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REQ00829

As a Senior Project Manager within Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) Change and Digital Innovation (CDi) team, you will work as part of the Change Lab structure managed within the Project Management Pool. Promoting best practice in project management you will ensure that SCTS policy and procedures maintain quality assurance levels of a high standard.
As a Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for undertaking a portfolio of change programmes to modernise the delivery of its services, underpinned by technology. The Change Labs are looking for Senior Project Manager/Delivery Managers to join the team to lead on planning, supporting the team to achieve a high level of performance and quality, and deliver a portfolio of agile projects that can demonstrably deliver high business value to users and stakeholders. The successful candidate will work closely with the delivery teams of project managers.
You will work closely with senior stakeholders to deliver areas of improvement, and support the business in achieving their requirements, supporting their strategic vision and delivering the improvements that allow senior stakeholders to realise tangible benefits.

As a senior project manager your responsibilities will include:

• Performing project planning activities for strategic projects or portfolio of projects
• Securing the correct resources and finances across multiple projects
• Managing the delivery resources, including project managers and budget
• Management of scope
• Schedule management and high-level change control (scope management)
• Risk, Issue, Assumption and Dependency management
• Supplier management
• Negotiating and unblocking obstacles to delivery
• Compliance with in-house LOAD delivery methodology
• Project reporting
• Target delivery

You will plan and lead projects as part of a cross-functional agile team, actively contributing to sprint planning and retrospectives. You will manage day-to-day stakeholder relationships both internally and externally in collaboration with the Product Owner and Head of Lab. This will involve communication with internal teams and, at times, external service users. You will develop a deep understanding of your area of work and be responsible for delivering high-quality outcomes using the SCTS Change Framework LOAD/LOAD Lite.
Applications will be accepted until 11:59pm on the closing date stated on the advert, 6th May 2025
You will be notified if you have been selected to progress to the Interview stage by 12th May 2025
Interviews will be held week commencing 19th May 202

• Performing project planning activities for strategic projects or portfolio of projects
• Securing the correct resources and finances across multiple projects
• Managing the delivery resources, including project managers and budget
• Management of scope
• Schedule management and high-level change control (scope management)
• Risk, Issue, Assumption and Dependency management
• Supplier management
• Negotiating and unblocking obstacles to delivery
• Compliance with in-house LOAD delivery methodology
• Project reporting
• Target deliver