Senior Project Planner - London, United Kingdom - Public Sector Resourcing
Description
Senior Project Planner
Contract Term: 6 Months
Contracting Authority:
DWP
Location:
Hybrid working (Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham or London)
As a Senior Project Panner your main responsibilities would be:
- Owning the overall Digital Project Plan and leading the collaborative planning across stakeholders, establishing priorities, conflicts and issues, helping everyone to navigate a complex environment.
- Working with Change PMO to reflect Digital's plans in the Programme's High-Level Plan.
- Working with Strand Leads to keep the team's MS Project Plan up to date with progress, new activities, and changes.
- Reporting on the plan's overall progress and critical path.
- Being an integral part of the FAS IT Central team and PMO.
- Managing planning risks, issues and dependencies (external and internal) for Digital Project Plan and escalating them, where necessary, to the Digital PMO and SCS.
- Leading and supporting some of the transition activities.
- Providing plan updates to DWP teams and 3rd suppliers and incorporating appropriate changes and feedback.
- Playing an active role in the FAS IT delivery community, improving ways of working
You'll have relevant experience in:
- Proficient and skilled using Microsoft Project
- Experience of project management and working with other teams and suppliers to build complex Project plans.
- Tracking the delivery of largescale digital products and services within a managed IT environment.
- Experience of DWP Governance processes.
- Translating information from stakeholders to ensure we understand objectives.
- Experience of working in a large government department
- Good stakeholder management experience in a complex matrix structure, fostering strong relationships with 3rd party suppliers and Digital teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to share information, resources and support.
- Use critical thinking to support decisionmaking and to challenge decisions from others to ensure the deliverability of the plan.
- Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas._
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