Digital Project Manager, 12 Months, £600 per/day Inside IR35


Digital Project Manager

• Westminster, London - Remote working for the foreseeable
• 12 month contract
• £600 a day
• INSIDE IR35

Job overview

• Lead the ICT Transformation Work-stream of the WP&FM24 transformation project in conjunction with the Project Director to develop best in class WP&FM strategy.
• Act as a pivotal point of contact for the WP&FM Project on the all ICT related matters and liaise with other support functions.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders, internal and external.
• Alignment of the ICT solution to the wider DDTS, DgP&CS & SCAH programmes.

Key Role assignments

• Ensuring an appropriate project framework is in place, incorporating any government governance or milestones.
• Preparing project initiation documents or equivalent and other project related documents.
• Stakeholder management across the project/organisation/service providers/employees to ensure buy-in at all stages.
• Engage cross-functional teams appropriately and ensure represented within the project.
• Engage all stakeholders in the programme so that business changes land effectively into BAU through appropriate change management strategies.
• Creating the People Transformation Work-stream project plan and monitoring/reporting on progress.
• Define and own the People Transformation Work-stream project budget, monitoring expenditure and costs to ensure that the project is delivered in line with agreed budget.
• Define operational measures and targets that add value. Ensure that project outputs can deliver the defined benefit with owners identified to actively report on benefit realisation.
• All People Transformation Work-stream project level risks and issues appropriately identified, managed and escalated.
• Coordinating and directing internal user inputs.
• Manage the work-stream budget and alignment to the business governance requirements.
• Coordinating and ensuring the core ways of working and principles are adopted and implemented in the project delivery.
• Defining criteria for control and management of the project.
• Assisting the project teams/manager in the resolution of problems.
• Ensure the right number of appropriately skilled resources are in place to deliver.
• Design and implement strategies to ensure the culture is aligned to the new business model.
• Understand the organisation and the commercial context.

Person Specification

• Experienced HR Transformation Programme manager
• Must have experience with property technology especially CAFM/ Asset Management Platforms/API development/Microsoft stack
• Development of HR Transformation Strategy
• Cultural and organisation change with a hands-on delivery approach.
• A strong communicator. Experience in managing stakeholder relationships at all levels including external relationships with 3rd party suppliers and Trade Unions.
• Proven track record in programme/project delivery preferably in the public sector including managing organisational restructuring and Tupe.
• Target Operating Model Design and transitioning design to reality via effective cultural and people change management.
• Experience across the complete life cycle of Transformation projects/programmes, from concept to ongoing operations
• Business engagement - building trust by role-modelling ethical behaviour including being a trusted adviser, solution expert and project execution.
• Business acumen - understanding the organisation, the commercial context and the wider aspects of the project.
• Have strong personal impact and resilience being able to influence through an evidenced approach to assist stakeholders to make decisions for major changes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to understand, manage and communicate to multiple stakeholders often with opposing positions.
• Working and collaborating across boundaries, effectively and inclusively, to achieve positive outcomes.
• Ability to interpret and utilise complex and varied financial and commercial data.
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative within a team environment.
• Highly organised with an analytical approach and able to meet key project deadlines.

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