Public Sector | 08-8-2024

Senior Project Manager

Contract Length: 2 years
Location: London / Leeds / Liverpool / Manchester / Birmingham & Travel to sites expected (Minimum 2 days per week)
Security Clearance: CTC – Must be in place at time of applying (or higher level clearances than this – SC or DV)

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Should have experience of effectively working through a diverse range of stakeholders, to achieve successful outcomes.
• Should have the ability to organise and prioritise delivery solutions in a continually changing environment, where appropriate to do so.
• Should have the experience of developing new ways of working, particularly when identifying and embedding best practice.
• Should have experience of identifying risk and implementing mitigation plans.
• Should have experience of delivering projects to a standard control framework process.

Specialist skills and experience:

• Knowledge and experience of drafting and presenting business cases, option appraisals and board papers.
• Knowledge and use of Government Soft Landings (GSL).
• Knowledge and experience in delivering projects through the industry standard of the RIBA digital plan of works.
• Knowledge and experience of good supplier relationship, contract and commercial management outcomes.
• Knowledge of sustainability policy and its application in property/projects
• Knowledge of the strategic direction and objectives in managing and improving the Government estate.
• Knowledge and use of construction contracts to deliver large scale projects, managing contractual claims and contractual variations.

Highly Desirable:

• Awareness of Government Property Profession.
• Experience in management of property disciplines e.g. Facilities Management, Sustainability, Health & Safety, Fire Safety
• Successful experience of delivering challenging programmes in a complex environment
• Understanding of and integration with the Government Property Profession
• Project or programme management qualification (e.g. Prince 2 or MSP)
• Knowledge or experience of implementing continuous improvement methodologies e.g. Lean, Six Sigma etc.
• Experience of delivering through project bank accounts and timely payment of supply chains through the requisition to pay process.
• Knowledge and use of PPC 2000, NEC3 forms of contracts and contract remedies.

Qualifications:

• Have, or be willing to work towards, a recognised construction qualification, such as the chartered institute of building (CIOB)
• Government Property Profession (GPP) Technical Skills