Senior IT Project Manager

Initial 12 month contract

Remote Working - Travel to Leatherhead/London (If required for occasional days)

Outside IR35

Hourly Rates Negotiable

BPSS/CTC Security Clearance will be needed prior to starting this role, which is likely to take 6-8 weeks, so the start date for this position is likely to be September/October, depending on how long the clearance takes to achieve.

Essential - Cloud experience alongside Software and Large Programme exposure

The IT Senior Project Manager, who will report to the Programme Director, has a peer relationship with the Senior Transition Lead and Solution Lead, and manages the Project Coordinator

The role is for a disciplined, tech-savvy and proactive IT Senior Project Manager whose strengths are in detailed planning, plan execution, analysis, governance, senior stakeholder management. Managing multiple workstreams, project managers, ensuring delivery of multiple parallel critical paths.

Responsibilities

• The role holder will plan and deliver projects across workstreams, within the mobilisation Programme to fixed timelines.
• The role holder will support and drive all aspects of the project through the lifecycle, from definition through delivery to close, including schedule, budget, resource, quality, risks, issues, change and stakeholders.
• The role holder will be accountable for the use of standard project management products of plans, schedules, budgets, and reports for project delivery, ensuring transparency and accountability across projects and workstreams.
• The role holder will, assist the Programme Director in Programme-level planning, reporting or governance.
• The role holder will ensure quality of detailed plans and will be responsible for ensuring the critical paths of projects and workstreams, that plans are resourced adequately with realistic effort provisions, internal and external dependencies are clearly defined and managed, critical milestones are clearly defined and met.
• The role holder will ensure the managed delivery of the detailed plans across projects and workstreams – this will include but not be limited to smoothing and float management, deconfliction, critical path burn-down.
• The role holder will govern project delivery, including stakeholder reporting, change management, and issue resolution through structured frameworks.
• The role holder will be responsible for ensuring all Products defined in the plan are managed per the configuration management and change management processes, ensuring all Products go through proper review cycles with correct stakeholders to meet plan dates.
• The role holder will identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, proactively resolving challenges to ensure smooth project delivery across projects and workstreams.
• The role holder will work with third party Clients and Vendors enabling the delivery of projects through stakeholder engagement, building relationships, and facilitation of required delivery activities across all parties, ensuring mutual critical milestones are met.
• The role holder will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors, to ensure successful project execution.
• The role holder will ensure compliance with contractual obligations, industry regulations, and business policies, while continuously seeking process improvements.
• The role holder will lead lessons-learned initiatives to drive continuous improvement and innovation through the programme lifecycle.
• The role holder will assist Programme Director in Quality Gateway management, including preparing the gateway assessments and managing the gateway governance meetings, assessment issue and mitigations.
• The role holder will ensure communications and correspondence with internal teams, external suppliers, and client are frequent and support the progress of the overall plan.
• The role holder will ensure all documentation is stored and updated in the master document register as required.