G7 Project Manager - Croydon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Peregrine
Description
Join us a G7 Project Manager for our client the Home Office.
At Peregrine, we're always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Business Analysts in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector – we are always in search of the best talent to place, now.
How Specialist Talent Works:
At Peregrine, we find the best talent for our clients. As a permanent employee of Peregrine, with access to all our standard benefits, you will be deployed across our portfolio of clients as a specialist consultant, working on a wide array of complex projects across multiple industries.
The Role:
The Home Office Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Strategy is central to the organisations transformation efforts. It sets the direction for how we will deliver better services and organise our technology and data estate more efficiently. Within this there are many programmes, one of which being the DSA, which this role falls under. Our Data Services and Analytics (DSA) technology programme is our centralised service that oversees and manages data analysis and insights. It ingests data from multiple federated data stores and uses its search tool, Entity Search, and matching engine to stitch together common data to provide insight. The role will be to proactively manage a project to implement a time sheeting system (Mazetime) across a Business Unit. This role is for an experienced project manager with good understanding of all the core aspects of project delivery, and experience managing IT-based (Software) projects.
Responsibilities:
Planning & managing the end-to-end implementation of a SaaS timesheet solution across DSA, working alongside and coordinating our supplier and internal resources.
Project Plan & RAID management. (will be supported by our internal PSO resource).
Managing any change to time, cost, quality or scope.
Regular reporting and any escalations on project progress to the recharging lead and recharging steering group.
Delivery of a trial with 50 to 100 users, trial to begin within the first 6 to 8 weeks.
Lessons learned from the trial and any issues to be mitigated or resolved prior to full rollout.
Development of a detailed phased implementation plan to deploy the MVP to approx ~950 users.
Implementation of detailed phased implementation plan.
Development & implementation of plans for potential additional releases beyond the MVP.
Identifying the correct team within DSA to support the solution.
Ensuring the correct incident management, support processes and supporting administrators are in place.
Supporting the embedding of the solution within DSA.
Delivery of MI reporting/dashboards and reports from the solution. (This may require some bespoke development through the supplier and some in-house PowerBI development).
Skills & Experience:
Project Management
Project Delivery
IT/technical experience
Risk Management
Stakeholder Management
Frameworks & Methodologies
Governance
Proactive and pragmatic
Working as part of a delivery team
Planning experience
Team management skills
Public sector experience desirable
About us:
At Peregrine, we see beyond the immediate and look to the horizon. We build lasting, meaningful partnerships with our clients, and deliver flexible solutions for every resourcing need, both now and in the future. Together, we help our clients to engage, develop and harness the skills they need to achieve and grow the workforce they want. We have a range of benefits you will receive alongside your salary.
Our culture:
At Peregrine we embrace fresh ideas, and we love learning fast. Our solutions are trusted and established, so we have the confidence of knowing we have a solid foundation. We rely on openness and honesty, and we're always ready to help each other out. And we believe that our work can benefit society – whether it's finding the digital talent of the future or being a driver for social mobility.
Our commitment to diversity:
At Peregrine, we're proudly committed to championing diversity and inclusion, with company-wide initiatives to drive greater social mobility and reduce our environmental impact. Our teams represent a huge breadth of cultures, languages, and ethnicities, and over 20 different nationalities. We also employ candidates from a range of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our partnerships with numerous charities ensure that we can stay well-informed and continue to improve our practices for the future. It reflects in the way we recruit for our clients as we assist them in becoming more diverse.