Project Manager

Kent County Council; Maidstone; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Kent County Council seeks a motivated Project Manager to join the Capital Projects Team, delivering education and corporate building projects across the county. You will plan, initiate, execute and close projects in line with policies, ensuring stakeholder engagement and exemplary communication throughout.

This customer-facing role requires effective use of project management methodologies, strong governance, and collaboration across directorates and partners to ensure on-time, within-scope

Qualifications

• Experience delivering infrastructure or education/corporate building projects.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and communicate effectively with multiple directorates.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from inception to completion ensuring quality, time and budget targets.
• Apply recognised project management methodologies to deliver within governance frameworks.
• Collaborate with directorates and partner agencies to meet objectives.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Tools

PRINCE2

Job description

The Capital and Strategic Programmes Team are responsible for delivering a multitude of infrastructure projects across Kent. We are seeking a highly motivated Project Manager to join our Capital Projects Team to deliver projects within our education and corporate building portfolio. As a Project Manager you will play a crucial role in ensuring the successful planning, execution, and completion of key initiatives that support the Local Authorities main objectives.

In your role, you will be instrumental in providing a high-quality service managing the projects from inception through to completion ensuring stakeholder and communication management is exemplary. The role requires the successful candidate to manage and deliver projects both within and across Directorates and partnership agencies, utilising recognised project management methodologies to ensure that all projects are delivered effectively, to the required standard within the agreed deadlines and in accordance with existing and new Directorate and corporate policies and procedures.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.