Project Manager – Pensions Dashboard Implementation
£66,000 per annum
Bedford
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Hybrid Working
Why This Role Matters
Join the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as a Project Manager – Pensions Dashboard Implementation. This role offers you the chance to make a significant impact by driving the successful implementation of a high‑profile, complex project. You will play a key role in delivering high‑priority change initiatives and in supporting the integration of the Pensions Dashboards Service into MaPS business‑as‑usual operations. As part of the Technology and Change team, you will work across a broad range of business change activities, ensuring that implementation is effective, sustainable and aligned with strategic goals.
Role Overview
The Project Manager will report directly to the Senior Programme Manager and will be responsible for the following:
What You’ll Be Doing
* Project Management – Day‑to‑day management and leadership of the project and the project team, providing effective leadership and management controls.
* Delivery – Create and lead the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
* Budget – Develop the budget and track delivery within budget.
* Resources – Identify skill requirements, deploy and develop resources, and manage a medium‑sized team.
* Benefits Realisation – Deliver the agreed Business Case benefits and outcomes.
* Stakeholder Management – Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and secure senior level support.
* Risks & Issues – Identify, monitor and mitigate project risks and issues, and manage interdependencies with related projects.
* Governance – Support effective governance and decision‑making, provide reporting and engage in mechanisms that hold the Project Manager accountable for delivery.
* Assurance – Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations.
* Change Management – Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables.
* Guidance & Support – Provide support, guidance and coaching for the project team, promoting effective individual and team performance.
* Support Change Function centrally (where required) – Support central change activities and the development of new change processes.
* Business Case – Support the development of Business Cases with input from specialists as necessary.
What You’ll Bring
Essential
* Qualified PPM Professional: Project/Programme management qualification (PRINCE2, MSP, etc).
* Experience of successfully managing programmes or projects, or having been in a work‑stream lead role within a programme or project.
* Experience of working effectively with a wide range of stakeholders across government departments, directorate/business group lines.
* Experience of securing resources and directing planning, scheduling, resourcing and estimation for complex and large‑scale programmes.
* Experience of overseeing risk and issue management.
* Experience of leading day‑to‑day management and leadership of the project and its team.
* Ability to provide effective leadership and management controls.
* Experience of monitoring longer‑term delivery of benefits against business case and ensuring a benefit realisation strategy is in place.
* Ability to understand policy and align change delivery, cascading vision and driving delivery objectives through your team.
Desirable
* Experience supporting, as a Project Manager, the build or implementation of a B2B and/or B2C service, including activities required to prepare a service for live operation.
* Experience contributing to industry mobilisation or service readiness activity for large‑scale, multi‑party programmes.
* Experience working within or alongside complex delivery ecosystems, including suppliers, partners, regulators, or industry bodies.
* Experience supporting readiness, assurance, or transition‑to‑live activity ahead of go‑live or handover into business‑as‑usual operations.
* Experience operating in a regulated, policy‑led, or public‑facing service environment, where delivery must align with external standards or statutory expectations.
* Experience of working in, or closely with, an Arm’s Length Body or central government organisation.
Benefits
* 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
* Pension (2:1 matched contribution up to 10%)
* Season ticket loan
* Cycle to work scheme (up to £3,000)
* Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
* Life assurance
* EAP Assist & Life
* Enhanced family and sick pay
* 2 paid volunteering days
* Recognition scheme
* Retail discounts portal
Flexible Working
This Bedford‑based role offers genuine flexibility so you can balance work, family and personal commitments. Work arrangements can be tailored to support a healthy work–life balance.
Career Development
We support internal growth and progression, following fair and open Civil Service recruitment practices.
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