Senior Digital Project Manager - Contract - Inside IR35 - 9 month - Newcastle We’re on the lookout for a Senior Digital Project Manager to join a high-profile, public sector programme focused on reducing legacy technology risk across a large and complex IT estate. This is a contract role that offers the chance to operate at programme level, supporting core planning, oversight, reporting, and governance across 50 tech debt reduction projects. This isn’t your typical delivery role. You won’t be managing individual digital projects. Instead, you’ll play a key part in coordinating and enabling enterprise-wide delivery, working alongside the Programme Lead to build structure, remove blockers, and ensure teams have what they need to deliver confidently. You’ll work in a hybrid delivery environment that’s mostly waterfall (given the need for full service readiness), but enhanced with agile ways of working like stand-ups, retros, and iterative planning. What you’ll be doing: Supporting the core team to deliver programme-level planning, tracking, and reporting Facilitating coordination across delivery teams, helping to manage interdependencies and priorities Contributing to stakeholder governance, milestone planning, content decks, and delivery dashboards Enhancing team operations using agile principles (capacity planning, retrospectives, stand-ups, etc.) Supporting internal initiatives such as recruitment mapping, commercial oversight, and contract management Building strong relationships with internal and external delivery partners to align effort and outcomes Ensuring timely and accurate delivery reporting across the programme, supporting both executive and working-level updates You’ll bring: Strong experience in digital project delivery roles, ideally at both project and programme levels Confidence managing planning and delivery across multiple interdependent projects Experience working in hybrid environments, comfortable with waterfall delivery, but fluent in agile techniques Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, able to work across teams and functions Familiarity with complex tech estates and legacy systems is a plus A pragmatic, proactive mindset – someone who can create structure where it’s needed and keep momentum moving If this sounds of interest and want more information, please let me know.