Project Manager x 4 (SC Cleared)

ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Day-to-day management and delivery of projects or workstreams across the change lifecycle to agreed parameters (time, cost, quality).

Key Responsibilities:
Proactively manage discrete projects or project work packages, reporting into either the Senior Project Manager or Senior Responsible Owner, including; management of blended (staff and contractor) project or workstream teams, maintenance of specific programme or project management products, putting in place and active management of appropriate project governance, project plans, risk and issue registers, tracking and monitoring updates, managing escalations and effective change control.

More specifically independently leading on (on behalf of the SRO) or supporting the Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager to:

• Ensure allocated project(s) maintain a defined PPM maturity, as directed by the Portfolio Office.
• Develop Business Cases at appropriate points of the project lifecycle and then ownership and management of these cases through the multi stage CTPHQ governance process.
• Facilitate and coordinate workshops to assist in the development of programme and project management products.
• Create and maintain consistently high quality, accurate and relevant programme and project level governance products (e.g. delivery RAG, dependency logs, project plans, risks and issues register, benefits realisation plan, financial data, resource / workforce data).
• Manage programme and project Change Control Request (CCR) processes in line with portfolio office standards, ensuring that all change governance decisions and actions are proactively followed through effectively and audited appropriately.
• Lead a project team and maintain summary of Programme/Project resources including organisation charts and trackers. This could include managing suppliers and commercial arrangements to deliver project outputs.
• Establish and manage regular reporting cycles, ensuring highlight reports are submitted into the PMO or PfMO in accordance with reporting timelines and appropriate summary dashboards are prepared to enable effective decision making.
• Managing effective and efficient standards, practices and processes, ensuring that all parts of the reporting framework are managed in a consistent and controlled way, so that the deliverables needed by the Project / Programme Board are correct, timely and fit for purpose.
• Provide budget control.

The Project Manager will be able to seek professional guidance from specialists either in a dedicated Programme Management Office (PMO) or the Portfolio Management Office (PfMO), and will ensure implementation of programme / project management processes and standards, as defined by the Portfolio Office Centre of Excellence.