Completed applications must be returned to the following mailboxes hr-recruitment@npcc.police.uk & HRMailbox-.SecondmentsUnit@met.police.uk

We are seeking to recruit a number of experienced Project Managers, who will have responsibility for leading  on multiple projects across the NPCC landscape. Working at the centre of policing, on the biggest issues for the service, this is an exciting and challenging role where you can make a real difference. You will be required to manage your own portfolio of work, and lead projects utilising your own initiative. You will be highly solutions focused and a skilled problem solver who utilises your excellent project management skills to deliver projects from inception to delivery, with the support of the ODC/ CDAP team. You will regularly manage complex, high profile, politically sensitive work where decisions and delivery have national implications with the potential to impact on the reputation of the whole police service. You will need excellent interpersonal skills to establish and maintain credibility and effective working relationships with police chiefs, senior stakeholders and other NPCC staff.

If you have a passion for data analytics, then we have a unique Project Manager role available. The successful candidate will support our CDAP team, helping to define and support evolving analytic innovation that has been designed by policing, for policing. Within this role, the successful candidate will work on projects that could provide the potential for local delivery, and national insight.

The successful candidate would need to have the following experiences and skills:

1. Management of a project through its life cycle – planning, governance, reporting, benefits, resourcing and finance. Project design including the development of relevant initiation documentation (PID, business case or similar)
2. Project planning skills including the mapping of milestones deliverables and ongoing progress, using relevant project management products.
3. An understanding of benefits and experience of working with business area leads and SME’s to develop specific and measurable benefits.
4. Stakeholder mapping and management,
5. Development and articulation of risk and issues and working with respective SME’s to identify mitigation for those risks.
6. Provide project reporting in line with specific project requirements and cycles, ODC governance and assurance processes (e.g. RAG, financial data, workforce data etc), benefit management and the implementation of priorities.
7. Identify interdependencies and dependencies with other projects and workstreams within NPCC and wider landscape and report them as appropriate.
8. Demonstrable experience of delivering change projects within a complex environment.
9. Demonstrable ability to apply project management principles and pragmatically within the organisational environment.
10. Proven ability to work on own initiative, leading projects through their lifecycle – inception to completion.
11. Ability to design, manage and facilitate workshops, to deliver clear outcomes.
12. Written communication: proven ability to analyse and collate information to produce effective, clear, concise products and reports.
13. Excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels establishing credibility and influencing stakeholders.
14. Engaging and maintaining relationships with stakeholders to ensure effective project delivery and represent the NPCC and Strategic Hub.
15. Act as a point of contact for advice and guidance on NPCC organisational development and change.
16. Undertake other activities and changing demands of the ODC team commensurate with the post as may be required for the effective delivery of NPCC change projects.
17. Be flexible in terms of working location and be prepared to work temporarily at other locations and be prepared to travel when required.
18. Experience and understanding of working in a confidential and/or politically sensitive environment

Completed applications must be returned to the following mailboxes hr-recruitment@npcc.police.uk & HRMailbox-.SecondmentsUnit@met.police.uk