IT Project Manager (Contract: InsideIR35)
Location: Denmark Hill, London (Hybrid, 2 days Office per week)
- Target Start date: 3rd March 2025
- 9 months contract (with possibility to extend if mutually agreeable)
- £350-400 per day. Inside IR35.
Role Description:
The IT Department supports the wide variety of services provided by the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to join the IT Projects team to manage and deliver several digital transformation initiatives for different parts of the organisation. The primary project the manager will be responsible for delivering is the tender and implementation of a new IT Service Management Tool.
The IT Project Manager will work with stakeholders to understand individual requirements, develop plans and confirm solutions. They will communicate with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery and adoption of the process and technical changes.
The UKI Territory has adopted industry standard project and programme management methodologies and expects IT and IT-related projects to follow PRINCE 2 project management methodology guidelines.
The Project Manager will need:
- Very good experience and demonstrable success in managing ITSM delivery projects, delivering them to agreed time, cost and quality criteria
- Significant experience of producing and maintaining project management documentation including project plans, RAID registers, and project status reports
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with a proven ability to communicate difficult or complex ideas clearly, often to multiple stakeholder audiences
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to negotiate, and develop strong, successful, collaborative working relationships both with colleagues and external suppliers
- Excellent organisational skills, methodical, attention to detail, effective time management and the ability to prioritise work, and be able to respond to tight deadlines both as an individual and as part of a team
- A recognised Project Management qualification such as Prince II