Job Description
The Project Manager is accountable to the Senior Project Manager and has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis, within the constraints/tolerances laid down by others.
A Project Manager would typically be responsible for the management of small-scale projects where limited complexity, requires no guidance or support in its application and with a project budget of >£500k
The Project Manager’s prime responsibility is to ensure that the project produces the required products within the specified tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, benefits and risk. The Project Manager is also responsible for the project producing a result capable of achieving the benefits defined in the business case
Job title:
Project Manager
Job Description:
The Project Manager is responsible for managing the day to day activities Capita’s projects through to delivery of the new capabilities, realisation of benefits and project closure.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Prepare the following baseline management products, in conjunction with any project assurance roles, and agree them with the Lead or Senior Project Manager:
- Project brief, including the project product description
- Project schedule:
- Benefits management approach, PID, and its components, stage/exception plans and their product descriptions and work packages.
- Prepare the following reports:
- Highlight reports, issue reports, end stage reports, exception reports
- End project report.
- Maintain the following records:
- Project schedule, dependency log, assumption log, issue register, risk register, daily log lessons log.
- Tailor the method to suit the project’s situation, documenting this, as appropriate, in the PID.
- Liaise with portfolio, programme management or the customer to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated by related projects.
- Liaise with any external suppliers or account managers.
- Lead and motivate the project management team.
- Establish behavioral expectations of team members.
- Manage the information flows between the directing and delivering levels of the project.
- Manage the production of the required products, taking responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiating corrective action where necessary.
- Establish and manage the project’s procedures: risk management, issue management, change control and communication.
- Establish and manage the project controls: monitoring and reporting.
- Authorize work packages.
- Advise the project board of any deviations from the plan.
- Unless appointed to another person(s), perform the team manager role
- Unless appointed to another person (or portfolio, programme management or customer function), perform the project support role
- Implement the change control approach.
- Ensure project personnel comply with the change control approach.
- Schedule audits to check that the physical products are consistent with the configuration item records and initiate any necessary corrective action.
Location:
Milton Keynes
,
United Kingdom
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent