Information Technology Project Manager

Delt Shared Services Ltd; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector support organization seeks an IT Project Manager to deliver business change and transformation projects primarily in Plymouth and Devon. Strong experience in managing IT projects is essential. The role offers hybrid working and requires interaction with senior stakeholders. A comprehensive benefits package includes generous holidays and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays

Up to 12 flex leave days a year

Flexible working opportunities

Matched contribution pension scheme up to 10%

Life assurance scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Performance Related Pay

Employee assistance programme supporting wellbeing

Qualifications

• Significant experience of delivering IT Projects is required.
• Strong communication skills for senior stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to manage all aspects of project management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a wide range of business change and transformation projects.
• Interact with a large and complex stakeholder community.
• React to customer needs and attend the Plymouth office if necessary.

Skills

Experience of delivering IT projects

Excellent communication skills

Ability to manage complexity

Portfolio management

Balancing time, quality, and risk

Tools

MS Project Professional

Job description

Overview

IT Project Manager

Salary up to £48,000 p.a.

12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Hybrid Opportunity - can be based from either Plymouth or Exeter

About Us

Delt is a commercial company owned by the public sector and working in the public interest. We deliver significant social-economic benefits to Plymouth, Devon and the wider South West peninsula, priding ourselves on fostering innovation, efficiency, and exceptional customer service. Our mission is to empower organisations to achieve more by providing them with the tools and support they need to thrive. At Delt, we are driven by our commitment to community, quality, and the continuous development of our people.

The Role

The Delt Project Management Office is committed to delivering a wide range of business change and transformation projects for our main clients, Plymouth City Council, NHS Devon Integrated Care Board and Devon NHS Partnership Trust. To achieve this, we need an IT Project Manager preferably with experience in the delivery of Infrastructure projects to join our PMO.

Our projects are predominately IT and therefore experience of working in an IT environment and delivering complex IT projects is essential, a basic working level knowledge of MS Project Professional is essential. The successful candidate will require limited mentoring from day 1, will be a confident communicator verbally and on paper and be able to evidence experience of interacting with senior stakeholders; working at pace; working closely with a large and complex stakeholder community, delivering business change and managing technical delivery.

Most of our work is delivered to customers in Plymouth and Devon. Whilst this role offers hybrid working project managers must be able to react to customers’ needs, which may mean attending our Plymouth office or visiting a site at short notice (less than 12 hours). Candidates should consider whether they would be able to satisfy this commitment before making an application.

Required Skills/Experience

• Experience of delivering IT projects.
• Excellent communications skills, the capability and confidence to be able to work with senior customers and a proven ability to manage complexity.
• Manage all aspects of project management in a Portfolio, Programme and Projects environment.
• An ability to balance time, quality, and risk to achieve maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and customer focus.

Our Offer

• Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
• Up to 12 flex leave days a year
• Flexible working including opportunities to work from home
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 10% of salary
• Life assurance scheme
• Opportunities to buy and sell leave
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Opportunities for training to be funded by Delt.
• EV salary sacrifice
• Performance Related Pay
• Employee assistance programme supporting mental and physical wellbeing

If you want to know about the total package we offer, please see our future employee page here https://deltservices.com/careers/

The urgent nature of this appointment means we are unable to consider VISA sponsorship at present.

Applicants who apply must have significant experience of delivering IT Projects.