Senior Digital Project Manager - CONTRACT - Inside IR35 - 9 month

Futureheads Recruitment | B Corp™; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Digital Project Manager for a public sector programme in Newcastle upon Tyne. In this role, you will coordinate multiple projects focused on tackling IT estate challenges using both agile and traditional methodologies. Ideal candidates should have proven experience in digital project delivery, strong stakeholder engagement, and a collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in digital project delivery roles, ideally at both project and programme levels.
• Experience working in hybrid environments, comfortable with waterfall delivery.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Supporting core team to deliver programme-level planning, tracking, and reporting.
• Facilitating coordination across delivery teams and managing interdependencies.
• Contributing to stakeholder governance and delivery dashboards.

Skills

Digital Project Delivery

Stakeholder Engagement

Agile Techniques

Communication

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Futureheads Recruitment | B Corp

Senior Digital Project Manager - Contract - Inside IR35 - 9 month - Newcastle

We’re on the lookout for a Senior Digital Project Manager to join a high-profile, public sector programme focused on reducing legacy technology risk across a large and complex IT estate. This is a contract role that offers the chance to operate at programme level, supporting core planning, oversight, reporting, and governance across 50+ tech debt reduction projects.

This isn’t your typical delivery role. You won’t be managing individual digital projects. Instead, you’ll play a key part in coordinating and enabling enterprise-wide delivery, working alongside the Programme Lead to build structure, remove blockers, and ensure teams have what they need to deliver confidently.

You’ll work in a hybrid delivery environment that’s mostly waterfall (given the need for full service readiness), but enhanced with agile ways of working like stand-ups, retros, and iterative planning.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting the core team to deliver programme-level planning, tracking, and reporting
• Facilitating coordination across delivery teams, helping to manage interdependencies and priorities
• Contributing to stakeholder governance, milestone planning, content decks, and delivery dashboards
• Enhancing team operations using agile principles (capacity planning, retrospectives, stand-ups, etc.)
• Supporting internal initiatives such as recruitment mapping, commercial oversight, and contract management
• Building strong relationships with internal and external delivery partners to align effort and outcomes
• Ensuring timely and accurate delivery reporting across the programme, supporting both executive and working-level updates

You’ll bring:

• Strong experience in digital project delivery roles, ideally at both project and programme levels
• Confidence managing planning and delivery across multiple interdependent projects
• Experience working in hybrid environments, comfortable with waterfall delivery, but fluent in agile techniques
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, able to work across teams and functions
• Familiarity with complex tech estates and legacy systems is a plus
• A pragmatic, proactive mindset – someone who can create structure where it’s needed and keep momentum moving

If this sounds of interest and want more information, please let me know.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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