Transformation Project Manager

Transformation Project Manager

Location: The designated office base is Abbey House, Abingdon. The councils operate in a truly flexible, and hybrid way where the focus is on outcomes not where you work.
Salary and grade: £48,530 per year, Grade 7
Duration of role: Permanent
Hours per week: 37

Closing Date: Sunday 30 June 2024 (midnight)

Future transformation activity at the Councils is fundamental to our ability to enable our staff and services to meet and deliver the forthcoming Corporate Plans over the coming months and years.

As a Transformation Project Manager, you will be at the heart of our response to the challenges we face, delivering cross-cutting, strategic projects and supporting senior leaders to take key decisions about the form and function of future service delivery in South Oxfordshire and the Vale.

The successful candidate will work across teams and services, initially working with our Planning and Environmental Services teams to onboard new IT systems enhancing the efficient running of the services and the quality of management reporting whilst engaging users to make the most of the system and information at their finger-tips.
We’re looking for an excellent communicator, who can build trusted working relationships, exercise patience and take users step-by-step through significant changes to working practises, who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and who maintains a focus on strategic project objectives, seeing projects through to a successful handover.

If you are tenacious, resilient, determined, committed to public service and to always working with the utmost integrity, we hope you will read on to see if this role could be for you.

About you

Your essential skills

• Leadership - the ability to empower and inspire others to deliver successful change initiatives by providing vision, direction, feedback and support, so people can do their best work.
• Change management – the ability to structure and organise change initiatives in alignment with corporate policy, taking account of stakeholder views, time and resourcing constraints.
• Stakeholder engagement– politically aware, emotionally intelligent and able to resolve conflict between stakeholder groups, adapt communication to liaise with senior colleagues, external partners and internal teams as required.
• Project team-building - the ability to deliver through others, identifying and developing multi-disciplinary project teams and establish project governance structures through which project delivery can be monitored and supported.
• Outcomes focused – the ability to interpret and convey to stakeholders what good looks like and plan delivery to secure quality standards and the realisation of benefits along with the evidence of their delivery.
• Problem solving – takes ownership of issues, demonstrates resourcefulness, creativity and timeliness in proposing and motivating support for solutions
• Financial management – the ability to interpret financial data, track and report budgets and estimate the financial impact of a project.
• Risk management - the ability to identify and monitor risks (threats and opportunities), plan and implement responses
• Digital fluency - quick to adopt new and digital ways of working, continually seek to enhance data security and productivity through effective use of digital systems.
• Report writing – the ability to write reports to support decision making, including business cases and project definition documents
• Methodical and organised – the ability to adopt and execute a consistent approach to recording and conveying project activity.

Your essential knowledge

• Knowledge of a broad range of programme and project management techniques
• Awareness of the Local Government working environment and decision-making processes

Your essential experience

• Two years’ experience managing programmes and/or projects
• Your essential qualifications
• Programme or Project Management Qualification such as MSP, Prince 2, APM, Agile etc.

The benefits we offer

• A basic 25 days annual leave per annum, rising to 30 days after five years. You also have all the bank holidays to look forward to and time off between Christmas and New Year.
• Flexible working and annualised hours – a flexible approach to work that our employees love!
• Salary pay awards – most jobs give scope for a pay increase after six months or the following April (depending on your start date) and we also review salaries each April.
• A generous career average pension scheme which includes life insurance of three times your salary
• The opportunity to purchase a bike through Cyclescheme (cheaper than directly through a store) so that you can cycle to work!
• Various schemes to keep you healthy (reduced gym membership, free swims, free eye tests for DSE users and more)
• We give you two days per year to volunteer within the local community.
• A range of resources, support, and activities to help you maintain your wellbeing including a monthly wellbeing hour in addition to annualised hours (the ability to work flexibly as long as, over the course of the year, you complete your contracted hours) and annual leave.

You may also have experience in the following: Project Manager, Site Manager, Programme Manager, Project Management, Business Improvement, Stakeholder Management, Consultant, Transform Manager, Stakeholder Engagement etc.

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