Senior Digital Project Manager

DWP Digital; Blackpool; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

Join DWP Digital as a Senior Digital Project Manager to lead impactful digital transformations that enhance services for millions of people across the UK. You will manage complex projects, stakeholder relationships, and ensure successful delivery within a hybrid working environment. Enjoy competitive pay, a generous pension, and a supportive workplace culture that emphasizes work-life balance and professional development.

Benefits

28.97% employer pension contributions

26 to 31 days holiday plus public holidays

Flexible working hours

Volunteering and charitable giving opportunities

Discounts on shopping and outings

Interest-free loans for commuting

Professional development and coaching

Qualifications

• Experienced project manager with full responsibility for large-scale complex projects.
• Ability to manage complex external dependencies.
• Clear communication to influence decision-making at senior level.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale digital change in DWP.
• Manage project governance, risks, and issue resolution.
• Coach teams to improve delivery flow and maintain positive culture.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Communication

Risk Management

Change Control

Team Management

Job description

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Tech Talent Acquisition Partner at DWP Digital

Digital Project Manager

Pay of up to £66,058, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We are looking for a Senior Digital Project Managers to join DWP in our Working Age Services and Network Infrastructure Services. You'll lead our team as we deliver user-focused solutions and key welfare reforms for claimants, landlords, and DWP agents.

Our teams use fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, the problems we have to solve are rich and complex, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

• You're an experienced project manager with demonstrable history of taking full responsibility, for the definition, documentation and successful completion of a number of large-scale complex projects
• Those projects have used both internal and external suppliers.
• You make sure that effective project control, change control, risk management and testing processes are maintained, responding to what the data is telling them appropriately.
• Experience of managing complex external dependencies that have required significant planning and prioritising in order to ensure pace and quality of delivery is maintained
• You communicate with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust. Explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand and influence Senior level decision making.
• Experience in identifying appropriate development for both themselves and their team to improve the delivery.

You and your role

As an experienced Senior Digital Project Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale complex digital change in DWP.

You'll lead the team to ensure project controls are in place, managing plans, risks, issues and dependencies to effective resolution.

You'll manage appropriate governance and reporting to Digital Directors, communicating and taking ownership of resolving complex issues while influencing decisions that require board level approval.

You'll manage a varied stakeholder environment, setting the pace for delivery and working with internal teams and/or external suppliers to deliver successfully.

You'll manage team dynamics, coaching teams to improve flow, quality and ownership throughout the team. We're a friendly team, and everyone he is driven to deliver for our users, but you will also manage conflict and help maintain our positive team culture.

Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and sometime collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £66,058.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £16,094 per year.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days and rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women In IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable, so our application and selection process is just two stages:

• Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.
• Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering, Information Technology, and Product Management

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Media

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