Project Manager - Organisational Development

Skills, Experience, Qualifications

NPCC is currently based in close proximity to St James’ Park Underground Station, London and therefore occasional travel will be required to this premise and other Police locations across the UK.

We encourage applications from candidates living across the UK.

Band Band C

Job Title:

Project Manager

• Organisational Development & Change Staff:
  Band C
  -The starting salary is 48,995, which includes allowances totalling 3,009.The salary is broken down as 45,986 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale
• 54,863. Plus, a location allowance of 2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of 1,000.This role does not attract Shift Disturbance Allowance.

If you are currently in a shift-working role, SDA should cease upon appointment to this job.

Location:

Remote working nationally within UK.

Further details on flexible arrangements will be discussed at interview stage.

Contract – Fixed Term Contract until 31/03/2027 (with the potential for further extension subject to funding and performance).

THE NATIONAL POLICE CHIEFS’ COUNCIL (NPCC)
Policing is operating in a time of global change and uncertainty, the public and our staff need a service which is responsive, able to tackle future challenges and embrace opportunity.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) brings UK police leaders together to set direction in policing and drive progress for the public.

We achieve this through:

Coordination – by joining up the operational response to critical national policing issues to deliver policing today and shape the future.

Collaboration – by working in partnership as part of the whole policing system and beyond to improve public safety.

Communication – by sharing the collective expertise, views and action of UK police chiefs.

NPCC ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE TEAMThe Organisational Development and Change (ODC) team is an established function for the NPCC Strategic Hub.

It has responsibility for driving continuous improvement across the NPCC, delivering projects of work, and giving advice and guidance to ensure development activity is in line with NPCC and wider policing strategies.

We are seeking to recruit an experienced Project Manager, who will have responsibility for leading on multiple projects across the NPCC landscape.

Working at the centre of policing, on the biggest issues for the service, this is an exciting and challenging role where you can make a real difference.

You will be required to manage your own portfolio of work, and lead projects utilising your own initiative.

You will be highly solutions focused and a skilled problem solver who utilises your excellent project management skills to deliver projects from inception to delivery, with the support of the ODC team.

You will regularly manage complex, high profile, politically sensitive work where decisions and delivery have national implications with the potential to impact on the reputation of the whole police service.

You will need excellent interpersonal skills to establish and maintain credibility and effective working relationships with police chiefs, senior stakeholders and other NPCC staff. The successful candidate would need to have the following experiences and skills:

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate some of these and is willing to learn and achieve objectives set.

• Essential - 3 years project management experience or project management qualification.
• Management of a project through its life cycle – planning, governance, reporting, benefits, resourcing and finance.
• Project design including the development of relevant initiation documentation (PID, business case or similar)
• Project planning…