Project Manager (two roles)

The role:

As a Project Manager at the Gambling Commission you will be responsible for managing the delivery of projects that support our strategic priorities and licensing objectives. Working collaboratively across multi-disciplinary teams to achieve measurable outcomes you will play a key role in project planning, risk, governance and stakeholder engagement to ensure projects are delivered successfully, while contributing to continuous improvement and our ability to deliver change and realise benefits.

Your responsibilities:

• Create and manage the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Set project controls, design the project structure appropriate to stage and apply appropriate delivery methodologies.
• Work with the project team to coordinate and develop the business case, ensuring benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned.
• Identify key stakeholders and develop effective relationships.
• Identify and monitor project risks and issues and develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate
• Provide key stakeholder reports and support effective governance and decision making.
• Build the Project Plan, apply appropriate project principles to deliver stated objectives, track and report delivery against milestones.
• Schedule resources to deliver the project.
• Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.
• Follow the Gambling Commissions portfolio and project delivery frameworks and contributing towards its continuous improvement.

The above does not constitute an exhaustive list of duties. The post holder may be required to perform any reasonable tasks commensurate with the level of responsibility at the request of their Manager.

What were looking for:

Essential criteria:

• Experience of managing projects within a dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies, including a relevant project Management qualification (E.g., Prince2, APM).
• Applied knowledge of structured project management in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Experience of stakeholder management and engagement.

Desirable criteria:

• Knowledge of Government Functional Standard for Project Delivery
• Previous experience working in a Regulatory, investigative or Governmental organisation.