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Senior Project Manager (up to 12 months maternity cover)

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Thanks for your interest in the Senior Project Manager (up to 12 months maternity cover) position. Unfortunately this position has been closed but you can search our 4 open jobs by clicking here.

Knowledge & Experience: 

Essential:

  • Managing large-scale/complex enterprise wide business transformation projects
  • Managing multiple work-streams
  • Proactive change management and delivery of service change
  • Managing multi-skilled teams operating in a matrix management environment
  • Managing senior stakeholders including SROs, Executive Teams
  • Project and Change Management methodologies, techniques and tools.
  • Educated to degree level or have substantial experience (min 5 years) in a relevant field
  • A recognised PPM qualification (MSP and/or PRINCE2)
Desirable:

  • Experience of managing projects within a public sector environment

Skills:

Essential

  • Project Management (scoping, planning and execution)
  • 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
  • Tact and diplomacy skills when managing sensitive issues in a discreet manner
  • Excellent commercial acumen
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Special Conditions

  •  The post holder will be contracted to work 36.5 hours per week but will need to be flexible to meet the demands of the post and may have to work outside normal core hours.
  •  The post holder will need to have the ability to travel to different locations across the region, as required

West Midlands Police are currently undertaking a long term review of staff pay and conditions.  The grade, pay and other terms of employment are therefore subject to review and may change in the future. 


 




 

 

 


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