Senior Digital Project Manager

The Methodist Church in Britain; West Midlands; Remote; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Home or remote working

NHS People Promise and wellbeing focus

Reasonable adjustments where possible

Learning & OD development programs

Job summary

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust seeks a senior Project Manager to run technical projects and programmes for internal teams and customers. You will oversee budget and financial assurance across a portfolio, balancing risks, change and delivery to achieve patient-focused outcomes.

Flexible working arrangements, including home or remote working, are offered, with support for ongoing development through NHS Learning & OD.

Qualifications

• Must have degree-level education or equivalent with IT project management exposure.
• Significant project management experience with delivery of complex/large projects.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and PMO processes.

Responsibilities

• Run technical projects and programmes for internal teams and customers.
• Provide budget and financial assurance for the project portfolio, ensuring value for money.
• Manage and monitor project budgets, costs, expenditure and benefits.
• Manage and elevate risks, issues and changes to project delivery.
• Lead and motivate cross-functional teams across levels of the organisation.
• Assign and monitor work of technical personnel to keep projects on time and within budget.
• Evaluate complex situations using multiple information sources to validate and interpret.
• Create change management documentation, communication plans and training processes.
• Engage customers and project team members to ensure progress is understood at each stage.

Skills

Relationship building

Deadline driven

Forward planning

Technical to non-technical comms

Education

Degree-level education

Postgraduate IT project management

Tools

Microsoft Project

Visio

Job description

This senior post sits in the Infrastructure team at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder runs technical projects and programmes for internal teams and for customers, and holds budget and financial assurance across a portfolio of projects. The role combines leading cross-functional teams with managing risk, change and project budgets, and offers home or remote working alongside flexible working. Fit depends on significant project management experience and a degree-level or equivalent IT project management background.

What the job involves

• Run technical projects and programmes for internal teams and customers
• Provide budget and financial assurance for the project portfolio, ensuring value for money
• Manage and monitor individual project budgets, costs, expenditure and benefits
• Manage and elevate risks, issues and changes to project delivery
• Lead and motivate cross-functional teams and interact with all levels
• Assign and monitor the work of technical personnel to keep projects on time, within budget and aligned to business objectives
• Evaluate complex situations using multiple sources of information to validate and interpret
• Carry out analysis, planning, requirements documents, functional models, procedures and architectures
• Create a change management method, including documentation, communication plans and process training
• Engage customers and project team members in varied formats so progress is understood at each stage

Qualifications

• Project management qualification or equivalent experience
• Degree-level education or equivalent, with a postgraduate qualification or experience in an IT project management-related subject

Experience

• Significant project management experience, with evidence of delivering complex large projects
• Experience of line management and leading project teams
• Experience of leading business realisation with a clear focus on patient experience and outcomes
• Robust risk management experience
• Experience of succession planning and of assessing digital maturity within an organisation

Skills & knowledge

• Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with staff from a variety of backgrounds
• Ability to work to regular, tight deadlines
• Ability to forward plan
• Ability to communicate in both technical and non-technical language

Nice to have

• Significant experience of managing high-profile contentious projects within an Acute Trust
• Experience of working within a PMO and following PMO processes
• Excellent Microsoft Project and Visio skills
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

What’s offered

• Flexible working options
• Home or remote working
• Healthy work-life balance under the NHS People Promise
• Reasonable adjustments where possible
• Development opportunities through the Learning & OD Team, including communication, wellbeing, team development and cultural competency