Technical Project Manager – East London – Prin

Permanent Technical Project Manager to be based in East London

The Role:

Working closely with the business and the IS technical operations team to take on the scoping, impact assessment, planning, end to end management and reporting of a range of technical projects within the IS department; ensuring all projects are delivered to time, cost and quality. Furthermore, assist with the formalisation of the IS Quality Assurance and governance framework for project delivery

The Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing a number of projects at any given time and must be able to take initiative and work independently to make project critical decisions. The ideal project manager a background in technical projects including software, networking and infrastructure.

Key Accountabilities:

– For business generated changes or projects, work closely with the business sponsor or owner to ensure requirements, dependencies and success criteria are clearly articulated and factored into the design/implementation

– For internal IS/supplier generated changes or projects, work closely with IS sponsor to ensure requirements, dependencies and success criteria are clearly articulated and factored into the design/implementation

– End to end/full life cycle project management of multiple IT change and service maintenance projects in parallel

– Monitoring and communicating overall progress of the project and use of resources

– Organise, direct and motivate the project teams.

– Initiate corrective action where necessary, including responsibility for change control, assuring the overall direction and integrity of the project.

Technical Competencies

Education and Qualifications:

· University degree or equivalent work experience

· Prince2 Foundation and practitioner

Knowledge:

· Good technical knowledge of how networks, databases and Microsoft based IT systems and software all fit together

· Microsoft Project

· ITIL

· MS office

Experience:

· Full life cycle implementation of infrastructure and software/ web based projects. Experience of successfully delivery a CRM system from requirements gathering stage to service launch would be an advantage

· working in a structured Project Management environment (preferably Prince2 ) and in the public sector

· working in an ITIL environment

· Production of Output Based Specifications/ Statement Of Requirements for software projects

· Production of project documentation

· Change management

· Project reporting