Project Manager – Transformation & Digital
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Interim Project Manager – Transformation & Digital
Job Ref: Walsall (HQ) TCL 19436Pay Rate: £384.62 per day PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: Walsall
Remote working with requirement to come to office as/when business requires (once, twice a month or more)
Pay rate negotiable for the right candidate
The purpose of this job is to successfully deliver strategic Programmes of Business Change and to achieve the stated benefits realisation including any forecast efficiencies and savings. Working in collaboration and under the general direction of Assistant Director of Transformation & Digital.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide project management level oversight and expertise to the Transformational Programme.Be responsible for the successful project management of large, complex, interdependent programmes of business change activity across the Council, its Partners and related organisations. To engage with senior executives within the organisation (in the conception, development, planning, monitoring, and implementation of the business change activity and align to Working Smarter Principles) and to proactively and effectively engage with a diverse range of stakeholders and customers to capture requirements and through innovative thinking delivery fit for purpose solutions.
Be accountable for the project budget reporting any risk / slippage to the Programme Manager / Assistant Director of Transformation & Digital. The post holder is expected to comply with all Council financial and procurement regulations.Ensure the provision and availability of appropriate evidence and documents to demonstrate probity and transparency in respect of all Business Change related activity.
Research best practice and maintain strong links with other public and private sector organisations that have already successfully implemented business change programmes and projects. Prepare and present documentation which brings forward this learning and knowledge into the wider organisation by way of recommendations to the Executive Directors, Programme Senior Responsible Owners and Project Executives.
Contribute to complex policy development related to Business Change Projects that require the development and drafting of new policies, procedures and safety management standards and/ or propose amendments to existing ones where required together with implications for any changes.Lead, design, implement and monitor new ways of working which may lead to proposed policy and procedure changes
Lead on complex process development to introduce new ways of working, develop and author all newly required procedures and make amendments to existing ones where required.
Lead, design, implement and monitor detailed pilots to test untried proposed procedure changes
Ensure outcomes and benefits that result from the Business Change projects of work are promoted, embedded and presented to affected stakeholders in respect of any potential changes to contracts of employment, job descriptions, employee specifications and risk assessment templates.
Undertake governance activities including Gateway Reviews and Project and Project Health-checks including equality impact assessments and cost benefits analysis for each change as required. To provide levels of assurance to stakeholders with regards to risk assessment, ongoing validity of business case and the benefits associated.
Prepare develop and present complex and robust business change business cases for sign off by Executive Directors.Represent the Programme Manager / Assistant Director of Transformation & Digital as required at various forums including project boards, CMT, workshops
Qualifications:
Educated to Degree level or Postgraduate Diploma.Prince 2 or equivalent recognised project management qualification.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.Significant experience in delivering large scale change projects.
Matrix Management - Experience of successfully managing the delivery of projects outside of own line management control.
Demonstrate specialist knowledge of programme management including large scale change programmes.
Ability to influence and lead people at all levels in the organisation.
Ability to influence policy and practice and manage change, influencing other professionals to adopt new ways of working.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite, Adobe Pro).
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Job Ref: Walsall (HQ) TCL 19436
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