Technical Project Manager

Job Description :

Key responsibilities :

Project Leadership :

- Creates and leads the project team to deliver the agreed outputs/outcomes within scope, time, cost and quality constraints.

- Promotes the wider good in all actions, acting in a morally, legally and socially appropriate manner in dealings across project stakeholders and team.

Project Team Management :

- Manages the project team on a day to day basis, appropriate to context and project stage.

- Clearly defines, agrees and delegates team and key stakeholder roles and responsibilities; develops capability and fosters innovation; empowers and inspires others to deliver successful projects.

Project Business Case and Benefits Management :

- Where applicable, supports the project sponsor to prepare, gain approval of, refine and update business cases that justify projects in terms of benefits, costs and risks; tracking and reporting forecast and actuals against them.

- Works with project sponsor, programme managers and business benefit owners to support identification, tracking and delivery of benefits set out in business case.

- Ensures realisation of benefits for business through planning and designing project outputs meet business/programme requirements and desired outcomes.

Project Budget and Cost Management :

- Manages budgets for projects.

- Controls and reports on forecasts, changes, and actual costs against the budgets.

Governance :

- Establishes and maintains effective governance and decision making for the delivery of projects; defines clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities, that align with programme and/or organisational practice and requirements.

Project Plans and Controls :

- Designs, consolidates and documents the fundamental components of projects (scope, schedule, approach, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues, and quality requirements).

- Establishes, and implements where necessary, protocols to change the scope of projects and update of configuration documents as required.

Scheduling and Dependency Management :

- Develops, produces and maintains schedules for project activities that takes account of dependencies, resource requirements and constraints in order to enable the efficient realisation of project outputs and associated benefits.

- Maps project dependencies and identifies owners, builds dependency management into the project's governance cycle.

- Works with programme/project managers and business leads to ensure dependencies are actively managed, acts as an arbiter and enforcer and resolves issues between the various elements of the project.

Project Resource Management :

- Develops, implements and updates resource allocations plans (other than finance) needed for projects (incl. external required resources), taking account of availabilities and scheduling variances.

Stakeholder and Communications Management :

- Identifies and manages pertinent project stakeholder relationships (taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests), communications and need for senior level support.

- Ensures continual alignment with programme (if applicable), wider portfolio management and organisation communications.

- Manages internal and external relationships as appropriate.

- Proactively Identifies, addresses and seeks to resolve differences between individuals and/or interest groups.

Project Risks and Issues Management :

- Identifies and monitors project risks (threats and opportunities) and issues.

- Develops mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate.

- Identifies and works with related projects to manage interdependencies.