Junior IT Project Delivery Manager

About this job

We have an exciting secondment opportunity for a motivated and highly driven Junior Project Manager to join our friendly and high performing PMO team on a secondment basis for a period of 12 months. You will assist and lead on both individual IT projects, stages of a larger project, or work streams of a programme with dependencies on other projects within the programme.

Special requirements for this post

• Proven knowledge, understanding and experience of working within an IT Projects environment.
• Recognised Project Management methodology qualification (Prince2, Agile, PMI, etc.), or willingness to work towards .
• Ability to travel to other locations as required.

About you

You will be a positive self-starter with experience working within a pivotal role in an IT project management environment. With knowledge of project planning, implementation and best practice methodologies, you will also have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to build effective relationships with people from at all levels and backgrounds. Motivated to deliver, you will have:
• Experience managing and/or assisting with multiple IT technical projects from the beginning to end.
• Ability to prioritise conflicting schedules, working closely with project teams to ensure commitments and deadlines are met.
• Strong people skills, with experience in building and maintaining strong working relationships.
• Demonstrable experience of high-level analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead project team meetings, noting actions and tracking to completion.
• Experience writing complex project related reports.
• Knowledge of Council policies, procedures and visions. Our DRIVE values are the guiding principles and standards that we want every employee to bring to their working life every day. No matter what job you do, every single one of us is here to help improve the borough and residents should be driving everything that we do, including how you engage with you colleagues, your team, peers, external parties etc. Our DRIVE values are:
• Deliver the best outcomes for residents whenever we can.
• Respond to residents' needs in a helpful and friendly way.
• Inspire others and ourselves to achieve their best.
• Value residents when making decisions.
• Engage with residents and colleagues in the best way we can

About us

Why work for us? Over the past four years the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham have undertaken an ambitious Transformation Programme and have built a new kind of council, capable of delivering real change for the community in the twenty-first century. These changes have resulted in us winning the LGC Driving Growth award as well as LGC Entrepreneurial Council of the Year 2019. We are also proud of other accreditations and accolades, to include LGC Council of the Year 2018, Investors in People Gold accreditation, Disability confident employer. The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is a diverse borough that prides itself on tackling the root causes of the challenges facing our residents. With a strong ethos of leaving no one behind we are innovative and forward looking. This is an exciting time to join LBBD as we face many challenges caused by changes in legislation, the cost-of-living crisis and coming out of the pandemic. LBBD is a supportive inclusive employer looking to bring out the best in our staff. We offer a range of benefits including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Flexible working.
• Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Learning and development.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Employee support and networking groups.
• Eating out, holiday and cinema discount schemes.
• Health plans.