Senior Project Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide project management expertise and advice within the directorate/organisation

Have direct responsibility for a number of projects, for the full lifecycle from initiation to project closure, taking a lead role on high priority/critical projects.

Ensure that each project is supported by a robust governance structure.

Monitor the progress of the project against the original business case and project initiation document, ensuring where necessary the project is able to adapt to changing requirements and that plans are adjusted accordingly so that the deliverables are on time, to specified quality and within budget.

To analyse and evaluate many highly complex and diverse conflicting issues associated with the completion of a project, which requires the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options and decide how resources are to be used.Including within this is the management of key interdependencies with other projects.

Ensure regular reports are provided to appropriate stakeholders as defined within the programme governance.

To identify and manage risks and issues associated with the project(s),including the development and implementation of contingency plans.

Ensure all system implementation plans are synchronised with training and infrastructure commitments and include post implementation review plans.

Ensure that appropriate business re-engineering activities take place, where appropriate, to support the successful delivery of the key outputs of the project.

To make routine presentations, covering complex issues to groups of staff on topics associated with programmes/projects and to demonstrate systems to users when necessary.

Represent other departmental managers at meetings, events, seminars, or progressing tasks where this is appropriate.

The postholder will be required to contribute to the development andimplementation of Key Performance Indicators and Critical Success Factors within the Directorate.

The postholder will be required to monitor and manage delivery against these targets and produce regular management update reports detailing performance levels and provide supporting information to explain improvements or degradation in service and action taken to resolve situations and to achieve progress.

The postholder will liaise with others to ensure they are briefed and up to date on any performance issues.

The post holder will work to achieve agreed directorate objectives and is given freedom to do this in own way working within broad professional policies.

Provide full support for internal and external audits of their project(s) and act on recommendations as appropriate.

Ensure that Post Implementation Reviews and Lessons Learned activities are initiated on completion of projects and are acted on to inform all future work.

Dedicate the required concentration required to collate, analyse, check and report on complex information, while coping with ongoing project issues and interruptions.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters Degree or equivalent
• Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP Foundation) or ability to demonstrate substantial experience and success in delivering projects

Desirable

• ITIL Foundation qualification

Experience

Essential

• Specialist experience of managing a series of complex, large inter-related projects or substantial clinical experience for those projects requiring clinical expertise
• Experience of managing a project team
• Substantial experience of using specialist Microsoft Office applications
• Working with colleagues at all levels including clinicians
• Working on unfamiliar topics requiring rapid assimilation of new technical knowledge
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Experience off affecting change in an organisation with no direct line management responsibility
• Analyses of non routine data, interpretation and resolution

Desirable

• Experience of working in a NHS environment
• A good understanding of the application of information and IT systems to support patient care

Knowledge

Essential

• Specialist knowledge and indepth Substantial experience of working in a project environment

Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Experience of dealing with and communicating highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information to large groups of Staff or Public
• Negotiation, motivation and influencing skills
• Ability to present project management techniques and tools
• Ability to discuss project management technical details with non technical users.
• Ability to delivery presentations to a large audience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kilby House, Liverpool Innovation Park.

Edge Lane

Liverpool

L7 9NJ

Employer's website

https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)