Project Manager

Cambridge County Council; Alconbury; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Flexible bank holidays

Additional AVCs for pension

Development opportunities

Volunteer hours

IDEAL network

Employee Recognition Awards

Discounts via Cambs Rewards

Car lease / Cycle to Work schemes

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking an experienced project manager to lead day-to-day management of large-scale and complex projects, establishing teams and ensuring on-time delivery with quality controls.

You will manage risks, dependencies, budgets and reporting for governance, coordinating with Finance, IT, HR, Legal and other services while engaging stakeholders to drive successful change.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing large-scale projects with delivery focus.
• Ability to coordinate resources, risks and reporting for governance.
• Strong communication, planning and organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day management of large-scale and/or complex projects with milestones and delivery controls.
• Identify, manage and escalate project risks, issues, dependencies and constraints.
• Establish and lead project teams, providing guidance to support successful delivery.
• Produce clear, timely reporting for programme governance, including progress and pressures.
• Use project planning tools to manage delivery and support decision making.
• Coordinate with Finance, IT, HR, Legal, Procurement and Learning & Development to scope work and resources.
• Develop communications plans to engage stakeholders and users throughout the lifecycle.
• Ensure projects meet user needs by seeking input from stakeholders and enabling business change.
• Support project closure, including lessons learned and handover to BAU.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Budget monitoring

Change management

Job description

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

What will you be doing?

• Lead the day-to-day management of large-scale and/or complex projects, including plans, milestones, progress,quality and delivery controls.
• Identify,manage and escalation project risks, issues,dependencies and constraints, ensuring the right level of oversight is maintained.
• Establish and lead project teams,providing project management advice,guidance and challenge to support successful delivery.
• Produce clear and timely reporting for programme governance, including analysis of progress, delivery confidence,expenditure and emerging pressures.
• Use project portfolio and planning tools to manage project delivery, monitor activity and support effective decision making.
• Work with services, partners and corporate support functions including Finance, IT, HR, Legal, Procurement, Communications,and Learning and Development to scope work and agree resource requirements.
• Develop and maintain communicationsplans that support engagement with stakeholders, partners,suppliersand users throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure projects meet user and service needs by actively seeking input from stakeholders and supporting effective business change.
• Support project closure, including documentation, lessons learned and successful handover into business as usual.

About you

You will be an experienced project manager with a strong understanding of project and change management methodologies, tools and techniques, and the ability to apply these in a complex organisational environment. You will bring proven experience of managing projects from initiation through to delivery, coordinating resources, risk management, budget monitoring and delivering sustainable service improvements.

You will be confident working across organisational boundaries, able to build strong professional relationships and influence a wide range of stakeholders. You will be comfortable analysing complex information, translating ideas into practical plans, andprovidingclear advice and reporting to support good decision making.

You will have excellent communication, planning and organisational skills, with high standards of accuracy and the ability to work to tight deadlines. You will be resilient, collaborative and proactive, with the confidence to constructively challenge, hold others to account and support colleagues to deliver their best.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers