IT Project Manager - #2157331

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh/Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit 2x IT Project Managers on a hybrid basis, on initial 12-month contracts (with potential extensions) on a rate of c.£400/day Outside of IR35 (based on experience).

The Role:

The primary purpose of this project management role is to lead, oversee and support critical inflight projects, ensuring successful delivery, with regards to our digital transformation portfolio

Responsibilities:

• Putting in place professional, robust and effective project management mechanisms and documentation to control, manage and deliver assigned IT and digital projects successfully. This includes supporting the team with effectively estimating timelines and adhering to plans.
• Facilitate and support sprint planning meetings, ensuring BA’s, Testers, Developers and Transformation understand the requirements, how they are being built/tested and the impact to end users.
• Facilitate and direct project team members throughout the project life cycle, and engage with project and technical staff, stakeholders and suppliers to design, control and deliver the desired project outcomes.
• Ensure detailed tracking of project plans, providing status reports and other required communications to highlight progress against agreed baseline plans and to ensure project delivery transparency and assured progression through project lifecycles.

Essential Experience:

• You will be qualified in project management and have experience in all aspects of the project lifecycle.
• You will be experienced and comfortable in operating in both an agile and a waterfall environment. You will be experienced in running sprint planning sessions and directing the team through the sprints to ensure delivery.
• You will have experience delivering complex and wide-ranging IT business projects across digital programme portfolio.
• You are an experienced communicator, with a strong ability in bringing people together to achieved joint outcomes.
• You will have experience of engaging authoritatively and effectively with IT and business colleagues as well as and external partners to devise and plan the required solutions, tasks and activities.
• You will have experience of successfully delivery of custom-built applications, working through the lifecycle to deliver value to business stakeholders.