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Senior Project Manager – Public Sector
📍 Manchester - hybrid working
💷 Up to £445 per day - inside IR35
🔐 Must be eligible to undergo SC Clearance - see below for requirements
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to support a major UK government department delivering a complex programme focused on counter-fraud, compliance and debt. This is a delivery-focused role requiring someone who can take loosely defined requirements—often from a blank starting point—and turn them into clear, practical delivery plans. Projects may involve information-source access, solution design, complex network dependencies and bespoke hardware requirements.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead multiple complex projects and requirements concurrently in a fast-paced environment.
- Work with business stakeholders to define, challenge and validate requirements.
- Develop delivery plans that balance pace, value, quality and risk.
- Coordinate stakeholders across architecture, security, networks, commercial, finance and digital workplace teams.
- Engage with other government departments, law-enforcement bodies, external providers and suppliers.
- Identify risks, dependencies and blockers, taking action or escalating quickly when required.
- Support procurement activity and manage commercial and supplier relationships.
- Help teams learn from delivery challenges by identifying recurring issues and improvement opportunities.
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We’re looking for someone with:
- Strong experience delivering complex technology or digital projects.
- A track record of managing several priorities or projects simultaneously.
- Excellent stakeholder management across large, complex organisations.
- Experience taking unclear requirements and shaping them into deliverable solutions.
- Good knowledge of project management tools and techniques, with the judgement to apply the right approach.
- Strong risk, issue, dependency and delivery planning capability.
- Experience of procurement, commercial processes and supplier management.
- The ability to adapt quickly as priorities and delivery conditions change.
- Previous public-sector or government experience would be advantageous.
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SC Clearance requirements:
- Must have lived and worked in the UK for the past 5 years, with no longer than 30 days out of the country at one time in the past 5 years
- Pass a criminal records check
- Pass a financial check
- Pass employment reference checks
If you’re a delivery-focused Senior Project Manager who is comfortable navigating complexity and bringing structure to ambiguous requirements, please apply for more information.
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