Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit a Project Manager for an initial 9 month contract on a rate of c.£/day (inside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances this role will be remote based for the foreseeable future.Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Programme Management to define the project delivery approach and maintain a strong Project Delivery structure and culture.
- Define, document and lead on the delivery of each project and their outputs within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets.
- Prepare realistic project schedules and plans, and ensure they are maintained.
- Evaluating all key project deliverables, as well as final products to ensure traceability of requirements, high quality and client acceptance.
- Monitor and control resources, timescales and costs reporting tolerance breaches and other issues to Senior Management, providing options and proposed resolutions as appropriate.
- Identify, assess and manage risks, opportunities and issues in line with programme guidance to maximise the success of the project and to minimise negative impact to quality, budget, and time line.
- Where project control is in jeopardy, the creation of contingency plans in conjunction with the project owner and other senior management as required, implementing a revised project schedule, scope or budget in a timely manner.
- Provide effective leadership to the project using your expertise to support the continuing development of Project Delivery capabilities within the programme.
- Support release managing activities to achieve key target outcomes
- Manage the planning Change Requests and articulate key impacts
- Support the creation of the Release Forum paper
- Support internal governance gates and track project RAG status against each governance gate
- Work with the Programme planner and produce the key Release metrics
- Use the programme MI to support key decision making into the Release Forum
- Work with the environment teams to ensure the production stack is ready for handover to the Cutover lead
Essential Skills:
- Managing a substantial project of significant value, preferably within a complex programme across multidisciplinary areas.
- Release management approaches
- End to end delivery of a complex and responsive operation to predefined deadlines.
- Delivering public sector projects, ideally with an awareness of the processes required to support the delivery of legislation.
- Building networks and partnerships, and of developing strong relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Management of 3rd party suppliers to deliver in partnership with internal teams.
Desirable Skills
- Experience of shaping and initiation of work streams.
- Track record of both Agile and waterfall deliveries.
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