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
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre-interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us. Futureheads is a B Corp accredited digital recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in recruiting permanent, contract and freelance digital and tech professionals in creative, data, design, digital marketing, engineering, product, project and programme management, UX and service design jobs.
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