Project Management Office - Team Leader - INTERNAL

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Kirklees
Growth & Regeneration
Homes & Neighbourhoods
37
1
Huddersfield and surrounding areas
Permanent
Grade 14

£48,474 - £50,512

This job is internally restricted. To apply for this job you must be an employee of the Council for the duration of the recruitment process – up to and including the start date. You must also be a substantive employee (or an employee with 12 months continuous service or more) of the Council or an Apprentice. Please note that if you work for an Academy you are not an employee of the Council.

Huddersfield’s town’s and valley’s weave together vibrant, young, dynamic communities with breath-taking Yorkshire landscape. The Kirklees area has built on its proud industrial heritage by being a place that encourages innovation and entrepreneurship.

Our vision for Kirklees is to be a district which combines a strong, sustainable economy with a great quality of life - leading to thriving communities, growing businesses, high prosperity and low inequality where people enjoy better health throughout their lives.

Major capital programmes and projects are underway across the Council and this work is underpinned by comprehensive governance structures, with teams working across Council’s Service Areas to deliver projects and programmes efficiently and effectively. The Council is now creating a dedicated Project Management Office function to help manage this process. There is a need to obtain strategic oversight for these extensive and exciting programmes and this role will play a vital role in achieving this. This team will help accelerate capital expenditure by ensuring projects and programmes are being run efficiently and that they have a good strategic fit with the council’s objectives.

This team and this role will be based in the Council’s Major Projects Service, but will work across multiple Council Service Areas (initially across the Growth & Regeneration and Environment & Climate Change Directorates) and will have the following responsibilities:

  • Key role in supporting the day to day governance of the Directorates and have the technical knowledge, behaviours and experience to capture and record robust decision-making and assist delivery of major projects for the Council.
  • Help accelerate delivery by ensuring that programmes/projects are managed effectively and consistently, including their scope, objectives/outcomes, risks/issues, cross programme dependencies and ensure that benefits and outcomes are effectively tracked and delivered.
  • Organise and manage a business case development approach for council capital projects (an internal and consistent assurance framework)
  • Support and provide leadership to colleagues who have day to day programme and project management duties to ensure compliance with the above approach
  • Plan, design, implement and monitor a programme management system, proactively monitoring progress, resolving issues and initiating corrective actions as appropriate to assist programme/projects are delivered on time and delivering the required outcomes and regularly report this to appropriate governance within the council.
  • Utilise standard corporate tools and templates to ensure that robust governance and quality assurance measures are in place to monitor the effectiveness of the programme/projects and the impact on service delivery.
  • Build highly effective working relationships with key stakeholders, across Council services and partners.
  • Provide intelligence and strategic guidance on programmes and projects to ensure services and the directorate continue to work effectively and deliver its shared outcomes.
  • Be responsible for the monitoring, reporting and regular presentation of the infrastructure planning and delivery mapping and phasing tool being developed.

We are looking for a team leader, project officers and project assistants to assist the Strategic Lead to set up and manage the delivery of the project management office function.

The ideal candidates will be highly motivated individuals, who are prepared to work flexibly, in a high profile and demanding environment, working to tight deadlines to achieve success for our programmes. Appointments will be made in line with the experience, skills, knowledge and qualifications as set out in the job profiles.

This is an excellent opportunity for individuals with highly developed interpersonal, organisational and negotiation skills along with good programme and project management experience to join a new team from the start. Business administration and knowledge of business systems will be an advantage.

The role involves strong partnership working and will need to build relations across the Council, hence, applicants should have good communication, negotiation and networking skills.

For more information about this post please contact Richard Hollinson, Head of Major Projects on 01484 221000.

Richard Hollinson is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information. 
We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email: jobs@kirklees.gov.uk or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.
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14 March 2021, 11:55 PM

Important Information

This vacancy is closed to applications.