Senior Project Manager

The role:

A Senior Project Manager at the Gambling Commission you will be responsible for leading the delivery of some of our more complex or strategically significant projects. Providing leadership across multiple project and multi-disciplinary teams you will manage stakeholders, project governance and mitigate risk to ensure projects deliver to time, cost and quality.

As a Senior Project Manager you will also provide oversight and leadership to project managers within the Planning and Performance team, providing coaching and mentoring as necessary and assuring a consistent standard of project management delivery across the Commission.

Your responsibilities:

• Create and lead complex or strategically significant projects to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Provide effective leadership, management controls and design appropriate project structures, including delivery methodologies.
• Develop and draft the business case, ensuring appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the business case.
• Identify and manage internal and external stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support.
• Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependencies.
• Support effective governance and decision making. Ensuring assurance processes such as gateway reviews are in place and executed. Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations.
• Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders
• Develop and maintain Project Plan.
• Manage performance and report progress both at a project and portfolio reporting level
• Day-to-day management and leadership of project managers within the planning and performance team managing performance as well as providing support, guidance and coaching as required. Identify skill requirements; and deploy and develop resources. Manage a medium sized team.
• Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team.
• 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 complex projects within a dynamic and fast paced environment.
• Knowledge of project and programme management methodologies, including the relevant qualification (such as APM,Prince2, MSP, PLP, PMI)
• Applied knowledge of structured project management in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Experience of stakeholder management and engagement at senior levels (internal and external).

Desirable criteria:

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