22878 - Senior Project Manager
About The Position
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is focused on improving public safety and reducing reoffending through reforms in prisons, probation, and youth justice, aiming for a swifter and more certain access to justice for all citizens. Project professionals within the MoJ contribute to enhancing the government's ability to protect the public, reduce reoffending, and ensure a more effective, transparent, and responsive criminal justice system. The Project Delivery Function is dedicated to fostering capable and empowered teams that deliver project excellence, maintaining a reputation for highly skilled and professional practice that consistently achieves outstanding results. This involves initiating projects with strong foundations, ensuring delivery confidence, and successfully realizing outcomes and benefits. The MoJ's Functional Operating Model centralizes and coordinates all project delivery within the Ministry, offering unique opportunities to implement significant projects. Successful candidates will join a flexible resource pool and may be assigned roles based on business needs, with a commitment to the role for a minimum of 18 months. MoJ leaders are expected to demonstrate openness, honesty, commitment, and deliver results.
Requirements
- Leadership experience.
- Project Delivery experience against appropriate framework.
Nice To Haves
- Government Project Delivery Accreditation – Practitioner Level (or willing to work towards within 12 months).
Responsibilities
- Leads and manages the project and project team, driving and overseeing delivery to ensure objectives are clearly defined and achieved within agreed time, cost, and quality constraints.
- Plays a key role in project governance and works with stakeholders to ensure agreed project outputs are delivered, enabling benefits to be realised.
- Creates and leads the project to achieve agreed outcomes within time, cost, and quality constraints.
- Provides daily management and leadership of the project and team, establishing effective leadership and management controls.
- Designs the project structure and organisation suitable for each stage, establishes project controls, selects appropriate delivery methodologies, and manages transitions between project phases.
- Develops and drafts the business case, incorporating input from specialists as needed.
- Develops the budget and monitors delivery within it.
- Identifies skill requirements, deploys and develops resources, and manages a medium-sized team.
- Delivers the benefits and outcomes stated in the business case, ensuring a suitable benefits realisation strategy is in place and monitoring long-term benefit delivery against the business case.
- Identifies and manages stakeholder relationships, ensuring necessary senior-level support, and manages internal and external relationships appropriately.
- Identifies and monitors project risks and issues, develops mitigating actions, and escalates when necessary. Collaborates with related projects to manage interdependencies.
- Supports effective governance and decision-making, provides reporting, and engages with mechanisms that hold the project manager accountable for delivery.
- Participates in assurance reviews and supports implementation of recommendations. Organises assurance processes, such as gateway reviews, when required.
- Ensures change management processes are in place to agree on and document changes to deliverables with stakeholders.
- Offers support, guidance, and coaching to the project team, shows commitment to personal development, and promotes effective team performance.
- Communicates the vision and translates it into delivery objectives for the team. Develops and maintains the Project Plan, sets project controls, manages performance, and reports progress to sponsors.
- Uses digital tools to analyse data to understand progress against the plan, takes mitigation actions, and exploits opportunities. Uses data to forecast future outcomes and address issues before they escalate. Provides actionable data-driven insights to ensure stakeholders are kept informed and engaged throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensures that environmental and social considerations are embedded in programme design, procurement, and monitoring processes.
- Manages Project Delivery Professional(s) within the Professional Delivery Group, including HR, well-being, and development with a focus on coaching and mentoring, ensuring quality and standards of PPM are upheld.
Benefits
- Annual leave is 25 days on appointment and will increase to 30 days after five years’ service.
- Scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year.
- Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day.
- Choice of pension schemes.
- Extensive range of training and development opportunities.
- Opportunity to join employee-run networks for advice and support.
- A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
- Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
- Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
- Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
