14717 - Local Project Lead (Fixed Term Contract - 2 years)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 17 Chwefror 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £52,316 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 03 Mawrth 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | B18 4AS |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Ministry of Justice |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 14717 |
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Overview of the job
**PLEASE NOTE** This position is being offered on a Fixed Term Contract for an initial period of 2 Years.
The Project Lead is responsible for developing and influencing the strategic direction for the key project area, alongside the initiation, leadership and implementation of the project plan and key milestones. This is a strategic role that will involve influencing internal and external stakeholders to secure buy in to the project and ensure ambitions and benefits are realised. The Project Lead will be establishing, managing and implementing a range of key deliverables. The post holder will need to work flexibly to adapt to the changing landscape whilst ensuring the project remains a high priority across the organisation, despite competing demands. The Project Lead will be responsible and accountable for the effective delivery of the project, task managing and holding regular checkpoint meetings with multiple workstream leads. The Project Lead will be contributing to effective delivery across the programme due to the range of dependencies on structures and policies.
The need to ensure the rapid pace of change is maintained means the Project lead needs to be innovative and flexible in the way he/she provides project leadership and management.
The role needs to ensure that all processes are lean, fit for purpose and applied pragmatically ensuring that systems provide a balance between facilitating decision making and applying suitable governance arrangements.
Summary
Responsible for the development, implementation and management of appropriate governance structures and reporting arrangements to ensure that the Project is derisked and delivers its commitments within time, cost and quality.
The Project Lead works with senior stakeholders from within HMPPS and MoJ. The Project Lead is responsible for ensuring that the project undertakes suitable external scrutiny at key points.
The Project lead leads a small team to deliver effective management and specialist support to facilitate the smooth running of the project.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
• To be responsible for the overall definition and conduct of the project.
• Lead on the definition, implementation and management of appropriate project delivery arrangements providing an effective balance between control and support.
• Working with professional procurement and commercial colleagues to ensure all procurement and contracting activities are carried out on time and deliver effective contracts that support operations but also deliver value for money.
• Organise, chair, facilitate and support any stakeholder and working group meetings as well as ad-hoc meetings and workshops.
• Manage Project resources and prioritise work within delegated limits to deliver the necessary outputs.
• Manage the acquisition of resources for the project.
• Escalate issues to the Programme Board and other governance bodies where these are outside own remit to resolve or where there are conflicting issues or matters which could affect delivery of the project.
• Ensure stakeholders are kept informed routinely and at key milestones as appropriate. Manage the development and implementation of stakeholder strategy and management plans. Ensure communication plans and tools deal with the management of the difficult and sensitive messages to Staff (unions re: competition and in/out of scope arrangements).
• Ensure action owners are reminded of outstanding actions from Boards / sub-committees / working groups.
• Oversee planning with key work stream representatives and suppliers in relation to the activities required to be delivered by the project to produce a detailed and integrated work plan for the overall project.
• Escalate forecast slippage beyond agreed tolerances and propose remedial action in response, amending the project plan as appropriate.
• Responsible for ensuring the effective coordination of input to and maintenance and management of risks and issues logs for the project, ensuring risks and issues are fully articulated and evaluated and have an identified responsible owner; escalate those that cannot be managed or contained within the Project.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.
**PLEASE NOTE** This position is being offered on a Fixed Term Contract for an initial period of 2 Years.
The Project Lead is responsible for developing and influencing the strategic direction for the key project area, alongside the initiation, leadership and implementation of the project plan and key milestones. This is a strategic role that will involve influencing internal and external stakeholders to secure buy in to the project and ensure ambitions and benefits are realised. The Project Lead will be establishing, managing and implementing a range of key deliverables. The post holder will need to work flexibly to adapt to the changing landscape whilst ensuring the project remains a high priority across the organisation, despite competing demands. The Project Lead will be responsible and accountable for the effective delivery of the project, task managing and holding regular checkpoint meetings with multiple workstream leads. The Project Lead will be contributing to effective delivery across the programme due to the range of dependencies on structures and policies.
The need to ensure the rapid pace of change is maintained means the Project lead needs to be innovative and flexible in the way he/she provides project leadership and management.
The role needs to ensure that all processes are lean, fit for purpose and applied pragmatically ensuring that systems provide a balance between facilitating decision making and applying suitable governance arrangements.
Summary
Responsible for the development, implementation and management of appropriate governance structures and reporting arrangements to ensure that the Project is derisked and delivers its commitments within time, cost and quality.
The Project Lead works with senior stakeholders from within HMPPS and MoJ. The Project Lead is responsible for ensuring that the project undertakes suitable external scrutiny at key points.
The Project lead leads a small team to deliver effective management and specialist support to facilitate the smooth running of the project.
Responsibilities, Activities and Duties
The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties:
• To be responsible for the overall definition and conduct of the project.
• Lead on the definition, implementation and management of appropriate project delivery arrangements providing an effective balance between control and support.
• Working with professional procurement and commercial colleagues to ensure all procurement and contracting activities are carried out on time and deliver effective contracts that support operations but also deliver value for money.
• Organise, chair, facilitate and support any stakeholder and working group meetings as well as ad-hoc meetings and workshops.
• Manage Project resources and prioritise work within delegated limits to deliver the necessary outputs.
• Manage the acquisition of resources for the project.
• Escalate issues to the Programme Board and other governance bodies where these are outside own remit to resolve or where there are conflicting issues or matters which could affect delivery of the project.
• Ensure stakeholders are kept informed routinely and at key milestones as appropriate. Manage the development and implementation of stakeholder strategy and management plans. Ensure communication plans and tools deal with the management of the difficult and sensitive messages to Staff (unions re: competition and in/out of scope arrangements).
• Ensure action owners are reminded of outstanding actions from Boards / sub-committees / working groups.
• Oversee planning with key work stream representatives and suppliers in relation to the activities required to be delivered by the project to produce a detailed and integrated work plan for the overall project.
• Escalate forecast slippage beyond agreed tolerances and propose remedial action in response, amending the project plan as appropriate.
• Responsible for ensuring the effective coordination of input to and maintenance and management of risks and issues logs for the project, ensuring risks and issues are fully articulated and evaluated and have an identified responsible owner; escalate those that cannot be managed or contained within the Project.
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the job holder.