Project Manager – Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service

Are you passionate about delivering meaningful change? We’re looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead and deliver major transformation projects that make a real impact. Working with senior stakeholders, project teams and partners, you’ll drive projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and achieve their intended benefits.

• Leading the successful delivery of complex projects using recognised project management methodologies and corporate standards.
• Managing project plans, risks, resources, budgets and performance to ensure key milestones are achieved.
• Working closely with Project Sponsors and Boards to deliver agreed outcomes, benefits and strategic objectives.
• Providing leadership, support and direction to project teams, ensuring the right skills and expertise are in place.
• Monitoring and reporting project progress, finances and governance requirements to stakeholders.
• Building strong relationships and maintaining effective communication with internal and external partners.
• Supporting the development of project management capability across the organisation through coaching, guidance and knowledge sharing.
• This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering projects that drive innovation, improve services and create lasting organisational impact.

You’ll be a proactive and delivery-focused Project Manager who thrives on:

• Leading transformation projects that combine technology, process, and people change
• Working in complex environments with multiple stakeholders
• Turning ambiguity into clear, structured delivery plans
• Creating lasting impact and deliver continuous improvement.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and experiences, but the ideal person will have:

• Understanding of project management techniques and project governance
• Demonstratable understanding of project management documentation, including options appraisal, risk and issue management and stakeholder and communication management.
• Understanding of Change management tools and techniques.
• Ability to lead, manage, motivate and develop others in a project management team environment and in the wider service.
• Ability to supervise and co-ordinate projects, work streams, working groups, task and finish groups and individuals
• Ability to delegate work to others, setting clear performance expectations and measuring of outputs/outcomes
• Ability to communicate complex information both orally and in writing in a clear, concise and articulate way to a wide range of audiences, with due regard for confidentiality at all times
• Ability to engage, interact and communicate effectively with a wide range of Partner agencies and third party suppliers, including delivery of presentations up to and including Chief Executive level.
• Proven experience of scoping and planning projects.

Contract type:
Full Time