Senior Project Manager (Social Care)

Our client is a large local government organisation and looking to recruit a Senior Project Manager to join their team

You will

You will be responsible for the following activities:

- Bring together and lead the resources needed to evaluate each of the available options

- Develop business cases for the proposals that emerge from the evaluations and progress these through the council’s decision-making processes

- Establish and maintain appropriate governance for the project, including progress reporting to the project board

- Updating and maintaining key project controls (e.g. plan, RAID log, budget management) using our project management software

- Reporting progress to Transformation Programme Director of Adult Social Care

You will need to

• Delivery of change within the Adult Social Care system, with an understanding of current ASC related legislation.
• Strong communication skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively to varied stakeholders, including Executive Directors and politicians. Therewill be a requirement for internal communications, public consultations and other project/programme related reporting.
• Ability to deliver and lead change workshops/consultations to large audiences.
• Significant experience of options appraisal and business case development
• Familiarity with public sector procurement, including preparing tender and contract documents, and securing and delivering Social Value outcomes.
• Ability to control budgets relating to allocated projects and achieve financial targets set out. This includes forecasting, monitoring, authorising, reviewing and controlling expenditure. As required perform commercial risk analysis, and value management activities and reporting.
• Experience in managing and securing relevant statutory, regulatory third-party and other approvals
• The postholder may be expected to work on site (Bristol) for specific areas of project work, i.e. consultations or team planning days.

PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS INSIDE SCOPE OF IR35

HYBRID WORKING IS AVAILABLE