Senior Project Manager

£395.52 per day

BS1 5TR

Leading the largest, most complex programmes and projects, the Senior Project Manager is directly responsible for the effective shaping, planning and delivery of the council's transformation projects with the broadest reach, the highest risk and the most significant budget.

To provide confident leadership and clear management so as to ensure the effective operational delivery of the service.

To provide confident leadership and clear management of significant and complex high-risk projects and/or programmes.

To contribute to strategic and operational development, drawing on the jobholder's specialist expertise.

1. Successfully shapes, plans and delivers programmes and projects (or a portfolio of related projects) on time, to budget and of the desired quality through effective application of the most appropriate programme and project management methodology/s.
2. Develops and manages business cases and budgets effectively and in line with Bristol City Council's financial procedures and regulations; accurately models benefits and manages actual/ forecast expenditure to within agreed tolerances and dealing with variances appropriately.
3. Develops and maintains a detailed, integrated, logical plan, often with complex interdependencies. Uses this effectively to deliver, evaluate, monitor and report on progress against agreed targets and to forecast delivery timescales, completion, resources and costs accurately.
4. Provides effective leadership to the programme or project team, enabling them to successfully deliver their own work packages or projects - through ongoing support and guidance on all aspects of project delivery.
5. Effectively manages risk through analysis, mitigation and contingency planning; where appropriate the post-holder provides senior stakeholders with clear analysis, options evaluation and recommendations to enable decision-making.
6. Sets realistic goals, defines success criteria and agree with key stakeholders, then monitors and reports delivery against this providing analysis and intelligence to support proactive troubleshooting in problem areas.

Focusing on the customer

Develops and embeds a culture that puts achieving outcomes for citizens and customers at the heart of what we do.

Leading one organisation

Works to create unity and coherence in service delivery.

Managing the political and stakeholder environment

Manages a complex stakeholder environment to get results.

Delivering results

Connects delivery on short-term objectives with progress towards long term outcomes.

Managing resources

Makes optimal use of radically limited resources and manages all finance and budgets to meet performance targets.

Building winning teams

Gets the very best from their people.

Collaborative working

Gets results through partnerships.

Communication and reputation management

Is an ambassador for the service and the Council.

Driving improvement & progress

Is an active source of innovation.

Promoting diversity

Understands the value of diversity and models good practice.

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