Junior Project Manager - #66646

Venesky-Brown


Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Glasgow
Contract type: Contractor
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow with offices throughout Scotland, is currently looking to recruit a Junior Project Manager until the 30th of November 2024 on a salary of £38,297-£44,613/annum. This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain project plans, exercising change control when appropriate, to ensure that agreed project timescales are adhered to
  • Lead small projects or sub project activity, to ensure that the project delivers on time, to budget and that project interdependencies are identified and actively managed
  • Identify and manage emerging challenges, risks and issues which may impact the successful delivery of the project, initiating or escalating corrective action as appropriate
  • Work with the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) to ensure all change is embedded across the organisation and partner organisations to enable realisation of identified benefits
  • Responsible for the accurate and timely reporting of progress against all plans to the relevant project meetings
  • Adhere to Project Governance protocols to support the smooth running of the project, completing all required reporting
  • Support the development of the project communications plans with corporate communications leads
  • Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders and represent your project activity at relevant meetings
  • Maintain awareness of the EIS Strategy that influences the successful delivery of the project
  • Manage third party supplier contributions to projects where applicable
  • Responsible for monitoring project budget spend
  • Responsible for regular, accurate updating of the project risk register
  • Ensure EIS project management methodology is followed on all project delivery that you are responsible for
  • Work with the Head of PMO on improving project reporting, governance and statistic

Essential Skills

  • Demonstrable work experience equivalent to SCQF level 9, or be educated to degree level in Project Management or any Business-related subject such as Economics, Management, Marketing, Business Management, IT, or any other degree with strong project management elements
  • Confident and competent in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling projects
  • Good communication and presentation skills
  • Customer and solutions-focused, strong problem-solving, analytical and critical thinking skills
  • Planning and organisational skills; ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously
  • Interpersonal and influencing skills to ensure the most effective and efficient delivery of the project
  • An ability to build and maintain strong working relationships
  • Works with attention to detail and high level of accuracy
  • Highly motivated/enthusiastic and driven

Desirable Skills

  • Experience of managing streams of project activity or small projects
  • Qualified in Project Management methods including PRINCE2, APMP, PMP or equivalent PM methodologies gained within their degree
  • Familiar with change management principles and/or experience or qualifications in change management methodology
  • Experience of working on IT projects or within an IT environment
  • Confident and competent in Microsoft Project and Visio
  • Able to foster a culture of trust and co-operation and team working
  • Effective networker
  • Customer Focussed
  • Adaptable to changing working environments

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