Project Manager, Change Management, Project & Program Management

Calling Project Managers! Are you a skilled communicator with a natural ability to influence, motivate and lead others and ready for a new challenge? Then look no further!

We have an exciting opportunity for a professional, hands-on Project Manager to join us on a full-time, fixed term basis (6-12 months) to deliver some key systems and business process change projects, and to develop our programme management capability for ongoing technology and business process transformation.

This role can be based in any of our offices across Scotland (Elgin, Peterhead, Aberdeen, Dundee, Airdrie, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Irvine or Galashiels) or as part of our hybrid working model.

We have an ongoing project which we need you to lead:

• Our new HR and Payroll System is already underway. We ve selected our new system and plan to implement the HR module this year, followed by the Payroll and Expenses modules. We re looking for a hands-on Project Manager to take ownership of the implementation, ensuring the project stays on track and is successfully delivered through to completion.
• Our HR and payroll processes are complex, with data flowing across multiple systems and integrations. We re looking for someone who can quickly understand and improve end-to-end processes, confidently manage stakeholders across HR, Finance and IT, and solve problems as they arise.

This is a rewarding time to join Cornerstone as we deliver our new strategic plan,
Improving Lives Together
, built around the following organisational priorities:

• The Foundation – Digital innovation: empowering everything we do
• Pillar 1 – Voices of the people we support at the heart of all decisions
• Pillar 2 – People: leadership, workforce and culture
• Pillar 3 – Financial sustainability: building for the future
• The Roof – Quality: evidence based improvement

For a full list of key responsibilities and person specification, please see our role profile attached to this advert.

• Experienced in implementing HR and Payroll software and managing the business processes and wider change implications
• An experienced project manager, able to create and maintain cohesive project plans using a project management tool such as MS Project or similar to manage tasks, resources, schedules and create reports.
• A skilled communicator, able to assertively negotiate, and influence with diplomacy and tact to progress the project objectives.
• Able to motivate people with your management and leadership abilities, ensuring teams work collaboratively to meet deadlines.
• Knowledgeable about change management practices, and techniques for effective management of change.
• Excellent at planning and organisation, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Committed to professionalism and quality, with a practical, solution-focussed approach.

• A project management qualification such as Prince2 Practitioner, PMQ, PMP
• Knowledge and experience of the health and social care or third sector