Associate Project Manager

at  Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Delivery practices Provide a clear, open and transparent framework in which teams can deliver. Show an awareness of delivery tools and methodologies (example: Agile, Waterfall, etc) and start to use them intelligently. Visualise and make visible the work of the team through a variety of tools and methods (highlight reports, stakeholder engagement, project boards, etc). Commercial management Act as a point of contact for contracted suppliers.
Understand appropriate internal contacts and processes within the department. Understand how and when 3rd parties should be bought into projects. Communicating between the technical and non-technical Communicate effectively between technical and non-technical stakeholders. Support and host discussions between a multidisciplinary team, with potentially difficult dynamics.
Be an advocate for the team externally and can manage differing perspectives. Continuous improvement You know how to analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise processes, and contribute to the implementation of proposed solutions either in context of assigned projects, or delivery processes within your team. Governance Ensure we apply good governance practices to project delivery in-line with our governance framework. Ensure project delivery considers and incorporates good governance around commercial, information security, and clinical safety principles in the lifecycle.
Financial management Understand the financial impact of the work you do and how cost and budgets are created. Manage project finances for your assigned project portfolio, know how and when to escalate issues. Lifecycle perspective Understand how the needs of the team and the product vary at different stages of the delivery lifecycle. Maintaining delivery momentum Actively address internal risks and issues and know when to escalate them.
Set the team cadence and tempo, ensuring it is sustainable. Ensure the team is resourced adequately to achieve its required outputs and objectives and start to negotiate / influence resourcing requirements with specialist team managers. Track, manage, escalate and communicate dependencies. Actively remove, or minimise risks, issues, or dependencies where possible.
Understand how the risks, issues or dependencies impact the work of the team. Making a process work Guide teams to focus on the output rather than the process. Help the team find a process that works for them. Support teams establish a process.
Ownership and initiative You can own a project issue until a new owner has been found, or the issue has been mitigated or resolved. Planning Understand the importance of planning and forecasting. Show an awareness of different ways to develop a plan. Create, update, manage and monitor a range of delivery artefacts relating to your projects, examples (but not limited to): Project Initiation Document (PID) and Business Case Project Plan Project Workbook including Risk, Actions, Issues and Dependencies Project Highlight Reports Project Communications Plans / Artefacts Work Packages Reporting Responsible for ensuring that the project management platform is kept up-to-date with all project activities across your portfolio of projects.
Produce relevant reports in a standard format and agreed timeframe. Add a commentary that provides an interpretation of the data set. User focus Explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. Champion user research to focus on all users.
Prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. Offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use. Community of practice Develop and maintain a network of professionals to enable continuous learning and a community which can share, learn, and keep up to date Other Duties: Occasional work may be required outside of core business hours to support major projects / programmes All other reasonable request

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