Salary: Band 9, £42,861 – £49,716 (£21,431 – £24,858 pro rata)
Location: Ponteland Police Station
Hours/Contract: 3 x 18.5 hour per week, fixed term for 12 months
Role Overview
Join the Digital Policing Team as an Airwave Assistant Change Project Manager. You will assist the Change Project Manager to manage all aspects of the Integrated Communications Control System (ICCS) or Airwave project delivery across the full lifecycle, from business case and initiation through implementation to benefits realisation, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality tolerances, standards and reporting requirements.
Responsibilities
* Lead projects or workstreams in line with experience, following the Force’s programme management approach and supporting delivery through robust planning, risk, issue, and stakeholder management.
* Deputise for Change Project Managers as required, ensuring projects remain on track, resourcing issues are managed, and key risks or issues are escalated appropriately.
* Support the development and maintenance of project documentation to drive workforce engagement, manage change effectively, and deliver sustainable improvements.
* Develop relationships with vendors and third‑party suppliers as required, ensuring 3rd‑party products are optimised and embedded into business areas.
* Support process reviews and facilitate meetings and improvement workshops to evaluate services, processes, and the use of technology to improve service delivery.
Qualifications
* Experience working in project teams to deliver defined outcomes within a matrix management environment.
* Detailed knowledge and understanding of Airwave critical voice services and systems (ICCS, Airwave devices and accessories).
* Understanding of project planning and delivery, including monitoring and evaluation, with experience planning tasks and allocating resources to achieve key milestones within agreed time, cost, and quality tolerances.
* Ability to set out logical arguments clearly, adapting language, form and message to meet the needs of different people/audiences.
* Well‑developed planning, organisational and people‑management skills, with experience managing project resources, deputising for a Project Manager and working collaboratively to motivate teams and deliver project objectives.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience developing and managing project communications and engagement plans, building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and the confidence to challenge constructively and negotiate positive outcomes.
Terms of Appointment
* Fixed‑term secondment role subject to a six‑month probationary period.
* Probation period may restrict you from applying for other posts advertised internally or externally.
Disability and Equality
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum and are committed to being a Disability‑Confident Leader. We offer interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential job criteria and, where possible, provide adjustments such as extra test time or sign‑language interpretation to support applicants throughout the recruitment process.
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