Senior Project Manager - Infrastructure Services inLeeds inLeeds PUBLISHED 12 NOV 2024

We are recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to work within the Technology sub-directorate at NHS England.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Managing the set-up and delivery of projects, working with colleagues and subject matter experts on the strategic planning, scoping, design and delivery.
• Manage the whole lifecycle of a project, reporting on progress and managing risks and issues, escalating where necessary to the project board.
• Develop appropriate, robust, information systems to ensure that all project documentation is stored and used effectively (PID, dashboards, highlight reports, risk and issues logs etc).
• Interrogate and analyse, sometimes highly complex, information to support the delivery of clear project reporting and project outcomes.
• Write and submit regular project reports for the programme board showing progress against milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations where a range of options may exist.
• Responsible for the delivery of specific projects agreed with NHS England and provide subject matter expertise around project management.
• Plans, supports and facilitates a range of projects within a programme structure or across a range of programme structures, where the post holder may need to consider interdependencies and mitigation of issues and risks.

• Managing the set-up and delivery of projects, working with colleagues and subject matter experts on the strategic planning, scoping, design and the delivery.
• Deliver significant projects for NHS England that supports system transformation and delivers corporate transformation across the new operating model.
• Manage the whole lifecycle of a project, reporting on progress and managing risks and issues, escalating where necessary to the project board.
• Develop appropriate, robust, information systems to ensure that all project documentation is stored and used effectively (PID, dashboards, highlight reports, risk and issues logs etc).
• Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned.
• Interrogate and analyse, sometimes highly complex, information to support the delivery of clear project reporting and project outcomes.
• Write and submit regular project reports for the programme board showing progress against milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies, making recommendations where a range of options may exist.
• Contribute to the development of key performance indicators and milestones for specific projects.
• Monitor and manage the budget effectively, acting in accordance with organisational financial policies and procedures.
• Provide expertise of best practice project management methodologies

About us

This role may be based in Leeds, London or Exeter.

See attached job description

• Responsible for the delivery of specific projects agreed with NHS England and provide subject matter expertise around project management.
• Plans, supports and facilitates a range of projects within a programme structure or across a range of programme structures, where the post holder may need to consider interdependencies and mitigation of issues and risks