Senior Digital Project Manager
| Posting date: | 17 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £52,412 to £63,517 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 July 2024 |
| Location: | City Of Manchester, Greater Manchester, M2 3LR |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | DWP Digital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 357012_1718629822 |
Summary
Senior Digital Project Manager: Pay up to £63,517 plus 28.9% employer pension contributions, hybrid home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
- Are you an experienced IT/Digital Project Manager seeking new challenges?
- Do you want to work in a supportive, fast-paced project environment?
- Do you want to work on projects that improve the work experience of thousands DWP colleagues and help them provide better service to millions of people?
We have exciting opportunities for Senior Digital Project Managers to join us at DWP Digital, you will join a flourishing, supportive delivery community delivering some of the largest digital transformations in Europe.
Our Specialist Devices Team within Digital Workspaces oversees macOS and physical/virtual environments for 3,000 Engineering users and 8,500 customer computers.
DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year, to support millions of daily users.
The scale of what we do is outstanding, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.
Delivery. Work. Projects.
As Senior Digital Project Manager, you'll take on the challenge of leading the end-to-end delivery of large-scale complex digital changes.
We'll look to you to ensure project controls are in place - you'll be managing plans, risks, issues, and dependencies. As well as people.
You use your skills in varied stakeholder environments, set the pace for delivery, collaborating with internal teams and external suppliers to get the best outcomes.
You'll take ownership of full projects. Sometimes you'll be working on something really big where you'll own smaller parts of large-scale programmes and plans.
You will manage team dynamics, coach teams for improved flow, quality, and ownership, and foster a positive team culture.
We empower our people to own their own learning and development. The project management practice is a great place to grow your skills in your core areas, digital frameworks and new technologies, in whatever way works best for you.
In this role you will lead the team on the following portfolio:
- Improvements to the Engineering Platform supporting 3,000 users developing solutions for DWP.
- Solutions to separate access between production and non-production environments for specific users.
- Assessment and delivery of a new solution for the 8,500 Customer Computers, based nationwide in all Jobcentres.
What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?
- You have experience in taking full responsibility for defining, documenting, and completing large-scale complex projects, using internal and external suppliers.
- You know how to ensure effective project control, change control, risk management, and testing processes, responding appropriately to data insights.
- You understand the environment and can prioritise high-value tasks, using data for planning and managing complex dependencies.
- You communicate clearly, honestly, and enthusiastically to build trust, explaining complex issues in an understandable way to influence senior level decisions.
- You identify appropriate development opportunities for yourself and your team to improve delivery.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You'll join us in our brilliant digital hub in Manchester.
We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model with a mix of home working and sometime in the office.
In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay from £52,412 to £63,517.
You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%.
You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 days, plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take extra days off on flexi leave.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
- Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
- Family-friendly policies
- Time off volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
- Sports and social activities
- Working in an award-winning environment and culture
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.
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