Project Manager - JOB SWITCH LTD : Job Details

The Strategy and Change Team is part of Strategy and Communities. We play a central role in shaping, forming and delivering change across the council, aligning the council to deliver.

Our team work collaboratively across the organization to provide strategic leadership, translate policy priorities to delivery, and design and execute corporate change programmes.

You will play a lead role in specifying and delivering high profile and crosscutting projects across a range of different strategy functions as part of the Strategy and Communities department, working collaboratively with partners to help deliver wider council commitments. You will support complex organizational redesign projects, leading on and contributing to multi-disciplinary and multiple project teams to deliver organizational and cultural change across the council.

The job will at times be complex and demanding. It is a position that will enable you to engage with a wide range of people and services. While working within a team, you will also have contact with the most senior officers and with elected members of the Council.

Knowledge, including educational qualifications

Relevant degree and/or professional or qualification, or work experience of at least equivalent level, plus evidence of continuing managerial and professional development

Programme and project management training, preferably agile project management.

Good working knowledge of current social, political and economic issues relating to the work of the public sector, especially local government and what this means for the Chief Executive’s office and wider partnerships.

Practical working knowledge of project and programme management best practice. This should include methods, processes, tools and techniques to control risks and achieve outputs and benefits.

Experience

A record of achievement in supporting project management delivery in an environment of interdependent projects