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Pay Rate: Exceptional day rate at PAYE, with flexible holiday pay

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Location: Hybrid 2-3 days a week in the office in either Croydon, Bristol, Leeds or Manchester and at least once per week travel to London

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Interview Process: Teams Experience

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Description

We are looking for a Deputy Director, to work within the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Programme, leading on a large-scale transformation programme, who is familiar with the Government’s Project Delivery Standards, HMT’s Green Book guidance, and Government Digital Service’s (GDS) Service Standards and Technical Code of Practice (TCOP).

The Role

The Deputy Director Enterprise Resourcing Planning (ERP) programme is a pivotal role in the organisation and as a programme director for this large-scale transformation programme, they will need to be a visible leader, inspiring confidence and driving the modernisation of the Finance, Commercial and HR functions. Excellent Stakeholder Engagement will be essential, and it is expected that this role will provide progress briefings and assurance of delivery to the Permanent Secretary, Directors General, Executive Committee (EXCO), Board and Audit and Risk Committee (ARAC), other governance forums as required and to all GLD staff. An authoritative change professional, whose past experience has proven successes in delivering technology services into government departments, this role will bring enthusiasm and determination.

The programme is at a crucial point in its lifecycle, having completed the Outline Business Case and about to begin the procurement process. A robust plan is required to successfully deliver its outcomes and benefits. Bringing best practice and an adherence to government standards for project delivery, digital and security, will allow the development of a plan that will combine the efforts of suppliers, internal teams and specialist resources required to augment the programme for specific activities. Planning for Development, Testing, Business Change and Operational Readiness will be essential and success will be determined by the active engagement of the whole organisation in these plans.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Programme, which includes a programme team, core programme activity, Finance Project, HR Project and IT Project
• Resource the programme with skilled and capability contributors, building a delivery-focused, resilient and high performing team
• Finalise and gain approval for the ERP Final Business Cases (FBC)
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders. Engage regularly and communicate widely.
• Develop, gain approval for and deliver the plan for the Beta Phase, including development, testing, operational readiness and business change.
• Monitor and maximise the delivery of benefits, as detailed in the Final Business Case
• Coordinate delivery, ensuring robust workflows and technology interfaces are developed and implemented, between the ERP platform and current and future legal case management and practice management systems.
• Ensure that all relevant strategic, operational and programme risks are identified, mitigated and controls monitored
• Manage the ERP Programme Budget, ensuring reporting of forecasts and expenditure are reviewed and that any potential under or over-spends are alerted to the Finance Team as early as possible.
• Produce robust Management Information for the Programme Board, COO SLT, and EXCO.
• Support the development and establishment of the GLD Project Management Methodology with defined standards, documentation and Gate Lifecycle requirement.
• Routinely audit all projects for compliance to standards and methodologies, and conduct post implementation reviews to determine “Lessons Identified”, Return on Investment (ROI) and Benefits Tracking.
• Identify and ensure progress along the Critical Path between all activities of all projects within the ERP Programme and promote the Critical Path within the portfolio.
• Manage the ERP Programme Risk, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies and Decisions (RAIDD) and associated project logs, advising the senior leadership of the GLD of decisions that may need to be taken.
• Ensure that the ERP programme implements and adheres to all appropriate Government Functional Standards (in particular GovS 002, 003, 005, 006 and 007) and the Government Digital Service’s (GDS) Service Standards and Technical Code of Practice (TCOP)
• Ensure the programme works collaboratively with all functions and teams within GLD, especially Digital, Data and Technology professionals, delivering the highest quality outcomes as a result of collective design and delivery.

Key Outcomes

• The delivery of the ERP programme and its constituent projects to time, cost, quality and benefits criteria.
• Effective engagement and communication between Stakeholders, Business Systems Owners and the programme.
• Project Documentation produced to a high quality
• Business change and operational readiness is effective in order to allow the successful adoption of the new platform and working practices
• Post implementation and embedding activities identify learning for use in subsequent projects, learning can be demonstrated in subsequent project delivery

Experience

• Essential – must be demonstrated at application and interview
• Proven track record of successfully managing and delivering large scale transformation programmes incorporating delivery of new technology services
• Experience of delivering Enterprise Resource Planning systems
• Experience of implementing the Workday ERP system
• Experience of modernising Finance and HR functions and services
• Successfully completion of Government Project Delivery assurance gates
• Successful completion of Government Digital Service (GDS) service assessments
• Technical [Project Delivery – Programme Director SCS1]
• Essential – must be demonstrated at application and interview
• Stakeholder Engagement – Expert Level
• Governance – Expert Level
• Digital and Data – Practitioner Level
• Business Change and implementation – Practitioner Level

Job Ref: 7823

Anticipated Length of Assignment:Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.