Project Manager
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Job Title: Project Manager
Salary: £35,156 plus £2,623 location allowance.
Location: (Agile Working) Fulham, Westminster and other locations in the MPS Estate.
This is an exciting time to be working for the Metropolitan Police Service.
In addition to large-scale transformation, there's the unique and ever-evolving challenge of policing London. This means that there are more opportunities for you to get involved with making London the safest global city in a time of unprecedented change within the UK's largest Police Service. The Transformation Directorate is running a campaign for the role of Project Manager to work in Programme Delivery.
Job Role
Support the delivery of project(s) or work streams to cost, quality and time standards. Assist programme delivery to deliver the portfolio of transformation projects, ensuring expert project management, in order to deliver the Transformation Directorate roadmap efficiently and effectively.
Key Responsibilities
- Champion and implement effective project delivery
- Support communication and engagement with project stakeholders, developing and maintaining key relationships and working in partnership to resolve problems to benefit operational policing and the MPS
- Work with the Transformation Directorate and local project / change teams to ensure consistency of project delivery approach
- Provide direction and leadership for the project delivery team in scope of the role
- Support the building and sustaining of capacity and capability within the project team to deliver the programme
- Deputise for the project manager where needed as the key point of contact between the project and the Transformation with authority to make delegated decisions, and be the key contact for the project for stakeholders
- Deliver project outcomes and benefits
- Support the project manager to manage the project, including set-up, management and delivery, ensuring that the project outputs are delivered to time, cost and quality and meets all Transformation processes, standards and reporting requirements
- Support co-ordination of the project/work stream and its interdependencies, working closely with the project managers for the other projects within the programme
- Support identifying, managing and resolving risks, tracking and managing costs and benefits, providing reports as required, and ensuring all outputs meet project requirements
- Lead project work streams as required, managing the delivery of key outputs, managing and resolving risks and providing progress updates to the project manager as required
- Manage stakeholder communications and key messages for the project / work stream
- Maintain project / work stream plans and associated risks
Please note that as part of the selection process you will undertake a technical and competency interview process.
To apply, please visit our website to download a role specific information pack and click on the link to complete and submit the online application form. You will also be required to submit a detailed CV and Personal Statement.
Completed applications must be submitted by 23.55pm on 31st December 2019
Failure to supply any relevant documents will result in your application being terminated.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
Experience
- Experience of working in a large and complex organisation
- Experience of influencing, negotiating with, and providing challenge to management-level stakeholders
- Experience of contributing to a collaborative culture team culture and an environment of continuous learning
- Experience of working on complex projects
Qualifications
- Professional qualification in relevant field is desirable, or willingness to work towards it
And / or
- Professional and/or graduate qualifications in business management or similar field, MSP or PRINCE 2 qualification is desirable
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
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This opportunity is closed to applications.