SC Cleared Project Manager - 12 Months in North East

£425 Inside ir35 SC Cleared Project Manager 12 Months 3 Days a week onsite in Newcastle or Birmingham

text: Large UK health/public sector client

Experience & Domain

• Public sector experience – ideally UK government / health & public sector.
• Complex transformation delivery: Comfort operating in complex, multi-system environments.
• Experience managing technical transformation and modernisation work (e.g. retiring legacy stacks, upgrading Java/Spring Boot, large-scale tech refresh).
• Exposure to DevOps environments: Doesn’t have to be hands‑on engineer, but should understand DevOps-focused delivery, tooling, and ways of working.
• Strong project management track record: Planning and running delivery for complex technical programmes.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing stakeholders.
• Working closely with a delivery lead and technical SMEs rather than being the sole lead.
• Baseline: BPSS is acceptable, especially for non-production work.
• Preferred: SC clearance (or at least SC-eligible) is strongly preferred, particularly as the PM’s remit and exposure grow. Client will prioritise candidates with existing SC if possible.

Ways of Working

• Comfortable operating in a hybrid model: Agile ways of working (scrum/kanban, ceremonies) “as agile as possible”. But also able to handle T&M / SoW constraints and bring Agile + commercial/contractual realities together.
• Able to work within consulting‑style expectations: “T‑shaped consultant” mindset – some flexibility to stretch across activities and adapt to different demands within the account.
• Primary location: Newcastle (core team is Newcastle-based).
• Secondary location: Birmingham (some core team members there; they travel to Newcastle roughly every three weeks).