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 delivery)
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Risk and Issue management
• 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 ROCUWM
• 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

Successful appointment to the post is dependent on the preferred candidate successfully completing a management vetting process.

West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions.  As part of our commitment we operate a ‘Disability Confident Interview Scheme’ - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be offered an interview.  

It is important to note that there may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people who meet the essential criteria for the job. For example: in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. In these circumstances, the employer could select the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job, as they would do for non-disabled applicants.
 

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