Senior Project Manager – Technology – Police Staff – Counter Terrorism Policing HQ in London

Contract type – Full Time, Permanent, Secondment

Location – London

Band – Band L

Information about the Role

Working within National Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters (NCTPHQ), the Senior Project Manager will act as a Senior Manager in the Technology Pillar and be responsible for the successful delivery of specific project(s) within the Technology project portfolio across a multitude of technical disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Champion and implement effective project delivery, supporting the vision to deliver effective technology to counter terrorism, including:
• Leadership of a team to bring consensus to what needs to be achieved to resolve business challenges within mid to high complexity project(s).
• The Senior Project Manager needs to be comfortable working across all stages of the technology lifecycle and able to work within multiple disciplines of technology (e.g. cloud, applications, infrastructure, mobility).
• Definition and agreement of the appropriate methodologies, governance and reporting mechanisms to be used across project delivery in line with Portfolio Office standards.
• Ensuring governing forums and senior stakeholders are appropriately engaged with ongoing change activity through briefings, alongside more targeted conversations to influence others and build support for delivery.
• Remote and/or in person task management of a project team within an often reactive environment with moderate to high levels of uncertainty to move towards an agreed delivery end point.
• Development of project product breakdown structures and project/work stream plans with team members, followed by monitoring and assurance activities to ensure project progress is monitored and controlled and dependencies managed.
• Development of Business Cases at appropriate points of the project lifecycle and then ownership and management of these cases through the CTPHQ governance process.
• Proactive risk and issue management with an understanding of management levers which can be used and appropriate points at which these should be deployed.
• Managing commercial processes in conjunction with the CTPHQ commercial team to ensure relevant delivery contracts are in place, then subsequent contract management through the lifecycle of the project(s).
• The Senior Project Manager needs to understand principles around commercial management and ensure correct controls in place to deliver value for money.
• Manage communication and engagement with project stakeholders, developing and maintaining key relationships and working in partnership to resolve problems to benefit operational policing.
• Implementing and managing change control across project governance. Defining change tolerance and devising the correct level of impact assessment where required.
• Recommend and implement innovation across CTPHQ Technology based on experience and best practice to both enhance project delivery and technical tooling used across CTP.
• Manage recruitment of technical resources (many niche specialists) to assist in delivering complex technical projects.

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