Project Delivery Manager (Synergy Programme)

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

Do you want to be part of an energetic, innovative team and bring your skills to one of the biggest changes to the administration of the Civil Service in decades?
We’re looking for people who are flexible, intuitive and are comfortable taking high levels of volume, speed and complexity in their stride.
A number of exciting new roles have come up in the Synergy Programme, a cross-departmental group formed in response to the Government Strategy for Shared Services which sets out departmental ‘clusters’ to drive efficiencies, increase buying power and improve the quality of shared services in government.
The Synergy Programme is the largest of five departmental clusters, comprising the Ministry of Justice, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Home Office. The Department of Work and Pensions hosts the Synergy Programme. Your work will impact the procurement arrangements for Enterprise Resource Platform (ERP) and Business Process Services for the next 15 years, impacting over 50% of all Civil Servants – that’s 230,000 people across the four departments and arm’s length bodies.
Synergy will support the delivery of critical Government services by enabling faster, more efficient and intuitive HR, Finance and procurement transactions, based on user needs. It will also deliver better data reporting to underpin decision making.
If you’re someone who can use your experience to streamline procurement to drive out error, waste and duplication we want to hear from you. Most importantly, we’re looking for applications from people who can demonstrate a passion for our core ambition: delivering a once in a generation, transformed service that Civil Servants will use as a result of the Synergy Programme.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Successful candidates may be expected to be involved in the following:

• Lead, monitor and drive the delivery of individual complex programmes/projects with competing priorities with multiple teams, partners and stakeholders to prepare, plan and deliver the changes agreed at pace.
• Use appropriate Project Methodologies to build and design cohesive project plans, resource modelling and progress reporting whilst working in ambiguity, to identify, monitor project risks and issues, applying mitigation, controls and escalation as appropriate; enabling alignment with the wider programme through the Programme Management Office.
• Help manage the demands of competing workstreams, working through others to deliver key milestones and manage interdependencies to ensure projects, activities and the governance needs of the programme remain on track.
• Identify and manage stakeholder relationships managing multiple internal partners and HR colleagues and external relationships as appropriate to design how we will work together in the future and ensure an effective transition to those new ways of working.
• Promote effective individual and team performance by contributing to the Synergy programme by sharing knowledge, effective problem solving and by supporting others through coaching and supporting individuals’ personal development.

Please ensure you read the candidate pack for further details on Synergy and working in DWP.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Business Management and Improvement
Planning
Project Delivery