Senior Project Manager (London)

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager in London

Pay rate: 575 Per Day

Contract duration: Temporary ongoing

Department: Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters

Purpose:

Day to day management and leadership of complex projects and project teams across the change lifecycle within a dynamic and flexible environment, to agreed parameters (time, cost, quality).

Duties: 

Champion and implement effective project delivery, supporting the vision to deliver effective change to counter terrorism, including:
• Leadership of a team to bring consensus to what needs to be achieved to resolve business challenges within our mid to high complexity project(s). The Senior Project Manager needs to be comfortable working across the change lifecycle and in both business change and tech enabled transformations and with project value often around £3m-£10m per annum.
• Definition and agreement of the appropriate methodologies, governance and reporting mechanisms to be used across project delivery in line with Portfolio Office standards.
• Ensuring governing forums and senior stakeholders are appropriately engaged with ongoing change activity through briefings, alongside more targeted conversations to influence others and build support for delivery.
• Remote and/or in person task management of a project team within an often reactive environment with moderate to high levels of uncertainty to move towards an agreed delivery end point.
• Development of project product breakdown structures and project / work stream plans with team members, followed by monitoring and assurance activities to ensure project progress is monitored and controlled and dependencies managed.
• Development of Business Cases at appropriate points of the project lifecycle and then ownership and management of these cases through the multi stage CTPHQ governance process.
• Proactive risk and issue management with an understanding of management levers which can be used and appropriate points at which these should be deployed.
• Managing commercial processes in conjunction with the CTPHQ commercial team to ensure relevant delivery contracts are in place, then subsequent contract management through the lifecycle of the project(s). The Senior Project Manager needs to understand principles around commercial management and ensure correct controls in place to deliver value for money.
• Proactive management of dependencies and working relationships with other areas of CTPHQ or other external organisations which are required to conduct activities to support project delivery e.g. CTPHQ ICT or Home Office
• Delivering change management activities across the national network – leveraging regional support where appropriate and ensuring the relevant regional stakeholders have input at appropriate points. This will include people change aspects so the Senior Project Manager needs to be comfortable leading HR consultation processes in conjunction with the CTPHQ HR team.
• Manage communication and engagement with project stakeholders, developing and maintaining key relationships and working in partnership to resolve problems to benefit operational policing
• Ensuring business change is sustained through appropriate embedding activities and ICT and business service management
-Line management and pastoral care for one to three Staff Project Managers who are likely to be working on other areas of the portfolio. The SPM may also be required to contract manage agency Project Managers working elsewhere in the portfolio.
-Leadership and contribution to wider CTPHQ Change Pillar team initiatives, development and strategy.

Experience: 

• Experience of senior management within a complex change portfolio
  • Experience of managing complex projects in line with corporate standards
  • Experience of influencing, negotiating with, and providing challenge to Director level stakeholders
  • Experience of resolving and escalating risks, issues and conflicts as necessary within a complex change portfolio
  • Experience of managing suppliers and contractors, assuring quality and ensuring value for money
  • Experience of managing a team, setting a collaborative culture, building capability and creating an environment of continuous learning
  • Experience of technology enabled change project delivery in a technical/ICT environment in conjunction with an ICT team.

Skills:

Advanced: Highly competent in this skill and could train others:
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• PPM Risk Management
• PPM Issue Management
• Business Case Writing
• PPM Governance Management
• Project Scoping & Design

Intermediate: Executes the skill competently with minimal supervision
• Analysing options to support Decision-makers
• Business Change
• Collecting and analysing quantitative and qualitative data
• Creative Thinking
• Interviewing
• Management and Status Reporting
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Presentation and verbal communications skills
• Resource planning
• Workshop design
• Stage-Gate Assurance
• PPM Planning & Dependency Management
• PPM Governance Design
• PPM Mgmt report & dashboard design
• PPM Benefits Management
• PPM Resource planning & forecasting
• PPM Financial management
• PPM Change Control
• Business Case Assurance
• Programme Assurance & Recovery
• Programme Scoping & Design
• PPM Risk Analysis & reporting
• PPM Risk Contingency planning
• PPM Reporting data collection & analysis
• PPM Benefits mapping and profiling
• PPM Benefits planning and tracking
• PPM Resource tracking
• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Project
• Commercial & procurement management
• Action tracking & management
• PPM Resource prioritising & scheduling

Qualifications:

Essential:

• PRINCE2: Practitioner and / or Agile Project Management Practitioner (or recognised industry equivalent qualification).
  • Managing Successful Programmes: Foundation (or recognised industry equivalent qualification).

Desirable:

• Agile Project Management Foundation & Practitioner (AgilePM®) or PRINCE2 Agile (or recognised industry equivalent
  • ITIL Foundation Certification

Apply online or contact Terri O’Keefe on 01925 377 878. You can also email terri@peelsolutions.co.uk for more information on this role.