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Digital Project Manager
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Digital Project Manager
Digital & Technology Project Manager – National Role
About the Role
The post holder is responsible for leading and managing Digital & Technology projects and the project team on a daily basis. This includes defining objectives and ensuring accurate delivery within agreed timeframes, budgets, and quality constraints.
A key part of the role involves project governance, working with stakeholders, and utilising generation’s PPM tool to ensure transparency, benefit realisation, and appropriate governance. Projects may employ waterfall, agile, or hybrid methodologies, tailored to meet business needs.Projects will use Verto (Agency’s PPM tool) in combination with Jira and Confluence for agile delivery.
About the Client
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
The MHRA’s mission is to enhance and improve public health by ensuring the safe, effective, and high-quality regulation of medicines and medical devices, supported by science and innovation.
Digital and Technology Group (DTG)
- Establishes and maintains an optimised IT infrastructure.
- Maximises secure data usage to enable scientists, inspectors, and the Agency to deliver world-class services improving patient outcomes.
- Played a critical role in accelerating COVID-19 vaccine approvals in 2020.
- Led UK’s post-Brexit medicines/device regulatory systems development.
- Delivers holistic, customer-focused transformation by combining:
- Digital transformation, data management, Agile delivery, business process design, product management, and cultural change.
DTG is committed to becoming one of the world’s most digitally advanced medical regulators. The Delivery Group function embeds this mission by providing a centre of excellence for delivering minimum viable products (MVPs) and ongoing improvements throughout the product lifecycle.
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Description
The Project Manager will:
- Lead end-to-end project delivery, ensuring clarity on objectives and accountability within budgets, timelines, and quality.
- Manage project governance, stakeholders, and risk assurance to align with Agency policies and PM frameworks.
- Apply agile/waterfall methodologies to suit project needs, leveraging toolsets (e.g., Verto, Jira, Confluence) for tracking and collaboration.
- Monitor financial forecasting, budget adherence, and benefit realisation to support reporting and decision-making.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across DTG, balancing operational, technical, and business priorities.
Person Specification
Essential Experience
- Proven experience managing full-cycle digital & IT projects across complex frameworks (benefits, governance, risk, and benefits realisation).
- Ability to set up governance culture, ensuring transparent risk reporting and assurance delivery to senior management/boards.
- Expertise in financial planning, budget management, and benefit forecasting.
Desirable Qualifications & Certifications
- Gov.UK (GDS) Technical & Service Standards familiarity.
- Experience with the Government Project Delivery Standard (sets expectations for portfolio/ programme/project alignment to national frameworks).
- One or more project management qualifications (mandatory or desired):
- Prince2 Practitioner (with Agile)
- Agile project management practitioner
- APM Practitioner or Registered Project Professional
- or relevant degree equivalent qualification
Behaviours & Skills (Assessed via Civil Service Success Profiles)
| Criteria | Method |
|---|---|
| Leadership | (Interview: I) Demonstrating ability to guide teams and align stakeholders. |
| Communicating & Influencing | (Interview: I) Ability to clarify complex technical concepts for decision-making. |
| Working Together | (Interview: I) Collaborating effectively across multiple departments. |
| Delivering at Pace | (Interview: I) Maintaining performance under tight deadlines. |
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Additional Competency Requirements (Application & Interview):
- End-to-end digital & IT project experience (mandatory).
- Governance, risk management, and financial oversight (mandatory).
- Familiarity with Government Project Delivery Standards (desirable).
Job Offer
Contract: Permanent (Civil Service Contract) Grade: National Grade 7 Salary: £57,028 - £64,672 (pro-rata for part-time). Working Arrangement: Hybrid Office / 3 days per week office attendance. Benefits:
- Civil Service pension scheme.
- Range of additional employee benefits (subject to DHSC standard offerings).
Application Process
- Closing Date: 13th July 2026
- Shortlisting begins: 20th July 2026
- Interviews: from 27th July 2026.
The MHRA follows the Civil Service Diversity Code, inviting discability-related adjustment requests during application. For oversubscribed roles, initial filtering will focus on end-to-end digital project experience per best-practice guidance. Applications reviewed against competency-based criteria.
Find further outlines on competencies and application procedures in the digital job posting.
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