Digital Project Manager Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
24500
Location
Newcastle
Salary
Up to £39,674
Work hours
37
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 20%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more.
Closing date
3 January 2020
Job description
Digital Workplace Project. Digital with Purpose. DWP.
We’re looking for talented Digital Project Managers to join DWP’s Digital Workplace project and become a key part of one of the UK’s biggest and most high-profile digital transformation programmes. If you love solving problems and want to use your skills on projects with real impact, we’d love to hear from you.
We’re delivering a once-in-a-generation reform of products and services that will put world class technology solutions into the hands of the millions that use DWP services and our brilliant frontline colleagues.
What is Digital Workplace?
It’s big. Over the last two years diverse DWP Digital teams have established Digital Workplace, an agile and multi-disciplinary service that supports over 84,000 employees, using more than 150 distributed cloud applications, operating out of more than 800 UK sites, and powering digital products and services used by more than 20 million people across the UK.
It’s evolving. So far we’ve moved all of our systems to hybrid hosting, removing the constraints of previous outsourced IT contracts, modernising our legacy infrastructure and stabilising performance.
It’s about enabling our people through tech. We’re improving communication and collaboration with a mix of new hardware including mini-PCs, Surface Pro laptops and a growing mobile phone network. By upgrading our software with the latest versions of Office 365, Skype for Business and our rebooted staff intranet we’re making sure our people always have the right tools and the latest professional digital skills.
About your role
Brilliant Digital Project Managers are critical to the success of Digital Workplace, a massive internal transformation project which will shape the way DWP does business now and in future.
You’re an experienced project manager, so you know what this role looks like and what you need to bring to the job, managing risks, budgets and relationships to ensure successful delivery.
But you probably haven’t worked on change at this scale before, designing and setting up major projects, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary digital experts who have chosen to use their skills in an organisation that is driven by a desire to improve user outcomes and experience through digital solutions rather than by any profit motive.
What skills and experience are we looking for?
You will need the skills, knowledge and experience to be able to:
- Lead a project end-to-end ensuring that it is delivered on time, within budget and scope.
- Set the pace of delivery and manage a digital project.
- Manage and own risks, issues and dependencies
- Manage team dynamics, resolving conflict and encouraging open communication and collaboration
- Manage and build relationships with your teams, communicating consistently with relevant stakeholders and third party sub-contractors and coordinating activities across these groups
- Track and forecast project financials with the help of Finance Business Partners.
- Actively manage change control in the project, changing plans, scope and budgets
- Drive the creation and iteration of the business case
Where you’ll work
You’ll join us in our easy-to-reach digital hub in Newcastle. Find out more here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/
In Digital Workplace we believe in giving you a working experience that meets your needs and expectations and that means a focus on work-life balance, flexible hours, team-based working and the ability to work from multiple locations.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, disability, gender, race or sexuality.
Our Offer
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary Up to £39,674 brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working
- Family friendly policies
- Volunteering and charitable giving#
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Learning and development opportunities, career progression pathways, strong communities of practice, coaching, mentoring and lots more…
CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application. If you want to talk about this opportunity before you apply contact me via dean.simon@dwp.gsi.gov.uk