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Project Manager – ICT
| Posting date: | 14 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £45,718 to £47,754 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 January 2025 |
| Location: | Ipswich, Suffolk |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ipswich Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REQ00908 |
Summary
Ipswich Borough Council is looking for a talented and passionate IT Project Manager to join our busy ICT Team in Ipswich. We want you to help us use technology to improve lives and deliver better services to our community.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and manage key ICT projects. Our current workload includes reviewing/replacing our ERP Finance and HR systems, modernizing our website estate and implementing numerous process automations.
You’ll be responsible for the full project lifecycle, from feasibility and planning to implementation and closure. This includes:
Managing project scope, timelines, and budgets
Gathering and interpreting technical requirements
Leading and motivating project teams
Managing stakeholder relationships
Ensuring projects deliver the expected outcomes and benefits
We’re looking for someone who is driven, proactive, and passionate about delivering results. You should have:
A degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
Significant experience managing complex ICT projects
A strong understanding of project management methodologies
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Experience in managing organizational change and supporting people through process improvements
A customer-focused and responsive approach that improves service delivery
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
For more information, please contact Howard Gaskin at howard.gaskin@ipswich.gov.uk.
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role: Job Description and Person Specification
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.
Please not CV’s are not accepted.
This is an exciting opportunity to lead and manage key ICT projects. Our current workload includes reviewing/replacing our ERP Finance and HR systems, modernizing our website estate and implementing numerous process automations.
You’ll be responsible for the full project lifecycle, from feasibility and planning to implementation and closure. This includes:
Managing project scope, timelines, and budgets
Gathering and interpreting technical requirements
Leading and motivating project teams
Managing stakeholder relationships
Ensuring projects deliver the expected outcomes and benefits
We’re looking for someone who is driven, proactive, and passionate about delivering results. You should have:
A degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
Significant experience managing complex ICT projects
A strong understanding of project management methodologies
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Experience in managing organizational change and supporting people through process improvements
A customer-focused and responsive approach that improves service delivery
As well as a good salary, we offer a career average pension scheme, generous holiday and sick pay entitlements, subsidised parking for work and leisure, public transport discounts, free swimming and gym membership, cycle purchase scheme, plenty of personal and professional development opportunities, flexible working, hybrid working opportunities, Employee Assistance Programme and the opportunity to work with great colleagues.
For more information, please contact Howard Gaskin at howard.gaskin@ipswich.gov.uk.
If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process, please let us know so that the appropriate arrangements can be put in place.
Please download the Job Description and Person Specification to find out more about this role: Job Description and Person Specification
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to interview candidates who meet the essential criteria prior to the closing date and / or to close the opportunity to applicants once we receive sufficient applications.
Please not CV’s are not accepted.
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