Principal Project Sponsor - London, United Kingdom - Public Sector Resourcing

Public Sector Resourcing

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Principal Project Sponsor (Inside IR35)

Contract Term: 24 months

Contracting Authority:
Ministry of Justice (MoJ)

Location:

National (with access to Leeds or London)**The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background.

Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government's ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.

This role is in conjunction with the Home Office.

As a Principal Project Sponsor your main responsibilities would be:

Working at pace with a range of end users across the Home Office's Asylum, Protection and Enforcement Directorate, to develop project proposals at mandate through to timely completion, within budget envelopes; evidencing value for money solutions and benefits realisation.
Leading a team of designers, planning consultants, professional consultants and ultimately constructors in the successful construction of new IRCs for Home Office, to health and safety, time, quality and cost constraints
Working across departments to coordinate input from other inhouse specialist teams including commercial and technical specialists.
Timely assurance and submission of individual project option appraisals, feasibility reports, business cases and board papers; driving design innovation.
Timely procurement of supply chain resources.
Setting direction and managing performance levels of supply chain partners, through setting out clear performance indicators, at the same continually challenging resourcing proposals.
Identifying risks and issues, ensuring compliance and making sure mitigation plans are in place; managing early warning notices and chairing core groups when contractual remedies are required.
Embedding wider efficiency targets set by the Cabinet Office and IPA, such as the implementation of building information modelling, modern methods of construction, government soft landings by the inclusion of FM professionals; and collaborative procurement, particularly early contractor engagement and project bank accounts.
Regularly holding to account senior project sponsors, delivery partners and constructors in making sure all key project milestones are on track, all policies are considered (such as sustainability) and all project reporting is assured and submitted on time; at the same time assuring all actively is managed in line with the project control framework controls.
Ensuring lessons learned carried out as best practice and findings are collected and distributed across stakeholder groups, including technical services, FM, commercial, and post project evaluations are conducted and recorded.
Line management and leadership of a team, providing strong professional direction.
Frequent travel will be required across England and Wales.

You'll have relevant experience in:

At least five years of project director / senior experience delivering largescale accommodation &/or infrastructure projects
Effectively working through a diverse range of stakeholders, particularly at senior levels, to achieve successful outcomes
Organising and prioritising delivery solutions in a continually changing environment, where appropriate to do so; fully utilising allocated budgets
Developing new ways of working, particularly when identifying and embedding best practice.
Identifying risk and implementing mitigation plans.
Drafting and assuring business cases, option appraisals, board papers, and contributing to PQs, FOI and Ministers cases.
Delivering complex projects at pace.
Use of NEC3/NEC4 (preferable), PPC 2000, or JCT forms of contracts.
Use of the RIBA digital plan of works.
Good supplier relationship, contract and commercial management outcomes.
Strategic direction and objectives in managing and improving the Government estate.

Desirable:

Ideally experience managing projects with a Capital spend of typically £50m+ per project.
Awareness of Government Property Profession.
Experience working with modern methods of construction.
Awareness of the Government Construction Playbook.
Experience working with toptier UK contractors.

Qualifications:

Have, or will be working towards a recognised construction, engineering or surveying qualification.
Have, or will be working towards professional membership of a recognised construction, engineering or surveying body such as the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.- Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not O