Project Manager Level 3
| Posting date: | 30 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £52,413 to £54,495 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Manchester City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6441 |
Summary
Join our ICT team as a Senior Project Manager in our ICT department - a service delivering the day to day operational management for all Council ICT systems, supporting digital objectives and transformational initiatives.. This is an exciting time to join the department as we've just launched our new Digital and ICT Strategy, and will be looking to reshape our ICT offer to take advantage of new technologies and techniques to deliver more for our colleagues and the citizens of Manchester.
Our ICT and Digital strategy sets out our vision for Manchester City Council:
To be a digital-first and cloud-first organisation.
Realign the ICT and Digital Service into a more strategic and influencing function.
Deliver secure, stable, and compliant operational services.
Innovate and influence new ways of working through modern technology.
Establish a customer focused ICT & Digital service with a seamless technology offer.
This role is focussed on supporting our Corporate Core directorate, though you may be asked to work on ICT programmes across the council. Within Corporate Core, we will be delivering a number of new programmes, which will:
help Manchester residents stay in their homes, or return there more quickly after illness;
help ensure all Manchester children are getting access to the education they need;
ensure the ICT systems in place to support our colleagues give them what they need when they need it.
To do this, we need someone with significant experience of project management, and technology. You will have extensive experience of ICT projects, and technology in general. You will be highly skilled at stakeholder management, and be able to demonstrate influencing skills. You will have experience of leading teams, both of direct reports and matrix managed, and providing management support and mentoring.
In addition, you will be experienced in managing internal and external resources, and managing suppliers to deliver to our needs. Most importantly, you will be excited about using technology to improve the lives of Manchester residents and staff.
For an informal discussion, please contact the hiring manager, Terry Lindsay, at 0161 234 1328 / terry.lindsay@manchester.gov.uk to arrange a convenient time to discuss the role.
About the Candidate
Essential requirements for the role:
●Project Management: Ability to develop detailed project schedules including the ability to develop and monitor project progress through the use of GANTT charts and other effective mechanisms. Ability to identify, assess and manage risks to the success of the project. Experience of working on projects within a project environment and to a structured project methodology
●Strategic Thinking: Evidence of thinking cross-functionally and cross-organisationally, beyond one’s own professional areas of specialism is important as is the ability to conceptualise new, collaborative ways of achieving shared goals.
●Planning and Organising: Ability to maintain focus and objectivity under various conditions and skill in managing and maintaining a multi-priority workload, progressing various ideas and plans concurrently.
●Communication Skills: Well-developed influencing and persuasive skills and ability to offer a persuasive argument both with internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve key project milestones whilst retaining a positive attitude. Proven ability in managing relationships with project stakeholders at all levels of seniority through effective communication.
●Strategic Planning: The ability to turn strategic ideas and objectives into practical, well organised plans with a focus on results, standards and objectives on time to quality, within budget and to re-prioritise, plan and organise own and others’ work effectively to ensure these are met.
●People Management: Effective development, management and staff motivation, providing strong leadership and direction to the team. Proven ability to secure and direct resources to fulfil work requirements over a wide area of service.
●Finance: Excellent financial planning skills to develop short, medium and long term financial plans with an ability to budget proactively with large, high-risk or volatile elements being identified and cross-referenced to operational activity.
●Commissioning Skills: An awareness of the role of commissioning in effective and efficient service delivery.
Desirable requirements that would be useful in this role:
●PRINCE 2 practitioner or equivalent
●Qualified to ITIL foundation level or willing to work towards
●Proven experience of successfully managing and delivering a wide range of complex ICT Projects within a diverse workload to a structured project management process.
●Change Management experience in a large complex organisation undergoing change
●Experience leading multi-functional and multi-skilled teams.
Our ICT and Digital strategy sets out our vision for Manchester City Council:
To be a digital-first and cloud-first organisation.
Realign the ICT and Digital Service into a more strategic and influencing function.
Deliver secure, stable, and compliant operational services.
Innovate and influence new ways of working through modern technology.
Establish a customer focused ICT & Digital service with a seamless technology offer.
This role is focussed on supporting our Corporate Core directorate, though you may be asked to work on ICT programmes across the council. Within Corporate Core, we will be delivering a number of new programmes, which will:
help Manchester residents stay in their homes, or return there more quickly after illness;
help ensure all Manchester children are getting access to the education they need;
ensure the ICT systems in place to support our colleagues give them what they need when they need it.
To do this, we need someone with significant experience of project management, and technology. You will have extensive experience of ICT projects, and technology in general. You will be highly skilled at stakeholder management, and be able to demonstrate influencing skills. You will have experience of leading teams, both of direct reports and matrix managed, and providing management support and mentoring.
In addition, you will be experienced in managing internal and external resources, and managing suppliers to deliver to our needs. Most importantly, you will be excited about using technology to improve the lives of Manchester residents and staff.
For an informal discussion, please contact the hiring manager, Terry Lindsay, at 0161 234 1328 / terry.lindsay@manchester.gov.uk to arrange a convenient time to discuss the role.
About the Candidate
Essential requirements for the role:
●Project Management: Ability to develop detailed project schedules including the ability to develop and monitor project progress through the use of GANTT charts and other effective mechanisms. Ability to identify, assess and manage risks to the success of the project. Experience of working on projects within a project environment and to a structured project methodology
●Strategic Thinking: Evidence of thinking cross-functionally and cross-organisationally, beyond one’s own professional areas of specialism is important as is the ability to conceptualise new, collaborative ways of achieving shared goals.
●Planning and Organising: Ability to maintain focus and objectivity under various conditions and skill in managing and maintaining a multi-priority workload, progressing various ideas and plans concurrently.
●Communication Skills: Well-developed influencing and persuasive skills and ability to offer a persuasive argument both with internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve key project milestones whilst retaining a positive attitude. Proven ability in managing relationships with project stakeholders at all levels of seniority through effective communication.
●Strategic Planning: The ability to turn strategic ideas and objectives into practical, well organised plans with a focus on results, standards and objectives on time to quality, within budget and to re-prioritise, plan and organise own and others’ work effectively to ensure these are met.
●People Management: Effective development, management and staff motivation, providing strong leadership and direction to the team. Proven ability to secure and direct resources to fulfil work requirements over a wide area of service.
●Finance: Excellent financial planning skills to develop short, medium and long term financial plans with an ability to budget proactively with large, high-risk or volatile elements being identified and cross-referenced to operational activity.
●Commissioning Skills: An awareness of the role of commissioning in effective and efficient service delivery.
Desirable requirements that would be useful in this role:
●PRINCE 2 practitioner or equivalent
●Qualified to ITIL foundation level or willing to work towards
●Proven experience of successfully managing and delivering a wide range of complex ICT Projects within a diverse workload to a structured project management process.
●Change Management experience in a large complex organisation undergoing change
●Experience leading multi-functional and multi-skilled teams.
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