Job advert
Job Title Senior Project Manager DDat
Grade I Starting Salary £55,
Contract Type Permanent
Staffordshire Police is continually striving to deliver the best possible service for the county’s residents, businesses and visitors. It is a fast-paced organisation, adaptive to modern policing needs and open to continual improvement.
Everyone who works for the force has an important role to play in shaping the future of Staffordshire Police. The force seeks people who will champion new ways of working, be collaborative and agile and represent in a fair and ethical manner those that Staffordshire Police serves.
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About the Opportunity
The newly formed Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Team are responsible for transforming and supporting all the force's digital technology needs.
Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) are the forefront of technological change across our IT estate, so we need motivated and enthusiastic engineer who can work well as part of a team or as an individual and is keen to join a team focused on the future and be part of our journey in delivering critical IT systems to front line policing and staff members.
If you’ve got an IT background that involves strong interpersonal skills and a keen attention to detail while delivering excellent customer service, we’re looking for an Senior IT Project Manager to join our restructured in-house IT team within Staffordshire Police.
The DDaT Project Manager role holds responsibility for delivering projects to a professional standard, ensuring all resource activities are correctly managed, coordinated, governed and successfully delivered. Regular reporting on project status and progress is an essential expectation of the role, alongside risk management and benefits tracking.
The post holder must hold a good understanding of project management best practices and be familiar with different approaches, as well as capable of overseeing multiple smaller changes and tasks are delivered concurrently. All progress against project deliverables needs to be well documented and understood throughout the department.
Effective stakeholder communication is essential, as is a strong technical knowledge for resolving and expediting project actions across the DDaT Department.
This role will provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues on Project Management and delivery approaches, deliver large complex projects or collection of unrelated projects in parallel.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience:
1. Demonstrable experience delivering multiple complex IT projects
2. A Project Manager practitioner qualification such as APM-PMQ or PMI-PMP
3. A degree or equivalent experience
Further details of the key tasks, responsibilities can be found within the role profile.
Please upload your CV and cover letter
Closing Date: Monday 15th December - 12 Midday.
In addition to your salary, you will have access to a range of benefits including:
4. Pension Scheme - Employers Pension contribution 21.5% Staffordshire Pension Fund - Staffordshire Pension Fund - Home (staffspf.org.uk)
5. Generous holiday entitlement, plus Bank Holidays.
6. Flexible / Agile Working
7. Sick pay scheme
8. Fostering friendly policy
9. Family friendly policies – maternity, paternity, parental leave, adoption, disability leave and carers leave
10. Access to health and wellbeing support
11. Eye care vouchers
12. On site Gyms
13. Staff associations
14. Reward and Recognition
15. Blue light Card
16. Flexible working options
17. Training and development opportunities
18. Car lease scheme
19. Cycle to work scheme
20. Free Parking at selected sites
21. Onsite catering facilities
22. Access to Staff Networks
23. Union support
24. Financial products and services