Senior Project Planner

County Durham  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Government client require a Senior Project Planner in Liverpool with occasional travel to Darlington. The planning function will be required to work with a range of external suppliers to provide the client with realistic plans and milestones across a range of projects.

These will need to be tracked and any potential or actual deviations signalled to senior management at the earliest opportunities, along with potential mitigating activities.
- The planner will be expected to support the project managers with ongoing projects
- Build and maintain project plans to ensure effective planning. - Provide regular updates and reports on the progress of projects against plans to the project manager.
- Undertake regular meetings with workstreams within the project to build and track progress against plans
- Build and maintain effective stakeholder and partner relationships, ensuring dependencies are managed effectively.
- Support the organisation in a smooth transition to the new supplier. There will be no direct staff responsibility although the successful candidate will be expected to mentor and train existing planning resource.

Skills Required
Essential Skills: The individual will need to have substantial planning skill and experience in order to be fully operational once in post and to also mentor less experienced planning resource. Desirable Skills: Project management and substantial planning skills As this is working for a government client, Security clearance to SC level must be achieved before joining. Please state on your application whether you are already cleared or happy to be checked.

Qualifications Required
Standard POISE desktop, plus MS Project.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Networkers International Plc
Published at
17.05.2013
Project ID:
538041
Contract type
Freelance
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