Project Manager
4 days ago
Project Manager - 18 month contract
Fixed Term
Full Time, 37 hours per week
Up to £47,390 per annum
Location: Chelmsford / Remote Working
The Council have several innovative and exciting projects to be delivered and require experienced professionals to bring these to fruition. The following are just a small selection of current / upcoming projects to give you an idea of the type of thing thisaward-winning team get up to.
- Climate Focus Action - To help Essex move to becoming a net zero carbon county.
- Highways Infrastructure and Planning Solution - Find a replacement for the Strategic Development database, migrate users and data to it and close down the old database.
- Integrated Waste Handling Contract - transition of our Waste service from delivery by a 3rd party supplier to being delivered in house.
- Library Management System - deliver and implement the new Library Management system which will also improve the customer experience and will increase their access to library stock.
You will be accountable for managing projects which contribute to the delivery of ECC's strategic aims. The Project Manager is responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of projects to ensure project objectives are clearly defined and can be deliveredwithin the agreed timelines.
As an exemplary and experienced manager familiar with working in a complex project environment this role is key in ensuring a robust project infrastructure is in place underpinned by governance and assurance processes. Influencing and working with senior stakeholdersto ensure agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised.
You'll be joining an award-winning team, recognised in the recent APM Project Management Awards, winning 'Contribution to Project Management award: Not-for-profit 2021'.
You can find out more more about this and the teams achievements in our blog.
Accountabilities
Responsible for managing a project, which contributes to ECC's strategic aims, to deliver agreed outcomes within time and cost constraints.
Responsible for undertaking day to day management of both the project and the project team.
Responsible for ensuring a robust business case has been agreed ensuring expertise and specialist knowledge has contributed to the development of the business case in order to align project deliverables to the organisation's expectations.
Responsible for developing and monitoring the project progress to ensure this stays within the agreed budget. Set out resource requirements in order to be prioritised by the Portfolio/Programme Manager.
Responsible for managing, leading and motivating a team and ensuring current capability is matched against project requirements. This incorporates support and coaching for individuals and the team, as appropriate, in order to develop a high performing team.
Responsible for ensuring agreement with customers of quantified benefits to be realised & metrics required to monitor impact. Designing and actively managing the project plan to ensure the outcomes are achieved.
Responsible for highlighting project risks and issues and ways in which these can be mitigated and escalated as appropriate.
Responsible for ensuring effective Change Management processes are in place and changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders are documented.
Responsible for ensuring an effective governance and assurance framework is in place to support decision making and ensure regular reporting on progress through pro-active engagement with project sponsors. Work collaboratively with and manage internal stakeholderrelationships together with external partners.
Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area, such as, APM practitioner or Prince 2.
Evidence of having successfully completed numerous projects and experienced contributing to a range of other projects and/or programmes.
Experience of working with a diverse range of individuals at different levels within a complex organisation and engaging with them, finding ways to overcome obstacles.
Experience of working within or knowledge of the public sector is an advantage.
Good management skills in leading and managing a team and evidence of developing others.
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