Junior Project Manager
Leeds - Partial Remote Working
Job Number
43561
Posted
11th Nov 2021 : 7:42 pm
Job Status
Live
Job Type
Temporary
Duration
6 Months
Pay Type
Inside IR35
Pay Rate
£30.31
Payment Method
Hourly
Contact
Surita Dadral
Contact details
0203 356 4949, admin@121.uk.com
Job Description
The public sector client is looking to recruit a Junior Project Manager for a 6 month temporary contract based in Leeds. The client has advised that you will be required to work in the office a few days a week and the remaining days can be worked remotely.
Essential Skills & Experience
Skills and Experience:
• Applying project management practices, tools and techniques and using effective quality and risk & issue management strategies.
• Able to use adaptive delivery techniques to manage and deliver waterfall and agile delivery types of projects
• Experience of and competent of successfully planning, managing, delivering, and closing small/medium projects in accordance with an organisation’s project management framework
• Applies project management practices, tools and techniques and using effective quality and risk & issue management strategies.
• Gains and maintains the trust, confidence, commitment, and collaboration of others to ensure the continued momentum of the project or programme.
• Is an advocate for the project or programme and understands its objectives, values and vision.
• Proven ability and experience of working to a quality management system/strategy or method, ensuring processes and procedures are robust and relevant to improve the reliability of achieving the desired outcome of the project/work area.
• Competent at managing project reviews, agreeing and managing outputs, and taking corrective action
• Able to use adaptive delivery techniques to manage and deliver waterfall and agile delivery types of projects
• Experience of and competent of successfully planning, managing, delivering, and closing small/medium projects in accordance with an organisation’s project management framework
• Applies project management practices, tools and techniques and using effective quality and risk & issue management strategies.
• Gains and maintains the trust, confidence, commitment, and collaboration of others to ensure the continued momentum of the project or programme.
• Is an advocate for the project or programme and understands its objectives, values and vision.
• Proven ability and experience of working to a quality management system/strategy or method, ensuring processes and procedures are robust and relevant to improve the reliability of achieving the desired outcome of the project/work area.
• Competent at managing project reviews, agreeing and managing outputs, and taking corrective action
Key Tasks & Deliverables
About you:
• The Junior Project Manager is responsible for managing the delivery of one or more small/medium projects to time, cost and quality criteria, which meet internal and external customers’ requirements using adaptive delivery techniques.
• The post holder is responsible for defining, documenting, and safely executing projects or several smaller initiatives, actively participating across the project lifecycle to ensure deliverables are accomplished as specified.
• The post holder participates in assurance and approvals processes to support the effective delivery of projects.
• The post holder is responsible for defining, documenting, and safely executing projects or several smaller initiatives, actively participating across the project lifecycle to ensure deliverables are accomplished as specified.
• The post holder participates in assurance and approvals processes to support the effective delivery of projects.
Qualifications, Training & Certificates
Qualifications:
• Recognised project management qualification at foundation level; eg, PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent experience.
• Qualification or equivalent experience demonstrating proficiency of MS Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel & Outlook).
• Specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools & techniques. and effective risk and issue management.
• Specialist knowledge of portfolio, programme and project management particularly relating to governance and controls, reporting, process improvement and quality.
• Qualification or equivalent experience demonstrating proficiency of MS Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel & Outlook).
• Specialist knowledge of project management practices, tools & techniques. and effective risk and issue management.
• Specialist knowledge of portfolio, programme and project management particularly relating to governance and controls, reporting, process improvement and quality.
The successful candidate will have a valid DBS or be willing to apply for one on CV submission or when a job offer has been made and accepted. This assignment sits inside IR35.
About the Rates of Pay: Please note: The higher pay rate advertised in our job advert/s will always be the highest Ltd or Umbrella Company pay rate that the client is willing to pay up to and the lower pay rate advertised in our job advert/s will always be the highest PAYE pay rate, that the client is willing to pay up to, unless otherwise specified. If the PAYE rate is not indicated in the job advert then please contact us for confirmation of the PAYE daily pay rate.
Clearance
DBS - Disclosure and Barring Service