Project Manager (Safeguarding Children’s Partnership)

Salary: £25.2 – £32.4 per hour

Our local authority client has a 3-month contract vacancy (with the possibility of extension) for the role of a PROJECT MANAGER (SAFEGUARDING CHIDREN’S PARTNERSHIP), details as follows

Job Purpose

The Safeguarding Children’s Partnership Project Manager will drive forwards projects within the Children, Families and Adults transformation agenda to ensure that the directorate can realise both efficiency savings and exploit new and emerging technologies and ways of working to improve service delivery.

Responsibilities

• To lead, plan and manage the delivery of complex projects within a programme framework, in accordance with the specified scope, quality, budget, timescale and resource objectives, and in a way which ensures high customer satisfaction.
• Direct, motivate and manage the project resources, particularly staff teams drawn from a range of service areas as required to work on specific projects.
• Work with customers and stakeholders throughout the project from defining quality criteria for project deliverables to delivering new capabilities into the business to ensure that project benefits and outputs remain aligned with customer priorities.
• Map, analyse and constructively challenge business processes and requirements to ensure that opportunities for efficiencies and service improvement are maximised.
• Identify, baseline and track both financial and non-financial benefits through the project lifecycle including putting measures in place to ensure post-project benefits realisation is robust.
• Drive delivery of project products and work packages applying recognised good practice change management tools and techniques within the framework of the Cheshire East Council formal project management method
• Create, maintain and share agreed project documentation including the project initiation document, project plan, project budget, risks and issues log, benefits realisation plan and progress reports to ensure that all stakeholders including the project board have a clear and consistent understanding of the project.
• Manage project risks and issues including identification, assessment and escalation of risks and issues, maintaining a risks and issues log and horizon scanning both internally and externally to identify interdependencies and risks to achieving the project’s agreed benefits.

Essential Requirements

• Undergraduate degree numerates or analytical discipline preferred.
• PRINCE2 foundation or equivalent formal project qualification.
• Experience of working within local authority governance frameworks.
• Experience of using MS Project and visio (or equivalent) to produce plans and diagrams for stakeholders.
• Breadth and depth of understanding across local authority’s services and processes e.g. transport, social care, ICT, procurement.
• At least two years’ experience of project management.

This role consists of Hybrid working.

If you have the necessary experience and qualifications to fulfill this role, please submit your CV ASAP.