At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead exciting digital and cyber projects, coordinating teams and ensuring successful delivery.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking team enhancing local government capabilities.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, hybrid working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with potential for career advancement in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in local government while developing your project management skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in managing complex projects and strong organisational skills required.
6 months initially. Rate IRO of £450 per day inside IR35. Hybrid working – 2 days per week onsite in London. SC ideally/eligible.
Overview:
The team delivers the Local Government Digital, Data and Cyber Capability programme, working to strengthen capability across local government through the development, piloting and scaling of capability interventions. The team coordinates activity across delivery, policy, engagement and external partners, ensuring that programmes are effectively planned, governed and delivered against agreed outcomes.
About the role:
- Develop and maintain programme delivery plans, milestones and schedules.
- Coordinate delivery activity across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Monitor progress against agreed objectives, deliverables and timelines.
- Track actions and decisions through to completion.
- Maintain programme governance and reporting processes.
- Prepare updates, dashboards and papers for senior stakeholders and governance boards.
- Manage and monitor programme risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
- Support the delivery and implementation of local government capability initiatives and pilots.
- Coordinate inputs across delivery, policy, engagement and external partners.
- Identify dependencies and delivery blockers and support their resolution.
- Track programme outcomes, benefits and key performance indicators.
- Produce regular progress reports and delivery insights.
- Maintain clear and accurate programme documentation and records.
- Support lessons learned and continuous improvement as capability interventions are piloted and developed.
- Work alongside the Senior Delivery Manager to support successful delivery of agreed programme milestones and outcomes.
Essential skills:
- Experience supporting the delivery of complex programmes, projects or portfolios.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, with experience managing delivery plans, milestones and competing priorities.
- Experience managing and tracking risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
- Experience supporting effective programme governance, reporting and assurance processes.
- Ability to monitor progress against objectives, deliverables and timelines and follow actions through to completion.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn information into clear reports, updates and recommendations.
- Experience coordinating activity and inputs across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently, prioritise effectively and respond to changing delivery requirements.
- Experience maintaining accurate programme documentation and supporting continuous improvement activity.
- Experience working in local government.
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