Vacancy Description

Subject Area

Activities

Reporting and Administration

•         Scope new projects and work with the appropriate team to ensure that they are delivered in the optimal way.

•         Work directly with clients to understand their requirements and turn them into delivery plans.

•         Lead regular, concurrent project reviews with Engineering Teams to monitor the overall progress against the project schedule and deliverables.

•         Work with a range of stakeholders and provide advice and assistance to support adherence to project processes.

•         Produce monthly progress status reports as required by the business, utilising the corporate tools to provide evidence-based summaries.

•         Provide project planning and support on activities including bids and proposals, internal research & development, and customer funded development.

•         Stakeholder communications for project planning, delivery, and maintenance.

•         Provide and assist with maintaining the Resource Demand Plan, using tools available to produce and present data, that aids decision making and the effective management of resources.

Team Activities

·         Working hand in glove with the relevant Technical Lead

·         Involvement in stand-ups providing latest updates

·         Working alongside other teams to resolve known problems and on continual improvement initiatives

·         Helping assist with Urgent Requirements

Note - Line Management of the Delivery Team will be undertaken by appointed Technical Seniors.

Core Competencies

·         Enthusiasm for implementing best practice project management methodologies with a desire to deliver as per business

requirements.

·         Flexible approach and willingness to try new tools/techniques/methods.

·         Excellent attention to detail with strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to build a rapport across the business.

·         Ability to work individually or as a member of a multi-disciplined team.

·         Ability to create and lead positive working relationships with colleagues from all backgrounds.

·         Strong problem solving and enabling ethos/approach.

·         Highly organised, personable, with a demonstrable ability to manage a variety of tasks at one time.

·         Willingness to engage with the team and help contribute to shared goals.

·         Self-motivated.

·         Presents and conveys information clearly and articulately.

·         Good time management skills, with ongoing ownership of own deliverables as and when required.

·         Excellent communication skills (including generation of written content).

·         Ability to investigate and understand customer requirements.

·         Customer focussed

·         Lead improvements in our Project Reporting Management and ways of working.

·         Further expanding the capabilities of the toolsets already implemented to improve the richness of data and aid the effective management of projects, as well as identifying & assessing other tools which could be useful.

Technical

Competencies

The sections below outlines typical competencies that we are looking for. These are wide-ranging and represent the full cross section of capabilities that we seek. Prospective candidates should be able to demonstrate

ability in a number of the technical competencies (depending on grade/experience) and as a minimum, satisfy the core competencies as listed. We are not looking for full coverage across all of them in any one candidate.