IT Programme Manager Needed!

I am currently supporting one of our Nottingham based Financial Services clients who are looking to bring on a Programme Manager till the end of March with scope of extensions. You will be required to go into the Nottingham office a couple times a month and my client can pay up to 690 per day inside IR35 via an umbrella.

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

Project and Programme Management:

• Delivery of projects & workstreams according to agreed time / budget / scope / quality / change control criteria.
• Defining, sourcing and managing the necessary resources to complete these workstreams and sub-projects, making timely changes where necessary to achieve objectives.
• Ensuring the development of accurate plans and budgets, finding improvements to efficiency and effectiveness in the use of resources, reporting variances to senior management where there is likely to be a significant impact on agreed delivery parameters.
• Effectively controlling the issues, risk, dependencies and changes in scope associated with large, complex projects, ensuring timely intervention and communication to stakeholders.
• Conducting regular reviews of outcomes, both internally with delivery team and with clients / senior stakeholders during and after the delivery has been completed
• Acting as an escalation point, providing support and guidance to PMs across multiple workstreams

Operational

• Establish project and workstream assurance as a formal discipline
• Proactively identify issues through the use of standard assurance techniques; audits, plan reviews, etc. Provide suggested remedial plans as appropriate
• Ensure there is sufficient capability and capacity within the function to conduct assurance reviews
• Provide regular reports on project and workstream performance and overall portfolio health
• Provide confidence that projects and workstream will deliver to time, cost and quality
• Provide ongoing assurance at project and programme level

People Management (No Direct Reports)

• Contribute to people management process through assignment management of colleagues allocated to the project
• Drive Elevate Performance; ensuring that all project team members have stretching project objectives to embed a high performance culture.
• Acts as a role model, displaying a positive enthusiastic, can-do approach in the face of adversity

Regulatory, Governance and Control

• Adhere to all regulatory requirements within area of responsibility and escalate issues quickly.
• Pro-actively identify risks and take steps to mitigate these.
• Ensures team members understand the importance of adhering to their regulatory obligations and responsibility for implementation of company policies and procedures.
• Ensure team members understand the operating model and the functional and individual responsibilities

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Strong understanding and application of Project and Programme Management competencies including stakeholder management, contracts, scope, schedule, costs, quality, HR, communications, risk, procurement, and integration
• Experience managing technical projects and programmes and ability to collaborate with technical SMEs and delivery teams
• Strong understanding and application of change management competencies
• Effective leadership, coordination, motivation, negotiation and dispute resolution skills
• Strong ability to manage relationships whilst maintaining trusted relationship with team and peers
• Strong understanding of business requirements and technical limitations as determined by the organisation's systems and processes

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