Project/programme Manager

3 days ago

London, United Kingdom Capita Full time

Join us as a Project/Programme Manager with the Bank of England
(London, Full-time, Permanent)

ABOUT CAPITA
At Capita, we support clients across a range of sectors, including local Government, central Government, Education, Transport, Health, Life and Pensions, Insurance, Banking, and other private sector organisations. We support with expertise applied by the talentacross our business in combination with technology, insight, and analytics to keep our clients ahead of change, sharper than competitors and more efficient than ever - and we always need new talent to help us achieve our goals.

BANK OF ENGLAND - PROJECT & PROGRAMMES DIVISION
The Projects and Programmes Division is responsible for all aspects of Bank of England’s programme and project delivery, in line with the Bank’s strategic priorities. This is achieved through effective central oversight of the Bank’s change portfolio, supportedby professional management of significant business change initiatives to ensure successful delivery. The portfolio covers all types of projects from technical IT infrastructure projects, through the development and introduction of new business systems (includingfinancial, risk, banking, and data systems), to projects focused on business change and/or policy development

ABOUT THE ROLE

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
The Project Manager will be assigned to deliver a change initiative and will need to understand the wider objectives of their project, demonstrate credibility in that field and be able to influence others. They must be able to develop and maintain effectiveworking relationships with senior managers, the programme office, the wider project, and portfolio teams, and third parties.
Securing the appropriate resources for the project and project team mobilisation and then directing and motivating the project team
Establishing appropriate governance arrangements including the Project Board
Detailed planning incorporating all external dependencies
Management of the project delivery using a rigorous stage gate methodology (including the definition and execution of test plans, change configuration and service introduction)
Proactively monitoring the project’s overall progress, resolving issues, and initiating corrective action as appropriate
Managing all aspects of RAID (risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptions) including the development of contingency plans
The role has a broad responsibility to work across the Programme Office, Technology and Business divisions to ensure that the solutions delivered can achieve the benefits defined in the original business case working within the project time, cost, and qualityconstraints.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA
- A track record of successful project delivery throughout the entire project lifecycle
- Specialist in all aspects of project management including project planning, estimating, budgetary control and RAID management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies), business change management and embedding change within an organisation
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Capable of innovative thinking and able to influence stakeholders within the business to adopt new approaches and ways of working
- Strong organisation skills
- Able to use judgement and provide sound justification for decisions, tailoring approach to delivery based on experience
- Able to work collaboratively across an organisation, building a network of contacts both internally and externally
- Clear communication skills (verbal and written); able to represent the project at governance forums or Boards
- Business change management experience gained from successfully managing the organisational, cultural and stakeholder challenges of a transformation project.

Desirable
- Experience of successful delivery of regulatory projects
- A recognised project or programme management qualification e.g., Prince 2, MSP, APMP or PMP.
- Experience of managing projects spanning multiple business areas within an organisation
- Experience of delivering projects within the Financial Services sector
- Experience of running agile and waterfall projects and understanding both methodologies can effectively work together on a programme

PLEASE NOTE, CANDIDATES MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR SECURITY CLEARANCE

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