Job summary
*Job title: Project Manager - Service Design & Business Change
*Organisation: Unitary Authority
*Contract type: Permanent or 24-month FTC (up to you)
*Employment type: Full-time
*Working hours: 37
*Salary: £51,800 - £57,100 (depending on experience)
*Working Environment: Hybrid, average 2 days per week in office
*Location: South Essex, England
*Annual leave: 25 days up to 32 days - based on length of service
*Pension: Local Government Pension Scheme - one of the most generous pension schemes in the UK
*Additional benefits include wellbeing support, learning and development, and a range of salary sacrifice schemes.
Overview
A unitary authority nestled deep in South Essex is looking to recruit a Project Manager to lead on the delivery of critical service design and business change projects supporting the council’s transformation agenda.

Key responsibilities
*Project Delivery: Manage and deliver projects from start to finish within time, quality, and budget constraints.
*Stakeholder Management: Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders and project board members.
*Project Control: Ensure clear governance by managing project tolerances and utilising project standards and tools.
*Resource Coordination: Coordinate internal and third-party resources for successful project delivery.
*Risk Management: Identify and manage project risks with appropriate controls and escalation.
*Documentation & Communication: Deliver high-standard project documentation and communications.
*Project Planning: Develop and own detailed project plans to monitor and track progress.
*Project Leadership: Lead all project stages and development plans.
*Progress Monitoring: Monitor project progress and take corrective actions as needed.
*Reporting: Provide regular project reporting and updates.
*Budget Management: Manage project budgets.
*Dependency Management: Ensure dependencies on other projects are identified and managed.
*Transition Management: Manage the smooth transition of projects into operational business as usual.
*Strategic Alignment: Ensure projects reflect corporate strategic aims and deliver benefits.
*Quality Assurance: Provide quality assurance, project health checks, and performance monitoring, reporting to senior management as required.
Skills and experience
*Proven experience managing the end-to-end delivery of complex non-technical service design or operational/business change projects in a public sector organisation to a variety of customers, leading complex, high-profile, time-dependent projects to successful delivery.
*Experience working in a local authority or the wider public sector (NHS, health, blue light services) will strengthen your application.
*Excellent knowledge of project management tools and techniques, including stakeholder management, planning and dependency management, issue and risk management, and budget and resource management.
*Ability to manage resources in a matrix environment, coordinate and motivate others, which is essential to the success of this role.
*Experience in change management and business/operational readiness.
*Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
*Competence in financial management.
*Excellent MS Project skills and the ability to create robust project schedules with a traceable critical path
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