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You will lead the management of projects, typically (but not exclusively) involving the development and implementation of business processes to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales, and quality. Utilising Agile & Lean project management methodologies.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Working on multiple simultaneous projects
- Undertakes management of medium-large scale projects.
- Responsible for successful delivery from inception through to BAU
- Leads project planning, scheduling, controlling and reporting activities for strategic, high impact, high risk projects.
- Manages risk and ensures that solutions to problems are implemented in line with change control processes.
- Responsible for the definition, documentation and successful completion of complex projects (typically with significant business, political, or high-profile impact, and high-risk dependencies).
- Ensures that effective project control, change control, risk/issue/actions/dependencies management and testing processes are maintained.
- Monitors and controls resources, revenue and capital costs against the project budget and manages expectations of all project stakeholders.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS:
- Candidate should hold at least one of the following qualifications:
- PRINCE 2 Foundation & PRINCE 2 Practitioner
- PRINCE2 Agile Foundation & Practitioner
- Association of Project Management (APM) Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
- Significant experience in project management
- Held project budget management responsibilities of between £100K - £1 Million
- Matrix-Managed teams of at least 10 staff with line management of at least 3
- Experience of successfully delivering some level of business process change
- Must have worked on 5 Business Change Programmes or Projects
- Working with internal company staff members, external suppliers & external customers
- Organised, professional and with a "can do" attitude.
DESIRABLE SKILLS:
- Experience of working within UK Higher Education Institution
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Association of Project Management (APM) APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ)