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Description
The Role
This is a temporary Senior Project Manager role to lead in the successful delivery of business transformation and process change to support our statutory highways obligations and compliance with legislation. It sits within the Transport Delivery team, but works with Subject Matter Experts across the whole Transport Service.
Your role will be to successfully project manage a business change process from inception through to completion, to challenging timescales. You will work closely with officers, contractors and elected members to ensure that the highest standards are achieved within the constraints of time and budget.
You may be required to manage some of the professional based framework contracts that the Council operates.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Project Management:
- To project manage a business transformation and process change, to support the Transport Service to meet legislative requirements in relation to Digital TROs and Moving Traffic Offences.
- To support and lead a series of live projects to transform service delivery and develop a self-sufficient organisation.
- Work to recognised project management standards following Government guidance and to the council's own project management requirements.
- Direct and monitor staff in the completion of projects and products.
- Manage external consultants, as well as project staff, to ensure targets are achieved.
Financial Control:
- Prepare estimates, monitor and review project costs to ensure completion within agreed budgets.
- Achieve required level of quality and ensure value for money.
- Agree final measures and payments.
Scheme Implementation and Delivery:
- To provide successful project management throughout the life of a project from inception to implementation.
- Manage the preparation and assessment of tenders and contract documents with support from legal, procurement, finance, and technical teams.
- To appoint and manage contractors where required.
- Produce accurately maintain PID (mandate, business case, programme, risk register, budget etc.).
- Produce own Project Initiation Documentation (PID) working closely with relevant technical teams.
Communication:
- To represent the team at meetings; assist carry out consultations on scheme proposals; advise members as necessary.
- Liaise with clients; project team; consultants; general public.
- Prepare reports including regular reports for Project Boards as required.
- Liaise with other departments such as Highways Maintenance PFI team ensuring seamless interlinking with existing highway network.
- Maintain strong links with internal/external stakeholders such as funders/government departments ensuring design/construction works are on programme/budget.
Training:
- Maintain personal technical expertise in new methods/technologies
- Encourage development among junior managers through effective supervision/allocation of work.
Who is The Person?
You need to be/have:
* Educated at HND or degree standard in relevant subject.
* An appropriate professional project management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2 practitioner level) & membership in an appropriate professional body (e.g., APM) or demonstrated performance over substantial period at this level.
* Extensive/relevant post-graduate experience.
* Ability managing business transformation/process change projects from initiation through successful completion
* Good experience contracts
* Ability leading small teams through delegation/management
* Excellent commercial awareness/proven success working strict budgetary controls including analysis/interpreting financial information
* Good analytical/problem-solving skills prioritising workload effectively managing time efficiently responding positively workload pressures
* Relevant experience working stakeholders/contractors/agencies excellent interpersonal communication/written skills dealing effectively staff levels councillors/general public nontechnical level
* Experience preparing reports/correspondence using research/information gathering techniques
 * Awareness relevant legislation/regulatory framework environmental issues desirable
 * Knowledge familiarity Microsoft Office applications including Microsoft Project