Employee Experience - Blackpool

Job summary

In this role, you will join colleagues in the Employee Experience Team with overarching responsibility to provide project management expertise in a variety of disciplines including project planning and maintenance, supporting governance and assurance, risk management and dependency management.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the Head of PMO to ensure successful delivery of key milestones to the required quality and to the timescales agreed within the project plan.
• Collaborate effectively across teams and organisational boundaries to support team goals and priorities.
• Supporting the Employee Experience Steering Group with a programmatic approach
• Identify and monitor employee experience programme risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate.
• Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependencies.
• Support effective governance and decision making. Provide reporting and engage in mechanisms that hold you, as Project Manager, to account for delivery.
• Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations.
• Develop and maintain project plans using waterfall/agile tools and techniques. Identify and set appropriate project controls. Manage performance and report progress to sponsors.
• Support the change plan for the project and provide input into the overall Programme/Portfolio/Transformation Plan.
• Create and maintain the stakeholder engagement strategy, plan and build partnerships while having effective working relationships with DWP's key stakeholders.

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