SC/DV Senior Project Manager

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a SC/DV Senior Project Manager to join our existing experienced team. What do we look for in a SC/DV Senior Project Manager? We are powered by brilliant people. As a SC/DV Senior Project Manager you will be able to demonstrate a knowledge of the following:

Join our team and play a vital role in shaping some of our exciting projects where everyone has a voice, and together we face our clients' problems head-on. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and business resources to ensure successful project delivery. This role is based in Farnborough; a driving licence and a willingness to travel between customer sites is essential.

You will need a focus on people, and you will need to be comfortable embracing our values, standards and our ways of working:

• Delivery focus - Providing benefit through iterative delivery.
• Teamwork - Enthusiasm to work cooperatively and supportively with others.
• Communication - Based on high emotional intelligence, able to listen and question effectively, with concise verbal and written communication skills. Able to communicate with confidence at higher and lower levels.
• Flexibility - Willing to deliver on a broad range of tasks from providing advice on improving client’s delivery to ‘rolling up your sleeves’ to assist the team and customer in delivery.
• Customer focus - Keen to deliver a high level of customer value.
• Achievement - Looks to exceed customer aspirations and work to goals and manages obstacles. Energy, pride and determination in meeting targets and overcoming challenges.
• Initiative - Ability to analyse situations; decompose work into key tasks and activities; find the elusive solution.
• Development - Not willing to stand still. Wants to continually develop new skills and undertake personal training.
• Integrity - Promote a high professional standard at all times.

Experience in working with multiple project management methodologies.

Responsibilities:

• Project management - The ability to manage all aspects of project delivery, including forecasting, change management, and risk management. Oversee deliverables from cross-functional teams, vendors, and business resources. Foster open communication across teams to identify cross-team development dependencies and risks early on. Work with project accountants to manage project finances. Experience of working in a project delivery environment with a sound understanding of structured and agile methodologies and applying them in separate situations (e.g. APMP, MSP, Jira, Tempo, Scrum).
• Problem solving - The ability to identify problems collaboratively and develop actions/solutions, communicating both to key stakeholders and presenting information through reports, dashboards, and slides as appropriate.
• Commercial awareness - Providing contract management, supplier management. Market experience working within the UK Defence & Security sector is advantageous.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Project Management, or related fields preferred or equivalent experience.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., APMP, Prince2, Agile Certification).
• Strong project management, risk management, and procurement management skills.
• Familiarity with the Agile, Waterfall, and Shape Up profiles and methodologies.
• SC/DV Clearance (willing to obtain DV).

About SiXworks: SiXworks is a leading provider of secure digital solutions, specialising in digital experimentation and focused on fail-safe-fast cutting-edge technology solutions deployed in highly secure environments. We are unified in our mission to accelerate innovation and adoption of secure, digital technology to improve the operational agility of Defence and National Security. This is an exciting time for us; we have ambitious plans for continued growth and development, and we are seeking to add brilliant, experienced, motivated, and passionate people to our team to work with us on this journey.

Why join SiXworks? Our team is a fusion of brilliance, featuring senior operational, technical, and business leaders from various industries and the armed forces. We're also powered by a league of extraordinary IT engineers, architects, developers, and project managers. Together, we're an unstoppable force of digital innovation!

SiXworks’ expertise includes Secure-by-Design, cloud computing, advanced network and infrastructure design, rapid application development, cross-security domain systems, multi-tenanted High-Performance Compute, multi-source data platforms, cyber vulnerability mitigation, and intelligence systems. We provide supplier-agnostic, technical, and business consultancy to customers while championing open-source and best-of-breed technologies.

A word on UK Security Clearance: Due to the secure nature of the position and working environment, you must have, or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance.

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