Role: Project Management Officer (PMO)
Location: Sheffield, UK
Employment Type: FTC - 6 Months (full-time, 2 days from office)
Primary Responsibilities
* Collaborate with Project Managers, key control owners and stakeholders to define clear business outcomes, requirements, and ensure these remain traceable throughout the delivery of the initiative.
* Attend various governance forums and provide programme insight to the ExCo and Steering Committee.
* Capture actions on behalf of ExCo members and work with relevant team stakeholders to close them in a timely manner.
* Develop and support business case submissions.
* Proactively monitor the programme’s progress and communicate to all stakeholders.
* Resolve issues and initiate corrective action as required.
* Ensure effective quality assurance.
* Articulate and capture risk and dependencies between programmes and function teams etc.
Standard Responsibilities
* The Project Manager will be responsible for delivering a range of medium sized projects across Build and Operate workstream to support key system integrations product optimisation and automated workflows for education controls key cybersecurity priorities.
* Produce full project plans.
* Define project requirements.
* Produce and deliver user test plans.
* Manage required governance processes to support system delivery and operational processes e.g. External Hosting Committees and Data Visa.
* Produce updated operational processes to support new features and tooling.
* Manage the project approach building stakeholder buy‑in around the project plan commitments and changes.
* Produce project status reports and ad hoc reporting requirements on the health of the projects.
* Proactively manage all project delivery risks, issues and dependencies.
* Work with Programme managers to ensure project activities are aligned to wider programme objectives.
* Be the main contact for respective projects across the wider programme.
* Track and manage risks throughout the lifecycle of the project.
* Deliver successful project outcomes i.e. ensuring it is on time and within budget.
* Contribute to and agree business transition plans including handover criteria ensuring all delivery expectations are met before handing final activities to BAU.
Knowledge, Qualifications, Experience
Technical Skill Set Required
* Strong experience in delivering cloud‑based solutions.
* Experience in technology delivery in a complex organisation.
* Experience in business requirements definition and testing.
* Delivery of business process documentation.
* Excellent planning and reporting skills.
Soft Skill Required
* Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment and ever‑changing priorities and having extremely flexible to manage workload.
* Able to support aggressive delivery timelines without compromising on quality.
* Quick learner.
* Work with different stakeholders – Vendors, Project Manager, ITSO, ITSO Delegates, Support teams – resolve all technical queries in a timely manner.
* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal in English.
* Facilitate escalations to senior management.
Skills
Mandatory Skills: Stakeholder Management, Project Financial Management, Risk/Crisis Management
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Information Technology
Industries
Staffing and Recruiting
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