Digital Project Manager
| Posting date: | 21 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,614 to £45,081 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 August 2025 |
| Location: | NE98 1YX |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 416900/3 |
Summary
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment continually looking to evolve?
If this sounds like you, this may be the perfect opportunity for you!
We’re looking for passionate Digital Project Managers who can hit the ground running and be responsible for end-to-end delivery in a demanding and exciting digital environment.
Our Digital Project Managers use a range of skills and methodologies, managing multi-functional delivery teams to deliver change, maintain our core applications and deliver new services that support the lives of millions of people.
We have many exciting opportunities for you to join us at DWP Digital, you will join a flourishing, supportive delivery community delivering some of the largest digital transformations in Europe.
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'.
- You’ll take ownership of full projects or parts of large-scale programmes, ensuring delivery was to agreed parameters of quality, time and cost, ensuring appropriate governance is followed. For example, plans, risks, issues and dependencies with effective escalation where necessary, owning them until they are resolved
- You’ll track and manage project progress and budget, providing helpful and accurate reporting to more senior project managers and/or governance boards. Actively managing change and governance for your projects, taking all cross-project impacts into account
- You’ll manage team dynamics, encouraging collaboration and shared ownership throughout the team. Deal with conflict and help establish a positive team culture
- You’ll build and manage stakeholder relationships across internal teams and suppliers, proactively identifying risks and issues and managing these
- You’ll communicate consistently across internal and external stakeholders, tailoring messages to ensure that it is right for the audience and consistent with broader project/digital messaging
- You’ll take responsibility for your own learning and development, continuously improving knowledge and skills in principles, methods, and tools as well as coaching and mentor Associates, identifying improvements in ways of working where appropriate
- All Synergy roles will be located in the Synergy Chief Technology Office (CTO) organisation and be responsible for managing aspects of technology delivery. Synergy is a cross-government transformation programme enabled by Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology and therefore with a strong emphasis on stakeholder management and cross-departmental collaboration. Experience in ERP implementation is desirable, although not essential for Synergy roles
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