Housing Management System - Project Manager

Housing Management System - Project Manager

18 Month Contract

Hybrid Working

£29 per hour

We are supporting a local council to recruit a Housing Management System - Project Manager on an 18 month Contract

Responsibilities:

Within this role you will own the Housing Management System replacement project from inception, through procurement to delivery into live ensuring all Council rules are adhered to including change control, procurement and budget control.

• To be responsible for the successful delivery of the project on time, budget and to quality standards. To monitor, report and review the management of the project.
• To lead a medium sized procurement activity to ensure the correct product is purchased to meet the needs of the housing service.
• To maintain a good working knowledge of housing services as applying to the project to ensure all relevant design questions are directly quickly
• To carry out post implementation reviews, identifying further opportunities for benefits realisation.
• Prepare detailed plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and track activities, costs and resource usage against project schedules
• Providing regular reports to appropriate stakeholders and intervening to handle deviations from plan.
• To liaise with service owners and senior management team to ensure that all elements of the project are understood and delivered
• To coordinate allocated resources (including Business Analysts and technical staff plus other services staff) to ensure clarity of expectations and tasks that need to be carried out.
• To design and implement a rigorous training programme in conjunction with service subject matter experts and external contractors.
• To maintain relationships with external contractors
• To work with ICT Management to understand the best practice for future operating procedures and ensure that this is documented in project plans.
• To drive continuous improvement with service leads t
• Produce business cases for consideration by ICT related boards obtaining information from within the Council and external suppliers.
• Identify, record and manage risks associated with the work,
• You must ensure that you comply at all times with the General Data Protection Act, relating to personal information held by the Council.
• Coordinate and manage the project team through various stages of the project life cycle: discovery, specification creation, development, UAT and release.

Your Knowledge

• Proven experience in Procurement Management in public sector projects
• Knowledge of housing Management services
• Proven track record in large scale projects

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