IT Project Manager (Project status / Tracking / Reporting)

Predominantly remote: Onsite in Warwick when needed

£550 - £600 per day

In short: We're seeking a PM or a Senior PMO to assist the Business Continuity Planning SME in organising the projects' status, tracking and reporting how things look. The hiring manager needs to know simply where we're at.

In full:

• The Project Manager is responsible for managing, leading, controlling, and supporting the project team toward a successful project outcome (one that achieves the stated benefits for the project) within the appropriate time, cost and quality criteria.
• Adhering to all Cyber standards and procedures as determined by the Steering Committee and Programme Board, the Project Manager delivers the agreed project/s from initiation to completion.
• To work with operational colleagues to close out fixes and handover
• Liaise with third party support providers to ensure transition to BAU maintenance
• This specific project manager is required to install the structure into an established team to ensure all the outputs are co-ordinated and prioritised to achieve the regulator commitments
• Working alongside the SME, the project manager will take over the ownership of outputs and all the governance responsibility and key stakeholder relationship

Key accountabilities:

• Maintaining documentation as required to ensure compliance with relevant policies and regulatory requirements
• Work with IT and Security as required to deliver all relevant IT components and any IT relevant processes are adhered to
• Ensure the Project team are integrated and fully understand the Delivery Process within the Cyber Programme
• Work with the Programme Management Team to develop and agree the overall direction and integrity of the project
• Provide effective leadership to the project team, ensuring that team members are supported, motivated and developing their skills and experience
• Ensure all stakeholders including client, business management, users, staff, operational and engineers,
• IT, Security (as required) fully understand the objectives and scope of the project and are clear in their expectations of the project
• Effectively estimate and monitor project tasks, costs, time scales, resource requirements and finances for the successful completion of the project. Appropriate intervention and management where these deviate from agreed tolerances complying with governance, business sanctioning authorities and finance procedures as required
• Management of effective change control procedures ensuring formal approval for any changes to the approved scope and documented
• Manage the production of the required deliverables of the project and ensuring appropriate review process is in place and approvals are obtained
• Prepare and maintain project, stage, exception and quality plans and track activities against these plans. Provide regular and accurate reports to the Programme Board as required
• Identify, assess and manage the risks, assumptions, issues and decisions (RAID) to the success of the project, including developing effective mitigation where required
• Ensure the project is formally closed and documented. Lessons learnt are captured and the projects status and reports are updated
• Manage any handover/transition as required to Business as Usual (BAU) as per the scope/objectives of the project

Knowledge and experience:

• Experience of managing complex projects with a high volume of outputs
• Well organised and metric focused
• Experience in utilities sector with infrastructure exposure
• Desirable experience of working with business continuity and document artefact production projects
• Has proven leadership, stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills
• A good track record of delivering complex projects

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

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