Technical Delivery Project Manager
Role Purpose:
Ensure the successful delivery of technical projects by effectively managing resources, timelines, and stakeholder expectations. This involves:
- Planning and Execution: Developing detailed project plans, setting milestones, creation & allocation of tasks/work packages and ensuring that all project activities are aligned with the overall objectives.
- Team Leadership: Leading and motivating a team of technical professionals, providing guidance, and fostering a collaborative environment.
- Stakeholder Communication: Acting as the primary point of contact between the project team and stakeholders, ensuring clear and consistent communication.
- Risk and Issue Management: Identifying potential risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies, and resolving problems as they arise.
- Quality Assurance: Ensuring that all project deliverables meet the required standards and specifications.
- Budget and Resource Management: Managing project budgets, allocating resources efficiently, and ensuring that the project stays within financial constraints.
- Continuous Improvement: Conducting post-project evaluations to identify lessons learned and areas for improvement in future projects.
Delivering projects that meet or exceed stakeholder expectations, are completed on time, and stay within budget, while maintaining high standards of quality and technical excellence.
Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Educated to Degree level or an equivalent professional qualification, or possess the equivalent amount of relevant experience
- Advanced IT skills, especially in Microsoft Project/ Teams Planner, and the ability to fully utilise specialist software to aid analysis and report creation.
- Excellent technical understanding and experience of independently planning and delivering technical projects.
- Practitioner Certificate in PRINCE2
- Knowledge and experience of agile project management methodologies is desirable.
- Excellent report writing skills and oral communication/presentation skills.
- Budgetary and financial working knowledge and experience.
- An effective "team player" working closely with colleagues and managers at all levels within the organisation.
- Highly developed inter-personal skills with the ability to build and maintain a comprehensive network of contacts inside and outside the Force.
- Operate with integrity, tact and professionalism when handling sensitive data involving internal investigations.
- Self-motivated; able to work with minimal supervision, with good organisational skills and able to prioritise and meet deadlines whilst ensuring accuracy and attention to detail.
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