Project Manager
Knowledge & Experience:
Essential:
- Managing
business transformation projects
- Managing
multiple work-streams
- Proactive
change management and delivery of service change
- Project
and Change Management methodologies, techniques and tools.
- PRINCE2
Practitioner or equivalent project management training
- Educated
to degree level or have substantial experience (min 2 years) in a relevant
field
Desirable:
- Experience
of managing projects within a public sector environment
- Managing
multi-skilled teams operating in a matrix management environment
- Managing
senior stakeholders including SROs, Executive Teams
Skills:
Essential:
- Project
Management (scoping, planning and
- Problem
solving and analytical
- Risk
and Issue
- Ability
to prioritise and manage conflicts (people and tasks)
- Networking,
engagement, persuasion, influencing and communications skills
- Written,
oral and presentations skills
- Ability
to show tact and diplomacy managing sensitive issues in a discreet manner
- Strategically
aware with the ability to see the ‘bigger picture’ but able to translate
and describe in detailed plan form
- Excellent
leadership and people management skills
- Ability
to build effective collaborative relationships with a wide range of
professionals within and around West Midlands Police
- Coaching
and mentoring skills
- Ability
to understand the strategic aims and objectives of the organisation and be
able to work at a strategic level with Chief Officers and other senior
members of staff
- Strong
numerical and verbal critical reasoning ability in order to think
strategically, logically and clearly, and to take rational decisions and
decisive action under pressure
- Ability
to analyse both qualitative and quantitative information
- Ability
to identify the wider implications of any change and the
inter-dependencies between different initiatives
- Possesses
a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Experienced
and competent in the use of MS Office applications (specifically Project,
Sharepoint, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Desirable:
- Commercial
acumen
- Ability
to lead multi-disciplinary and multi-agency groups to achieve the optimum
outcome for all parties.
- Ability
to set plans at a strategic level incorporating aggressive timescales and
manage to successful completion