Project Manager Digital 11month FTC

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Project Manager (Digital)Nottingham£40,000 - £49,000 + benefitsJob purpose:A leading academic organisation are looking for a Project Manager to lead medium to large teams of resources from Digital Technologies (DT) and at times managing contractors and consultants from third-party organisations. In addition, the post holder may manage and/or mentor trainee project managers and mentor staff (both within and outside of Digital Technology) leading projects.Youll be responsible for managing the delivery of multiple medium to large business, Digital, Estates (Technology Workstreams) or Support projects, typically involving the development and implementation and/or integration of one or more systems to meet specific business needs; within agreed objectives for benefits, risks, quality, scope and estimates of costs, timescales and resource requirements.Responsibilities: Manage project start-up, initiation, delivery and closure activities, to ensure business and technical solutions are strategically aligned and moved seamlessly into operation:* Ensure that project objectives are agreed, and that resources are booked to deliver the project to these objectives.* Ensure there are processes defined and followed for change, risk and quality management for your projects, including up-to-date project, risk, and quality plans.* Ensure that project deliverables continue to meet those specified in the business case, taking corrective action, maintaining up-to-date plans and associated governance documentation. This includes robustly managing business-owned (i.e. non-DT) deliverables.* Manage project changes with Product Owners, ensuring that new requirements and deviations from planned objectives (e.g. benefits and the business case) are managed so that projects are still completed as agreed and changes are signed off by appropriate sponsors.* Maintain effective financial and project progress forecasting, planning and reporting.* Use lessons learned from previous projects and also record and act on new lessons as your projects progress.* You will proactively liaise with stakeholders at the highest levels within the organisation, managing their expectations of projects. This includes pitching communications at the correct levels, tailoring your approach and strategy in order to achieve Project Sponsor/Executive and Project Manager delivery alignment.* Develop and maintain resource plans for project teams, working with Resource Managers and Service Owners to: obtain resources, identify resource conflicts, negotiate priority- based decisions with the stakeholders and escalate conflicts for resolution removing blockages to achieving delivery.* Maintain a detailed knowledge of current practice within your areas of expertise and adhere to DT project management related processes including the PPS reporting timetable and configuration management strategy.Interested Submit your CV now!Certes Computing (and all of its subsidiary companies) is committed to promoting equality and diversity in its business operations.