Senior Project Manager

Location: Belfast

Job Type: Temporary 

Duration of booking: Expected to last 3 months with possible extension

Proposed start date: ASAP

Pay Rates: £31.92 per hour PAYE inclusive of holiday pay

Hours / Working Days: 37.5 hours per week / Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm 

Sector: Healthcare 

Based: Office / Hospital

Key Duties / Responsibilities

Project delivery and governance

• Deliver short, time-bounded, complex ICT projects on time and within budget, as directed by Senior Management, project Senior Responsible Owners (SROs) and Project Boards.
• Manage projects and maintain project documentation in line with HSC and PRINCE2 standards and practices.
• Establish project and programme structures for effective management, quality assurance and reporting.
• Liaise with programme management and related projects to avoid gaps or duplication of work.
• Manage project administration resources.

Business needs and ICT solutions

• Work collaboratively and innovatively with stakeholders to develop business cases.
• Analyse customer business plans, internal policies, strategies, and operational and performance management documents.
• Identify and report how ICT can help customers achieve their corporate objectives and deliverables.
• Review customer operations and identify risks relating to availability, supportability and capacity.
• Propose options to address these risks, including estimated costs, procurement strategies and timescales.
• Identify solutions to customer requirements, including innovative technologies and digital business transformation.
• Present findings and recommendations to customer Senior Management.

Procurement and supplier management

• Work with external commercial suppliers to procure and implement ICT systems, solutions and services.
• Work with specialist legal and procurement advisers to deliver projects and associated contractual agreements successfully.

Budgets, monitoring and reporting

• Plan and control capital and revenue budgets for individual projects and programmes.
• Use Project Vision, a Programme and Project Management (PPM) software tool, to plan, monitor and report on projects.
• Report progress through agreed reporting structures, including Highlight Reports and End-Stage Assessments.

Project evaluation and lessons learned

• Organise and prepare Post Project Evaluations and Project Reviews to assess project management.
• Where appropriate, share lessons learned and recommend follow-on actions.

Essential 

• A university degree or professional qualification (or equivalent/higher) and at least 3 years’ work in a project management role within a major organisation;

OR

• at least 5 years’ work in a project management role within a major organisation.
• Demonstrated leadership of an ICT project valued at over £100,000, or leadership of a complex workstream on an ICT project/programme valued at over £5 million.
• At least 3 years’ experience managing teams of people.
• PRINCE2, MSP, Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent qualification.

• Demonstrate evidence of personally managing and leading change within an organisation
• Experience working with a diverse range of stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes.
• Demonstrate a broad range of technical knowledge and awareness of new technology and service developments.