Project Manager
Remote
Permanent - 37.5 hrs per week
We are specialists in technology - providing a comprehensive suite of talent and training services helping individuals and companies to be winners in the digital revolution. Over 290,000 people learned with us last year!
We deliver services to over 5,000 corporate clients, representing a significant portion of the FTSE 250. We have leading practices in agile, cyber security, cloud and DevOps - as well as many other technology specialisms.
We specialise in the people side of technology transformation - our training programmes help businesses to upskill or reskill their existing employees and our talent services are used to identify, recruit and skill-up diverse technology talent - we deliver 70% of the UK's cloud training and are a Microsoft Gold delivery partner.
Your Role:
This purpose of this hands on, highly operational, client focused role is to work alongside the Senior Project Manager to scope, plan and manage the successful delivery of large and complex face to face, virtual and digital learning and engagement programmes
Working on behalf of one of QA's key clients you will be responsible for ensuring that your programme achieves its objectives within agreed timescales and budget whilst ensuring that quality measures are continually adhered to.
Responsibilities:
- Manage operational risk within sensible parameters of QA Project and QA Business needs.
- Working alongside the Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for the successful delivery of large complex learning and engagement programmes in line with the plan and budget.
- Work closely with client Stakeholders and Solution Architect to scope the objectives, deliverables, timelines, dependencies, assumptions, risks and quality acceptance criteria.
- Support programme specific resourcing through clear role(s) definition, recruitment and quality assurance.
Skills & Qualification:
- Project Management experience is essential due to the scale and complexity of the programmes
- Fully familiar with project life cycle and methodologies and hold a Prince 2 Practitioner or similar industry recognised qualification
- Experience of complex scheduling
- Experience of resource management
- Experience of effectively managing or mitigating against risk
- Excellent document writing skills
- Stakeholder management at a senior level
- Our salaries are competitive and will be discussed as part of the selection process. What's in it for me?
On top of this, receive QA's outstanding benefits package:
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- 3 dedicated study days
- Access to 1500+ courses (worth up to £3K each!)
- Medicash - cashback for dentist/physio etc.
- Free virtual GP appointments
- 2 charity/volunteer days
- £500 referral scheme
- A superb Gymflex scheme (ask us about this!)
- Our own BenefitsHub to receive loads of discounts
Down time
Taking time for ourselves is so important these days which is why we dedicate some of our benefits to support your health & wellbeing. These include: 27 days holiday each year, holiday buying scheme, Medicash plan, Gympass, Cycle to Work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, and 2 days per year charity leave.
How we'll help with finance matters
In addition to pension, group income protection and life assurance, QA are offering you an annual pay review, access to our employee discounts benefit hub with hundreds of deals and savings on goods and experiences, season ticket loan, tech scheme and an employee referral scheme.
Personal growth
Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!
You'll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you'll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content from Circus Street and Cloud Academy on a variety of tech and business topics. Or perhaps you'd like to enrol on a Degree or Masters programme to enhance your skill set or learn new things.
Our people
We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment. We embrace diversity, welcome applications from all candidates and aim to support the career growth of everyone. This means no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity, beliefs, or sexual preference, or if you are disabled or a carer, we welcome you and the alternative perspectives you bring to our diverse family. We're proud of the progress we've achieved over the last few years to build an inclusive culture and celebrate our diversity - our rankings on The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List are a testament to this.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. All applicants with a disability who fulfil the role criteria will be progressed to the next stage of the process. Please let us know what reasonable adjustment, if any, you require.
If this is what you're looking for, here are the next steps:
Hit the apply button and register on our QA website to fill out our quick and easy application form. If you'd like to hear more about the role you can email me: - happy to help!
