Change Consultancy - Senior Project Manager (Band B)

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Transformation
Lewisham
Band B
Full Time
36 hours per week
Permanent

Job Title: Change Consultancy - Senior Project Manager

Salary: £50,897 to £62,015 plus a Location allowance of £1,721. You will receive £50,897 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £62,015 will be via incremental progression.

Location: Lewisham

 

Are you a project and change professional who thrives on tackling business transformation challenges? Do you want to be part of a team to actively provide project initiation and intervention services to equip, skill and empower individuals to successfully deliver change across the Met, then keep reading!

Who are we?

The Change Consultancy Team in the Transformation Directorate champion the way in which the Met delivers its change. We set the standards and offer a bespoke service to a wide range of customers from helping project leads work out what they need to do to plan their projects, to facilitation of workshops, to delivering rapid improvement actions to fix areas known to be impacting project performance and providing critical friend reviews.

We are seeking amazing project and change professionals to join our team. This is a unique opportunity for you to work with awesome customers and provide a service to project leads that require help to deliver defined areas of work. This is not a typical senior project manager role where you will lead on the end to end delivery. This role will require you to be deployed on short interventions from a couple of weeks up to two months, and you will be involved in elements of project initiation, delivery, recovery, coaching and review.

Change Consultancy responsibilities include the following which you will be involved in delivering:

  • Project initiation to set projects up for success
  • Facilitate workshops to support planning, stakeholder mapping, risk, benefit and dependency management
  • Provide bespoke advice through a project lifecycle
  • Advise on project delivery methods proportionate and effective to the needs of a particular project
  • Support projects with resource utilisation and forecasting
  • Provide easily accessible training and supporting material
  • Provide bespoke training according to specific needs identified
  • Set and explain the standards relevant to the project
  • Provide tools and write guidance and supporting material
  • Review and maintain guidance to ensure proportionate and reflective of best practice
  • Provide peer and critical friend reviews to support projects to be successful
  • Establish a level of excellence in capability and performance through shared learning

Why join the Team?

  • You will be a valued member of the team - your ideas/suggestions matter
  • Opportunity to focus on your development to enhance your project and change management skills
  • Your contribution will aid successful delivery of change across the Met to achieve its strategic objectives
  • You will get to work with a diverse range to customers and stakeholders
  • You will have variety of work and see tangible results

Location

We want to provide you with the flexibility to balance a rewarding career with home-life and personal wellbeing. Though you will be based in Sydenham (SE26 5NF) our ambition is to make the best use of our shared space enabling a mixture of remote and office based work. You should expect a blend of office and home working including one day working at our base location and at least two days meeting together across the MPS estate with the project teams you will be working with.

Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:

https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/

Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement and online application form. Your CV should be concise and set out your career history, key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you provide reasons for any gaps within the last two years (maximum of two A4 pages). Your personal statement (minimum of 500 and maximum 700 words) should evidence how your skills and experience make you suitable for this role and how you meet the essential criteria.  (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).

Completed applications must be submitted by 14th February 2023.

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.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

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Essential Criteria

  • Candidates with a solid Project and Change Management background, who have initiated, managed and delivered projects in multi-disciplinary environments
  • Experience of being able to facilitate workshops to achieve the right outcomes
  • Experience of coaching others to develop for example project plans and stakeholder maps
  • Experience of Benefit Management to drive positive change within projects
  • Experience of Risk Management to identify project threats and opportunities
  • Good attention to detail, strong organisational skills and ability to undertake work and adapt to fast-paced working environments
  • Be articulate with good presentation and written communication skills
  • The ability to operate effectively with project leads in order to deliver the required outputs and work amicably with stakeholders
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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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