Senior Project Manager x 3

The Transformation and Change Division sits within the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Group within UK Export Finance. The Division is responsible for delivery of, and assurance of, the Transformation and Change Plan, the portfolio of change within UK Export Finance.

The Transformation and Change Plan covers the next 18 months of project and programme delivery and forecasts out by a further 18 months, covering Policy, Process, Digital and Technology change, focussing on delivering the Business Plan and new Target Operating Model.

The role of the Senior Project Manager is to lead / manage the project and the project team on a day-to-day basis. The Senior Project Manager is responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of the project to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints. The Senior Project Manager has a key role in project governance and working with stakeholders, to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised.

Main Activities

The key responsibilities will be:

• Delivery – Create and lead the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Project Management – Day-to-day management and leadership of the project and the project team. Provide effective leadership and management controls. Set project controls. Design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage. Set appropriate delivery methodologies. Manage effective transition between project phases.
• Business Case – Develop and draft the business case, with input from specialists as necessary.
• Budget – Develop the budget and track delivery within budget.
• Resources – Identify skill requirements; and deploy and develop resources. Manage medium sized team.
• Benefits Realisation – Deliver the agreed business case benefits and outcomes. Ensure appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place, and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the business case.
• Stakeholder Management – Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support. Manage internal and external relationships as appropriate.
• Risks & Issues – Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate. Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependencies.
• Governance – Support effective governance and decision making. Provide reporting and engage in mechanisms that hold you, as Senior Project Manager, to account for delivery.
• Assurance – Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations. Organise assurance processes such as gateway reviews, as required.
• Change Management – Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.
• Guidance & Support – Provide support, guidance and coaching for the project team. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance.
• Project Performance & Controls – Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team. Develop and maintain Project Plan. Identify and set appropriate Project Controls. Manage performance and report progress to sponsors.

This list is not exhaustive, and you may be required to carry out additional duties according to business needs.

• Qualification (hold 2 or more of the below)
• PRINCE2 Practitioner
• Agile Project Management Practitioner
• APM Project Management Qualification
• APM Chartered Project Professional
• Project Leadership Programme
• PMI Project Management Professional
• Leading and Managing Project Workstreams
• Government GOST accreditation

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)

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Please ensure that you read through the Candidate Information Pack attached to this advert, before applying.

All applications will be sifted against our essential criteria outlined in the personal specification.

• Qualification (hold 2 or more of the below)
• PRINCE2 Practitioner
• Agile Project Management Practitioner
• APM Project Management Qualification
• APM Chartered Project Professional
• Project Leadership Programme
• PMI Project Management Professional
• Leading and Managing Project Workstreams
• Government GOST accreditation
• Behaviour statement - 250 word statement on Delivering at Pace
• Statement of suitability - you should fully articulate in 750 words how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification within the Information Pack making use of the Project Delivery Capability Framework – pages 33, 138, 139.

In the event of a high volume of applications there will be a pre-sift on the behaviour statement: Delivering at Pace.

For the initial sift your application will be evaluated against:

• Experience - Application and Statement of Suitability
• Behaviours - 250-word statement on Delivering at Pace

Following the sift, successful applicants will be invited to attend an initial technical interview; to be held via MS Teams and this will be based on several technical questions relevant to the role.

If you are successful following the initial technical interview, you will be invited to a second stage interview, to be held onsite at 1 Horse Guards Road or via MS Teams; this will include the following assessment:

• Behaviours/Experience/Line Manager Standards - a formal panel interview where you will be interviewed across all five behaviours highlighted in Appendix 1.
• Technical - A 10-minute presentation followed by a Q&A based on a topic determined by UKEF and will need to be prepared in advance, the details of this will be provided to the relevant candidates.
• Technical Questions relevant to the role

Details of interview panel members will be e-mailed to all successful candidates who are invited for interview.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.