Senior Project Manager

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead change control processes across a complex, multi-departmental programme. This role involves engaging with stakeholders, driving change management strategies, and ensuring effective governance to achieve project objectives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in stakeholder management and change control, with a focus on improving service delivery and efficiency.

Benefits

Flexible working benefits

Employee well-being support

Civil Service Pension Scheme

25 days of paid annual leave

Learning & professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement and change management.
• Strong understanding of change control processes and governance.
• Experience in guiding and developing teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive and oversee change control processes within a multi-departmental programme.
• Engage with senior leaders to ensure alignment with change control strategies.
• Supervise the change control team and manage impact assessments.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Change Management

Strategic Thinking

Communication

Process Improvement

Education

Formal Change Management Certification

Project Management Expertise

Job description

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Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford

Job Summary

At DSIT we’re all about improving people’s lives by maximising the potential of science & technology.

We accelerate innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science, research and development.

We use technology for good by ensuring new and existing technologies are safely developed and deployed across the UK, with the benefits more widely shared.

We are driving forward a modern digital government which gives citizens a more satisfying experience and their time back.

We do all this to enable the Government’s 5 national missions: kickstarting economic growth, making Britain a clean energy superpower, taking back our streets, breaking down barriers to opportunity and building an NHS fit for the future.

Above all, we focus on improving people’s lives. Whether it’s researching new treatments for disease, developing better batteries, reducing burdens through better public services, keeping children safe online, and much more, outcomes for citizens are at the heart of what we do.

Our Inclusive Environment

We offer flexible working benefits, employee well-being support and a great pension. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We supportcandidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Find Out More

We regularly run events where you can find out more about the department and tips for the application and interview process. You can sign up for upcoming events here: https://forms.office.com/e/Jae3B4w7xm

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Job Description

The Matrix Programme is a transformation initiative involving 9 Departments (listed at end). It is a unique cross-government collaboration that will unlock simpler, better, and more joined up working by bringing together the systems, processes, and ways of working for key government functions such as HR, Finance or Procurement, commonly known as Shared Services.

The Programme is part of the Shared Services Team, a fantastic team passionate about improving the existing shared services experience for DSIT and its partners whilst working todeliverthe strategic objectives of the new Government Shared Services Strategy.

We will deliver the Government's three overarching objectives for shared services:

• Better experience for all users - intuitive systems that are easy to use and mobile-enabled.
• Efficiency and value for money - better systems and services which support productivity and seek to reduce costs.
• Standardised processes and data - support interoperability, making it easier to understand and compare corporate data.
  
  

Departments forming the Matrix Programme: Cabinet Office (CO), Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), Department for Business Trade (DBT), Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Department for Education (DfE), Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), Attorney’s General Office (AGO) and His Majesty's Treasury (HMT).

The Matrix Programme is a transformation initiative involving 9 Departments (listed at end). It is a unique cross-government collaboration that will unlock simpler, better, and more joined up working by bringing together the systems, processes, and ways of working for key government functions such as HR, Finance or Procurement, commonly known as Shared Services.

The Programme is part of the Shared Services Team, a fantastic team passionate about improving the existing shared services experience for DSIT and its partners whilst working todeliverthe strategic objectives of the new Government Shared Services Strategy.

We will deliver the Government's three overarching objectives for shared services:

• Better experience for all users - intuitive systems that are easy to use and mobile-enabled.
• Efficiency and value for money - better systems and services which support productivity and seek to reduce costs.
• Standardised processes and data - support interoperability, making it easier to understand and compare corporate data.
  
  

Departments forming the Matrix Programme: Cabinet Office (CO), Department for Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), Department for Business Trade (DBT), Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), Department for Education (DfE), Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC), Attorney’s General Office (AGO) and His Majesty's Treasury (HMT).

Person specification

Key Responsibilities

Short Summary:

The Senior Project Manager plays a pivotal role in driving and overseeing change control processes within a complex, multi-departmental Programme. They provide tactical direction, ensuring the successful design, implementation, and adoption of change management frameworks, tools, and best practices.

This role requires strong stakeholder engagement, working closely with senior leaders, governance bodies, and change forums to ensure alignment and compliance with change control strategies.

Additionally, they provide supervision to the change control team, direction and oversight. Reporting Management of Change Control to the respective Team & Operational Leads. Ensuring effective governance, impact assessment, and approvals while supporting business transformation. Their expertise ensures that change is managed smoothly, risks are mitigated, and the Programme remains on track to achieve its objectives.

Key Responsibilities Include But Not Limited To

• Provide strong and visible coordination in a complex, multi-departmental environment, engaging effectively with senior leaders to drive change requirements.
• Develop and advocate a clear vision for change control management, establishing best practice standards, tools, and processes to ensure consistency and effectiveness. Alignment to project profession and the commercial standards for compliance and control.
• Drive the design and implementation of the Programme Change Control Strategy, including the Programme Product Tracker, Quality Management Strategy, and Configuration Management processes to support successful change delivery.
• Manage and refine the Programme’s change control strategy and processes, ensuring impact assessments, approvals, and compliance with Matrix governance requirements.
• Change Control should be implemented in the planning, monitoring, and management of deliverables, ensuring effective collaboration between suppliers and the delivery team.
• Drive effective change control, collaborating with the Team & Operational Leads to deliver key messaging around change control initiatives.
• Provide supervision and direction to the change control team, fostering development and ensuring the successful execution of all change control activities across the Programme, leading discussions with suppliers on change control, and leading change requests and development of impact assessments.
  
  

Essential Criteria

Required

• Stakeholder Management – Identify, classify, and update stakeholder engagement plan. Lead stakeholder engagement on project to ensure it meets Business Change requirements. Point of contact for senior stakeholders.
• Change Management – Ability to ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.
• Programme & Change Control Governance – Strong understanding of change control processes, impact assessments, approvals, and compliance requirements within large-scale programmes.
• Strategic Thinking & Problem-Solving – Ability to develop and execute change control strategies, ensuring alignment with business objectives and governance frameworks.
• Communication & Engagement – Strong ability to craft and deliver clear, compelling messaging around change initiatives, working collaboratively with internal teams.
• Process Improvement & Standardisation – Experience in refining and optimising change management processes to drive efficiency and consistency.
• Team Management & Development – Proven experience in guiding, coaching, and developing teams to deliver high-quality change management outcomes.
• Governance & Compliance Knowledge – Understanding of industry regulations and governance structures related to change control Ability to work with commercial colleagues to assess and evaluate the impact of any proposed change on contracts.
  
  

Desirable Criteria

• Formal Change Management Certification – Qualifications such as Prosci, APMG Change Management, or ACMP Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP).
• Project & Programme Management Expertise – Familiarity with methodologies such as PRINCE2, MSP (Managing Successful Programmes), or Agile frameworks.
• Experience in Business Transformation – Exposure to large-scale business transformation, restructuring, or technology-driven change programmes.
• Knowledge of Configuration & Quality Management – Understanding of product tracking, quality management, and configuration management strategies.
• Experience in Matrix Organisations – Working within complex governance structures and reporting lines across multiple departments or business units.
• Digital & Technology Change Experience – Understanding of change control in digital transformation or IT implementation projects.
• Public Sector or Regulated Industry Experience – Experience in change control management within government, healthcare, finance, or other regulated sectors.
  
  

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace
  
  

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Change Control
• Commercial and procurement skills
  
  

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:

• Change Control
  
  

Alongside your salary of £54,415, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £15,764 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
  
  

Office attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV, personal statement and any technical skills required.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Applications will be sifted on CV, personal statement, and any technical skills required.

In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the lead technical skill - Change Control.

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

The interview will consist of behaviour and technical questions.

Sift and interview dates

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Further Information

Existing Civil Servants and applicants from accredited NDPBs are eligible to apply,and can be considered on loan basis (Civil Servants) or secondment (accredited NDPBs). Prior agreement to be released on a loan basis must be obtained before commencing the application process. In the case of Civil Servants, the terms of the loan will be agreed between the home and host department and the Civil Servant. This includes grade on return.

Reasonable Adjustment

We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.

Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in ourDSIT Candidate Guidance. ADSIT Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.

We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section.

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

Any move to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).

DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign.

DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [e-mail] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email [e-mail]

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
  
  

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job Contact

• Name : Matrix Resourcing Team
• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Recruitment team

• Email : [e-mail]
  
  

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance [e-mail] . If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Government Administration

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