- Pay Rate:
£445.53 per day PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 12 months
- HACKNEY,
E8 1DT
Interim Project Manager
Job Ref: RQ596388
This post is mainly intended to but not limited to lead a team to ensure we reduce the increase we have recently experienced in the volume of Legal Disrepair claims This post will lead on delivering agreed projects to time, cost and quality. Identify opportunities for improvement and produce robust business cases for approval by relevant decision making bodies
Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake reviews to identify opportunities for improvement with supporting evidence.
- Undertake detailed project planning, management and implementation to ensure projects are delivered on time and to budget, and deliver their anticipated benefits, whilst minimising disruption to Council services. Design effective project governance arrangements and directly address governance issues as and when they arise. Measure programme/ project impacts and ensure lessons learnt are fed back into a process of improving the way the Council manages change.
- Manage teams that will comprise of Senior Officers with professional expertise (e.g. Service experts; HR; Finance; ICT; Legal; Property; Procurement; Communications) and may include external contractors. The post holder will be expected to champion the programme/ project vision, using experience to provide powerful analogies/ case studies to support the agreed course of action.
- Develop effective working relationships with lead stakeholders within the programme/ project, including service based officers (up to Director level); ‘professional’ support services officers (HR/Finance etc); elected Members, Chief Officers, Trade Unions; professional advisers and contractors.
- Provide credible, accurate and timely reports to the agreed frequency, and to report ad-hoc and promptly on any appropriate developments that could adversely affect the project, or the Council in a wider context.
- Be responsible for effective risk management and issue resolution for the project. Make recommendations and set frameworks to ensure key decisions are made with consideration of all relevant factors.
- Quality-check the projects for which the post holder is responsible and provide regular assurance on their viability; governance and risk profile.
- Effectively chair project meetings and produce any required project documentation (in line with the Council’s project management toolkit).
- Represent the Council in communication and consultation with relevant stakeholders that may include (affected staff; Senior Management; Members; service user groups; Trade Unions; supplier organisations). This may require negotiation both internally and externally, and involve the resolution of complex problems and conflicting priorities.
- To monitor the project budget and in the event of deviation recommend appropriate remedial measures
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- Knowledge of the construction industry, particularly in relation to reactive repairs (including Legal Disrepair)
- Experience on working with NEC Form of contract and building projects
- Ability to assemble and challenge robust business cases and manage a portfolio of activities to achieve return on investment
- Able to adapt to different people and flex styles to suit different needs and ways of working
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- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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