Project Delivery Lead

Contract Term: 3 Months

Contracting Authority: Department for Work and Pensions

Location: London, Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Blackpool, Glasgow, and Birmingham - Hybrid working

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK's biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity

As a Project Delivery Lead your main responsibilities will be:

• Managing and coordinating the successful delivery of the TCR Resource Augmentation workstreams.
• Developing, monitoring and managing delivery risks, issues and interdependencies including mitigating strategies, escalating these as appropriate.
• Managing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver the outcomes of the project, collaborating with colleagues from different professions, including Commercial, Digital, Policy and Service Delivery, to deliver the project outcomes at the expected pace.
• Using good project delivery practices, building strong professional networks, both internally and externally. Providing direction and guidance to support others adopt good project management practices.
• Establishing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with internal and external project stakeholders. Actively engaging senior level support when required.
• Service design and delivery - creating and leading the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Demonstrating creativity and finding innovative solutions to delivery challenges. Effectively prioritise, change, adapt, iterate and improve at pace based on changing service priorities.

You'll have relevant experience in:

• Excellent communication skills, to be able to deliver complex information to high level delivery boards and senior leaders in a clear and concise manner. To be able to engage confidently and professionally with senior leaders and with a variety of stakeholders and governance forums.
• To be able to deliver at pace in a very fast-moving project with multiple priorities, being adaptable and flexible in their approach. Demonstrate responsibility for a diverse range of activities to manage the delivery of a project's objectives on a day-to-day basis, through the project lifecycle.
• Display exemplary Leadership to be able to support and upskill less experienced colleagues on the team with their experience and behaviours.
• Experience of working and delivering high level government projects and in enabling the smooth running of a project by applying sound project management disciplines/processes.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MSPO, SharePoint, MS Teams and Visio.

• A Project/Programme Management qualification Prince 2, Agile PM or PMP or equivalent.

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Rishon Reid

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.