[Hiring] Senior IT Project Manager @Evolve Technical Recruitment

Role Description

The role is for a disciplined, tech-savvy and proactive IT Senior Project Manager whose strengths are in detailed planning, plan execution, analysis, governance, and senior stakeholder management. Managing multiple workstreams and project managers, ensuring delivery of multiple parallel critical paths.

• Plan and deliver projects across workstreams within the mobilisation Programme to fixed timelines.
• Support and drive all aspects of the project through the lifecycle, from definition through delivery to close, including schedule, budget, resource, quality, risks, issues, change, and stakeholders.
• Accountable for the use of standard project management products of plans, schedules, budgets, and reports for project delivery, ensuring transparency and accountability across projects and workstreams.
• Assist the Programme Director in Programme-level planning, reporting, or governance.
• Ensure quality of detailed plans and manage critical paths of projects and workstreams.
• Ensure managed delivery of detailed plans across projects and workstreams, including smoothing and float management, deconfliction, and critical path burn-down.
• Govern project delivery, including stakeholder reporting, change management, and issue resolution through structured frameworks.
• Ensure all Products defined in the plan are managed per the configuration management and change management processes.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, proactively resolving challenges to ensure smooth project delivery.
• Work with third-party Clients and Vendors to enable project delivery through stakeholder engagement and relationship building.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors, to ensure successful project execution.
• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, industry regulations, and business policies while continuously seeking process improvements.
• Lead lessons-learned initiatives to drive continuous improvement and innovation through the programme lifecycle.
• Assist Programme Director in Quality Gateway management, including preparing gateway assessments and managing governance meetings.
• Ensure communications and correspondence with internal teams, external suppliers, and clients are frequent and support the progress of the overall plan.
• Ensure all documentation is stored and updated in the master document register as required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of senior project management experience, with a strong focus on client-facing projects in IT, software development, consulting, or professional services.
• Experience of delivery in both waterfall and agile environments.
• Experience of managing large, complex (multiple critical path) plans across 12 months+ durations.
• Experience of managing multiple projects/workstreams in large complex Programme environments.
• Experience of applying analytical skills to break down complex scopes of work.
• Experience working with Agile, Scrum, and/or Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience of supply-side project management.
• Knowledge and experience of the Public Sector technology programmes.
• Experience of public sector business-oriented client stakeholders.
• Experience of working with operational teams in demanding, delivery-focused environments.
• Experience working with multiple external PMs.
• Experience of working in fast-paced projects with fixed go-live dates.
• Experience in managing Service Delivery Projects.
• Experience of delivering projects in a Cloud environment.
• Experience of managing project coordinators and multiple Project Managers.
• Capable of using initiative whilst understanding tolerances and boundaries for escalation.
• Experience of impacting change to a project and its resources as it occurs.

Requirements

• Proficient in the use of project delivery methodology, tooling, and artefacts.
• Capable of building Project plans, identifying resource requirements, critical path, and key tasks.
• Good written, oral, comprehension, and presentational skills.
• A good level of knowledge of IT systems, software development, and architecture.
• Intermediate/Advanced in Smartsheet and/or MS Project.
• Intermediate in MS Excel, including understanding of macros and Pivot tables.
• Intermediate in MS PowerPoint.
• Some experience using Jira KANBAN or other digital KANBAN.
• Good working knowledge of software, integration, and hosting technologies (Azure and IaaS virtualized).

Qualifications/Certifications Requirements

• Desirable: Degree Educated preferably in a technical subject.
• Essential: Practitioner in a recognised PM qualification or accrediting body (PRINCE2, APM, PMI).
• Desirable: Certified SCRUM Master.