IT Project Manager

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We are the independent regulator of higher education in England.

We aim to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. We also care about supporting and developing our staff, working together to achieve more than each of us can do alone.  

We're proud of our people, our culture and the benefits we offer. At the OfS we want to create a welcoming and engaging working environment which is free from discrimination. We particularly welcome applications from people with a disability or impairment, those who identify as lesbian, bisexual, gay or transgender, and those from a black, Asian and minority ethnic background, as these groups are under-represented within our workforce.

We're looking for skilled, committed people who care about students and their experience of higher education. Join us and you'll be part of an energetic, forward-looking organisation with high ambitions and big opportunities for our people,

Job Summary

The role of a IT Project Manager is to facilitate change management to the OfS by delivering IT projects to achieve the objectives of a newly defined Digital Strategy.  The post holder will be expected to project manage a range of projects of varying sizes and complexity using the agile methodology

Job Description

The aim of the role IT Project Manager is to facilitate change management at the OfS and deliver IT projects against timelines to support the delivery of the Digital Strategy.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Managing the whole lifecycle of IT Projects

Planning and scheduling project timelines

Resource planning and allocation

Managing project admin and associated documentation

Meeting budgetary objectives

Managing stakeholder relationships

Delivering IT projects in a timely manner

Develop detailed project plans to monitor and track progress

Perform project risk management

The key person attributes required to fulfil this role include: the ability to deliver projects against timeline; the ability to manage stakeholders and technical team; a broad understanding of key enabling technologies; the ability to communicate effectively and accurately; the ability to present and communicate with senior management; Strong analytical and numeric skills; excellent attention to detail; be organised and able to identify and prioritise work, a self-motivated team player.

About you

Are you an experienced project manager, passionate about the application of IT, ensuring technology is used to create business value? Do you have great interpersonal skills and an ability to influence outcomes? Are you skilled at shaping diverse resources into a successful delivery team? Then we would like to hear from you.

Our IT department is dynamic. It`s fast-paced, busy, and consistently challenging. We are a key partner in the organisation. So, if you`re looking for an exciting role in an interesting, friendly place, then please apply and tell us why we should work together.

The IT project manager will be responsible for the successful delivery of projects within a programme of work to support OfS processes.

You will:

Be skilled in project management methodologies, e.g., Scrum, Agile PM, Prince 2. Take a consistent and ongoing approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty, metrics and measurements, risk management, contingency planning, and road mapping.

Be experienced and or qualified in Agile project management and/or Prince 2

Have broad knowledge of core OfS IT technologies, preferably including:

Microsoft Azure, O365/Office, SharePoint, Teams

Microsoft Dynamics and workflow management

Have an understanding of cloud (‘X'AAS) service models

Have an understanding of IT security models and methodologies

Have an understanding of IT networking and infrastructure principals

Know how to communicate effectively across organisational, and technical boundaries, understanding the context. You can advocate and communicate what a project team does to create trust and authenticity.

Be able to communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts whilst focusing on user needs. For example, managing customer and supplier relationships, ensuring that recommendations deliver maximum benefit and facilitating workshops with stakeholders.

Know how to build successful delivery teams. You can ensure that the team works in a transparent way and that the work is understood externally. You can create an open and collaborative working environment; You can maintain delivery momentum. You can maintain the cadence of delivery and manage the relationships between different people within and across teams. You can solve issues and unblock problems. You know how to drive team and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments. You can engage in elements of risk management such as effectively managing and tracking the mitigation of risks, escalating as needed.

Focus on the outcome. You understand that all steps in a process must add value.

Be flexible, adaptable, proactive, self-motivated and have a willingness to learn.

The Office for Students currently uses enablers to evaluate your strengths and ask that your application describes what you've done and how you've done it. The enablers for this role are:

Knowledge & Skills

Thorough knowledge of an area of work, able to handle complex issues, and make broader connections. Knows how to interpret knowledge and develop delivery plan.

Bring together objective analysis from multiple sources of information.

Understand and interpret technical, complex analysis and apply it to area of work

Confidence to make decisions, challenge and make recommendations with scope for professional judgement.

Planning

Delivery focused

Able to manage priorities in a flexible and proactive manner

Risk management

Delegation, planning and horizon scanning

Uses judgement and initiative to solve frequent challenging problems

Autonomous thinking and working

Communications

Influencing and negotiation skills

Ability to challenge in difficult circumstances

Clear, concise and fluent communicator

Handles ambiguity

Relationships

Ability to lead projects with a high-quality output

Coaches and mentors

Developing and maintaining stakeholder relationships

Working for us

The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.

We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part time working, apply to this role.

Working arrangements

The OfS is trialling a hybrid model of working, a mixture of office and remote working., Staff can work up to 60% of their hours remotely, and 40% in the office, as well as some flexibility in core contact hours. We will provide the equipment and support to ensure that you can do that safely and securely.

Closing date for applications: 19 June 2022

Interviews: 30 June 2022