Senior Digital Project Manager

at  Department for Work and Pensions

JOB SUMMARY

Are you ready to lead impactful digital projects that drive significant business change?
Do you excel at using diverse skills and methodologies to manage cross-functional teams?
If this sounds like you, this may be the perfect opportunity for you!
We’re looking for driven and passionate Senior Digital Project Managers who can lead the delivery of multiple digital projects which have significant business impact.
Our Digital Project Managers use a range of skills and methodologies, managing multi-functional delivery teams to deliver change, maintain our core applications and deliver new services that support the lives of millions of people.
We have many exciting opportunities for you to join us at DWP Digital, you will join a flourishing, supportive delivery community delivering some of the largest digital transformations in Europe.
The Specialist Devices Team operate as part of Digital Workspaces and have responsibility for macOS and the physical and virtual environments/solutions for our 3,000 Engineering users, and 8,500 customer computers.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Digital Project Manager, you will lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale complex digital changes.
Ensuring project controls are in place, managing plans, risks, issues, and dependencies to effective resolution.
While managing appropriate governance and reporting to Digital Directors, communicating, and resolving complex issues while influencing board-level decisions.
You’ll navigate a varied stakeholder environment, setting the pace for delivery and working with internal teams and external suppliers to ensure successful outcomes.
Manage team dynamics, coaching teams to improve flow, quality, and ownership, addressing conflicts, and fostering a positive team culture.
Take responsibility for your own learning and development in project management practices, digital frameworks, and technologies in an agile environment, while also coaching and mentoring your team and the wider delivery community to establish standards for processes and tools.

We need a Digital Project Manager to lead the team and contribute to the following portfolio:

• Improvements to the Engineering Platform supporting 3,000 users developing solutions for DWP.
• Solutions to separate access between production and non-production environments for specific users.
• Assessment and delivery of a new solution for the 8,500 Customer Computers, based nationwide in all Jobcentres.

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)

Digital
Information Technology
Planning
Project Delivery