Vacancy Information
Division / Department - Corporate Development
Grade - Band 2
Status - Full Time
Contract Type - Fixed Term Contract
Salary Grade Range - £36,217 - £54,323
Working Hours - 36.0 Hours per Week
The starting salary for this role will usually be at the bottom of the salary range and will be pro-rata if the working hours are less than full time.
The Role
The successful candidate will have the potential to work at Surrey or Sussex Police Headquarters.
The Project Manager will be responsible for supporting or managing delivery of the SharePoint project and Intranet development and is accountable for their successful delivery. Coordinates time, budget, and resources and delegates tasks across the teams.
To provide a range of services including project management, authoritative advice, and consultancy to business leads across the organisation.
Manage the projects, including agreeing and monitoring key deliverables and milestones, establishing resource requirements, identifying and managing risks and reporting progress to stakeholders as required.
The Project Manager is also to undertake project health checks and Post Implementation Reviews (PIR) if required.
Key Responsibilities
Responsible for managing and delivering SharePoint Project and Intranet Development, including agreeing and monitoring key deliverables and milestones, establishing resource requirements, identifying and managing risks and reporting progress to stakeholders as required.
Responsible for ensuring the project board and the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) and Business Leads are fully aware of the progress against the plan, ensuring that risks, issues and any deviations or changes which could result in the programme failing to deliver against its objectives are escalated.
Identify, document, evaluate risks and issues associated with the delivery of the project, in accordance with the force risk & issue management methodology, ensuring an appropriate risk management strategy is in place, recommending appropriate risk responses and issue mitigation plans to the SRO/project board, and that these are escalated to the force level governance boards as appropriate.
Make recommendations to the SRO on the approximate governance structure for the project, including boards, products and information, and support them in putting that in place and ensuring it operates effectively. Ensure that programme and project boards are held regularly and issues/risks are escalated as necessary to the Change Board where appropriate.
Lead, task, develop, motivate and manage a team of project officers and other project management staff as appropriate to ensure that they are equipped to deliver against objectives, and held accountable for delivering against their responsibilities
Manage the resourcing, tasking and co-ordination of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects to time, cost and quality.
Provide advice, guidance and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required.
Undertake other duties appropriate to the rank and character of work as may be reasonably required, including specific duties of a similar or lesser graded post
Skills & Experience
• Degree qualified, or equivalent by experiencel or able to demonstrate proven work experience in Project Management
• Prince 2 Practioners qualification or proven experience in delivering programme/ project management.
• Certified in MS Office Suite in addition to specialised applications such as Visio, and Project or can demonstrate competence in using these applications.
• Experience of successfully delivering a range of projects in a business improvement context
• Proven consulting skills to understand client requirements to identify business change opportunities and tailor solutions to their needs.
• The ability to influence and build effective working relationships at all levels of the organisation, and in particular the ability to provide credible advice to, and influence SROs and senior project stakeholders.
• Commercial acumen and an understanding of cost benefit analysis.
• Has the ability to work on own initiate, to prioritise and respond flexibly to rapidly changing demands when under pressure.
• Problem solving skills, including the analysis and interpretation of data with the capacity to devise and implement solutions.
• Influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management experience.
• Strong attention to detail
• Well-developed communication skills both written and verbal to produce clear and concise reports with the ability to present effectively to senior managers and colleagues at all levels of the organisation
• Experience of line management.
• Knowledge of project management and business change best practice.
Has the ability to work on own initiate, to prioritise and respond flexibly to rapidly changing demands when under pressure.
Further Information
Helen Bayliss - Head of Service Quality
Helen.Bayliss@Surrey.pnn.police.uk
Additional Information
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This post is being advertised in parallel with Force redeployment processes. Any redeployees who are identified will be given preference. This may result in the post being withdrawn at any point during the recruitment process.
If you are an internal candidate looking to apply for this role, please ensure that you discuss your application with your line manager before submitting an application. If you are conditionally offered the role your attendance record and any reasonable adjustments already in place will be discussed with yourself and your current line manager.
Please note that not all jobs are available for internal candidates across both Forces, the current agreed recruitment principles are;
- vacancies in collaborated units are available to all officers and staff across both Forces
- vacancies in non-collaborated units are only available to officers and staff within the Force with the vacancy unless it is advertised externally. If the vacancy is advertised externally and an officer or member of staff from the other Force is success it will result in a transfer of employment.
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