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Senior Project Manager
| Posting date: | 06 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 November 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8XP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9287-25-1805 |
Summary
Provide project management expertise and advice within in the Directorate/organisationHave direct responsibility for a number of projects, for the full lifecycle from initiation to project closure, taking a lead role on high priority/critical projects.Oversee the successful delivery of a number of projects managed by members of the wider project team.Ensure that all projects are managed in accordance with PRINCE2 Project Management standards.Ensure that each project is supported by a robust governance structure.Monitor the progress of the project against the original business case and project initiation document, ensuring where necessary the project is able to adapt to changing requirements and that plans are adjusted accordingly so that the deliverables are on time, to specified quality and within budget.To analyse and evaluate many highly complex and diverse conflicting issues associated with the completion of a project, which requires the analysis interpretation and comparison of a range of options and decide how resources are to be used. Including within this is the management of key interdependencies with other projects. Be responsible for developing and tracking the progress of project plans, including resource planning, using approved software.Ensure regular reports are provided to appropriate stakeholders as defined within the program governance.To identify and manage risks and issues associated with the project(s), including the development and implementation of contingency plans.Ensure all system implementation plans are synchronised with training and infrastructure commitments and include post implementation review plansEnsure that appropriate business re-engineering activities take place, where appropriate, to support the successful delivery of the key outputs of the projectEnsure that appropriate plans, documentation and procedures are in places when handing a project over to business as usual as part of project closure.Where required, to work with other managers and attend meetings with other organisations, to discuss project priorities and progress.To make routine presentations, covering complex issues to groups of staff on topics associated with programs/projects and to demonstrate systems to users when necessary.Represent other departmental managers at meetings, events, seminars, or progressing tasks where this is appropriate.Serve as the primary liaison between research teams, senior managers and external partners/funders.The postholder will be required to contribute to the development and implementation of Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors within the DirectorateThe postholder will be required to monitor and manage delivery against these targets and produce regular management update reports detailing performance levels and provide supporting information to explain improvements or degradation in service and action taken to resolve situations and to achieve progress.The postholder will liaise with others to ensure they are briefed and up to date on any performance issues.The post holder will work to achieve agreed directorate objectives and is given freedom to do this in own way working within broad professional & local policies.Provide full support for internal and external audits of their project(s) and act on recommendations as appropriate.Ensure that Post Implementation Reviews and Lessons Learned activities are initiated on completion of projects and are acted on to inform all future work.Dedicate the required concentration required to collate, analyse, check and report on complex information, while coping with ongoing project issues and interruptions