified quality.
• Agree any delegation and use of project assurance roles required by the Project Board, Introducing external scrutiny as appropriate.
• Liaise with the Project Board or its appointed Project Assurance roles to assure the overall direction and integrity of the project.
• Implement appropriate action resulting from assurance activities and reviews.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.