Senior Project Manager 

JOB PURPOSE 

To project manage major projects and initiatives to deliver the Strategic Estates masterplan, a key organisational strategy to enable the Trust strategy, clinical strategy and people strategy to be realised.

Location: Dorset

Job Type: Permanent  

Salary: £55,690 - £62,682

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

Sector: Healthcare 

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Day to day project management of masterplan and other projects
• Develop and maintain key programme and project documentation (for example business cases, risk register, communications plan, project plans, issues logs, equalities impact assessments, benefits templates and other relevant documents)
• Prepare, manage and evaluate options appraisals.
• Ensure effective stakeholder management and communications to create key links both internally and externally, holding to account for delivery where necessary.
• Work flexibly, diligently and autonomously to meet tight timescales Plan and manage project budgets and resources.
• Support capital projects from feasibility through to timely completion and within budget working alongside project teams and partners.
• Work with the wider Estates team to ensure projects are delivered compliant with relevant legislation and best practice
• Support planning and building control application processes for capital work
• To support the delivery of effective communication through leading focus groups, developing newsletters and other communication methods where required.
• To provide effective leadership to and management of design teams and other consultants/specialists engaged for project delivery
• Chair and support project boards and working groups
• Prepare and present reports to diverse groups internally and externally
• Ensure engagement of relevant service leads or clinicians throughout the life of the project
• Capture lessons learnt and undertake post project evaluation

Experience

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience working at a similar level.  PRINCE2 or equivalent, or experience to a masters level equivalent 
• Ability to work effectively in a team. 
• Ability to lead and inspire change. 
• Organisational and administrative skills for managing a highly complex workload. 
• Project management skills; demonstrating the ability to lead the design, delivery and evaluation of complex projects. 
• Ability to work on own initiative and unsupervised. 
• Demonstrated ability to analyze situations and provide solutions
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft office (Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and Outlook. 
• Ability to motivate others. 
• Ability to exercise tact and diplomacy 
• Demonstrated ability of presentation skills 
• Experience in managing complex projects. 
• Experience in managing change. 
• Experience in communications and stakeholder management. 
• Experience in leading teams. 
• Experience of working in public sector or health care. Experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders both internal and external. 
• Experience of working