IS Programme Co-Ordinator

We have an exciting new role become available for an IS Project Co-Ordinator to work for Merseyside Police at their headquarters in Rose Hill Liverpool.

You will be working a contract for a year until February 2025 and will be office based.

PLEASE NOTE DUE TO POLICE VETTING CRITERIA YOU MUST HAVE RESIDED WITHIN THE UK CONTINUOUSLY FOR AT LEAST 5 YEARS AT THE TIME OF APPLICATION.

JOB PURPOSE: To define the user requirements of specific IT projects and to consider, propose and specify the project solutions which meet these requirements. To plan, co-ordinate and project-manage the implementation of specific IT application projects to the agreed specifications and to defined costs & schedules.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Define the requirements of nominated projects in a specific applications area to ensure the viability and efficiently of a proposed solution.
• consider and analyse these requirements with user and IT management and where applicable, external suppliers, in order to propose the IT solutions, including time scale, cost and possibly alternatives, which will meet the requirements.
• Design and specify agreed solutions to ensure IT standard methods are followed efficiently and effectively.
• Quantify the project resources, tasks and activities which will bring about a successful implementation of solutions on-time and within budget.
• Agree schedules with the IS Applications Manager so that sufficient resources will be delivered to projects.
• Co-ordinate, monitor and mange project resources, including external suppliers, to ensure that specifications are met and that projects stay on-time and within budget.
• Meet regularly with the project clients to report on project status and to ensure that expectations are being met.
• Report to the IS Applications Manager on the status of projects and any necessary changes due to re-specifications, result shortfalls or external factors.
• Manage pilot testing to ensure full compliance with agreed specifications.
• Manages acceptance tests in conjunction with Force Users and Management.
• Manage the hand over of completed projects to the IT Systems Support Group to the agreed specifications defined costs and schedules.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• The postholder will be educated to degree level or equivalent. Formal Project Management training is essential.
• The role requires at least five years' experience of implementing IT systems or similar projects
• Significant project management experience, at least three years, is essential to carry out major, and sometimes multiple, project management of the implementation of Force IT applications.
• The postholder must have the business analytical skills to understand the requirements of Force applications.
• General IT systems knowledge, particularly software implementation skills, are necessary so that meaningful solutions can be designed and proposed and the impact on other application systems can be weighed.
• Good interpersonal skills will be required to liaise with Force users, to discover their requirements and to convince them of the viability and efficiency of a proposed solution.
• Good person-management skills will be necessary to motivate and co-ordinate the activities of project staff and external suppliers who are not direct reports.
• Significant project management skills are essential to plan, co-ordinate and manage all resources allocated to projects, and attention to detail will be critical in monitoring the ongoing status of projects.
• The postholder will work across groups, departments and with external suppliers, and will facilitate multi-discipline meetings - therefore a diplomatic, but authoritative approach will be required.
• A strong negotiating manner will be required to manage user requests for change and to ensure that external suppliers meet specification and cost targets.

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