• Support the Senior Leadership Team on a day-to-day basis alongside other Business Support Officers.
• Delegate tasks where appropriate and make sure workload is shared amongst the team
• Follow support systems and processes
• Work as a team to handle difficult situations and responses to complex issues
• Understand when to escalate problems when necessary
• Ensure the VIP function runs effectively and follows procedures, escalate to management when appropriate
• Communicate with Chief Executive, Executive Directors, Directors and Heads of Service effectively to acquire urgent responses and build a good rapport with internal services

In addition to the skills knowledge and experience described above, you may be required to undertake a lower graded role as appropriate.

Due to the changing nature of the business, this job description serves as a framework to outline the main areas of responsibility. It is not intended to be either prescriptive or exhaustive and will inevitably change. You may be required to undertake other activities of a similar nature that fall within the remit of your area of work, as directed by service management, and this may entail working from other locations.

Senior Digital Project Manager: Pay up to £63,517 plus up to 27% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

• Are you an experienced Digital Project Manager?
• Do you want to manage large scale projects that will improve services for millions of people
• Do you want career opportunities, learning and development that works for you, and great work life balance?

We want a Senior Digital Project Manager to join our DWP Digital team.

You'll be part a supportive and expert project delivery community, and contribute to one of the biggest digital transformations around.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users.

Our Digital Project Managers use a range of skills and methodologies to manage multi-functional delivery teams.

We deliver change, maintain our core applications and build new services that help DWP users get support, find jobs, and access payments.

The scale of what we do is outstanding, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

Delivery. Work. Projects.

As a Senior Digital Project Manager you will lead the end-to-end delivery of large scale and complex digital change projects.

One of the great things in DWP is the scale and breadth of activity we're taking on. It is massive. This is a career path with no dead ends.

There is a real variety of projects and teams who want your coaching, leadership and empowerment in DWP and across the civil service. This is a career path with no dead ends.

You'll manage a varied stakeholder environment and lead your project team, setting the pace for delivery. You'll work with internal teams and external suppliers to deliver successfully.

You will manage appropriate governance and reporting, to Digital Directors - communicating and taking ownership of complex issues and influencing decisions that require board level approval.

We're a continuous learning organisation. You'll take responsibility for your own learning and development, especially in project management practice, digital frameworks and technologies and agile ways of working.

You'll also coach and mentor your team and the wider delivery community to build capability and set standards for Project Management in the public sector.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• Experience of taking full responsibility for the definition, documentation and successful completion of large-scale complex projects, utilising internal and external suppliers
• You ensure project control, change control, risk management and testing processes are maintained, responding to what the data is telling them appropriately.
• You can prioritise the most important or highest value tasks, using data to inform planning decisions and managing complex internal and external dependencies
• Ability to communicate with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust.
• Able to explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand and influence Senior level decision making
• Experience in identifying appropriate development for both themselves, and their team to improve the delivery outcome.

Details. Wages. Perks.

You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs either in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with some time in the office and some time working at home.

In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay of up to £63,517.

You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 27.9%.

You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days (rising to 31 days over time) plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
• Family-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Sports and social activities
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

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Summary

Job Description for Project Controls Lead:

NNL is where your project management helps deliver our purpose. As part of our Project Management Authority, you'll play a critical role in managing projects that deliver nuclear science to benefit society. Your project management skills and attention to detail will enable industry-leading scientists, engineers and analysts to work together to deliver unique projects using cutting edge technology. It's a challenging role but it's an opportunity to grow, adapt and develop new skills in a fast-moving area.

The NNL PMO team are looking for an individual who will be accountable for leading and managing the day-to-day operations, development, and support the growth of the Project Controls team. Responsible for the provision of Project Controls support services on NNL projects, and programmes. The role will include stakeholder interface with the Project Management Authority, to ensure smooth transition of information is supplied to establish effective reporting.

Main Responsibilities

Main Responsibilities for Project Controls Lead:

• Line management responsibility within the Preston Project Controls team, providing day-to-day leadership, mentoring and support as required ensuring that the portfolio PC services are being effectively discharged.
• Support the development and embed a Project Controls framework (aligned to the UK PMA and Delivery Operations delivery strategies) and drive the correct behaviours across the PC team; to maintain an effective Project Controls service to the NNL PM community.
• Oversee, motivate and monitor the performance of the Project Controls team, working with the 'senior' team to identify capability improvement and team development opportunities, addressing any performance gaps as required.
• Lead on Functional continuous improvement activities / initiatives relating to Project Controls operational governance procedures, processes, tools and systems.
• Attendance at, and provision of input into, Project Management Authority (PMO) Senior level management review meetings, and responsibility for the management of Project Controls related actions arising.
• Support and manage the Project Controls framework, systems and resources to deliver an effective cost control and reporting service to Project Managers and Sponsors within the portfolio.
• Provide senior-level Project Controls oversight on more complex NNL projects / programmes (Class 3 &4) and Risk Reviews / workshops as required, providing assistance to Project Managers as required to discharge their duties; leading on schedule risk analysis activities, and development of risk mitigation strategies to increase the chances of successful project outcomes.
• Ensure the generation of fully detailed project forecast cost estimates, work breakdown structures (WBS), and 'quantity tracking' tools / mechanisms, to enable projects to be delivered within a robust project controls framework.
• Implement effective project control techniques (in line with best practice), including where appropriate monitoring of 'earned value'; cost and schedule variance; estimates at completion (EACs); critical path analysis, and risk, to deliver projects effectively.
• Prepare, monitor and forecast expenditure profiles and provide accruals where needed.
• Prepare cost and progress reports, including earned value analysis, identifying critical areas and trends and recommend recovery options; ensuring the accuracy of data.
• Communicate and report any current and potential issues to the Project Manager and key stakeholders (as required).

Ideal Candidate

Essential Criteria for Project Controls Lead:

• Demonstrable experience of senior line management / leadership responsibility in a Project Controls delivery environment.
• Demonstrable experience of successfully delivering / leading Senior Project Controls services on complex projects / programmes / portfolios.
• Experience of involvement in strategic-level discussions and development of Functional / service delivery strategies.
• Ability to confidently present and converse at all level of seniority within organisations.
• Commercial awareness to support the Defence Portfolio.
• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years' worth of UK residency).

Desirable Criteria for Project Controls Lead:

• A relevant qualification associated with one of the cost engineering / project controls professional bodies, e.g. AACE, APM, APMG International, ACostE, ECITB, and PMI.
• Demonstrable experience of developing systems of work; governance and / or delivery processes, tools & systems.
• Good level of understanding of schedule risk analysis techniques and interpretation of output data, and development of mitigation / recovery strategies.