Senior Digital Project Manager

This senior post sits in the Infrastructure team at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder runs technical projects and programmes for internal teams and for customers, and holds budget and financial assurance across a portfolio of projects. The role combines leading cross-functional teams with managing risk, change and project budgets, and offers home or remote working alongside flexible working.

Fit depends on significant project management experience and a degree-level or equivalent IT project management background.

• Run technical projects and programmes for internal teams and customers
• Provide budget and financial assurance for the project portfolio, ensuring value for money
• Manage and monitor individual project budgets, costs, expenditure and benefits
• Manage and elevate risks, issues and changes to project delivery
• Lead and motivate cross-functional teams and interact with all levels
• Assign and monitor the work of technical personnel to keep projects on time, within budget and aligned to business objectives
• Evaluate complex situations using multiple sources of information to validate and interpret
• Carry out analysis, planning, requirements documents, functional models, procedures and architectures
• Create a change management method, including documentation, communication plans and process training
• Engage customers and project team members in varied formats so progress is understood at each stage

• Project management qualification or equivalent experience
• Degree-level education or equivalent, with a postgraduate qualification or experience in an IT project management-related subject

• Significant project management experience, with evidence of delivering complex large projects
• Experience of line management and leading project teams
• Experience of leading business realisation with a clear focus on patient experience and outcomes
• Robust risk management experience
• Experience of succession planning and of assessing digital maturity within an organisation

• Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships with staff from a variety of backgrounds
• Ability to work to regular, tight deadlines
• Ability to forward plan
• Ability to communicate in both technical and non-technical language

• Significant experience of managing high-profile contentious projects within an Acute Trust
• Experience of working within a PMO and following PMO processes
• Excellent Microsoft Project and Visio skills
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

• Flexible working options
• Home or remote working
• Healthy work-life balance under the NHS People Promise
• Reasonable adjustments where possible
• Development opportunities through the Learning & OD Team, including communication, wellbeing, team development and cultural competency