Senior Project Manager (up to 12 months maternity cover)
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)
- 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
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.