Join us as a Project Manager within the Home Office ??? G7 Level

(Manchester; Central London, Permanent)

About Capita

At Capita, we support clients across a range of sectors, including local Government, central Government, education, transport, health, life and pensions, insurance and other private sector organisations. We support with expertise applied by the talent across our business in combination with technology, insight and analytics to keep our clients ahead of change, sharper than competitors and more efficient than ever ??? and we always need new talent to help us achieve our goals.

Why Join Home Office?

This role is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and innovative person to be at the forefront of change in one of the great Departments of State. We are delivering significant transformation in order to continue keeping our citizens safe and our country secure. New technology and the fast-evolving nature of the threats we face mean we must adapt, and adapt fast, and with the UK leaving the EU, the need for change is greater than ever.

Project Managers provide a key role delivering the Home Office Transformation Portfolio. It is large, complex and challenging and encompasses over 20 major and/or mission critical projects and programmes plus four business portfolios of change. There is a strong focus on agile, modular project delivery, supported by enterprise-wide portfolio management and you could find yourself working on a project for the UK???s critical national infrastructure through to a complex technology enabled business change programme.

The Role of a Project Manager

This role is for a G7 project manager to support planning and delivery of the COPO Programme within the National Communications Data Service (NCDS). Successful candidates will have the opportunity to play a key role in fast paced and complex deliveries vital to ensuring the continuity of critical national services which support law enforcement in their mission of tackling serious and organised crime. 

The COPO Programme is the implementation of Crime Overseas Production Orders. The environment is fast paced and involves co-ordination across multiple strands, sometimes using different methodologies (i.e. waterfall versus agile). This is a high profile, high visibility programme and would suit someone used to that sort of environment.

Essential Criteria:

• Project management
• Planning and scheduling
• Monitoring and reporting
• Risk and issue management
• Change control
• Stakeholder management
• Governance

Desirable Criteria:

• High profile / visibility project experience
• Assurance
• Commercial awareness
• SC Clearance

Expected Qualifications and Professional Memberships include:

PRINCE2 (Practitioner)Agile Project Management (Practitioner)APM Qualification (Practitioner)APM Registered Project Professional

 

Typical Role Responsibilities:

Delivery ??? Create and lead the project to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraintProject Management ??? Day to day management and leadership of the project and the project team. Provide effective leadership and management controls. Set project controls. Design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage. Set appropriate delivery methodologies. Manage effective transition between project phasesReporting & Analysis ??? Gather information and present progress on reportsPlanning and Dependencies- Support the development of panning, control and information management within workstreamsBusiness Case ??? Develop and draft the Business Case, with input from specialists as necessaryBudget Control ??? Develop the budget and track delivery within budgetResources ??? Identify skill requirements; and deploy and develop resources. Manage medium sized teamBenefits Realisation ??? Deliver the agreed Business Case benefits and outcomes. Ensure appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the Business Case.Stakeholder Management ??? Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support. Manage internal and external relationships as appropriate.Risks & Issues ??? Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependenciesGovernance ??? Support effective governance and decision making. Provide reporting and engage in mechanisms that hold you, as Project Manager, to account for deliveryAssurance ??? Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations. Organise assurance processes such as gateway reviews, as requiredChange Management ??? Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholdersGuidance and Support ??? Provide support, guidance and coaching for the project team. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performanceProject Performance and Controls ??? Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team. Develop and maintain Project Plan. Identify and set appropriate Project Controls. Manage performance and report progress to sponsors

Please note successful applicants will be expected to go through vetting and Security Clearance

We look forward to hearing from you and wish you the very best of luck with your application.