Digital Project Manager - Maternity Cover

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London WC1 and home-based

35 hours per week, full-time

Fixed-term contract for 12 months

The Digital Project Manager is an important role as you will be responsible for discovering new opportunities for software development and ensuring that the College's systems are delivered and supported in such a way as to meet our strategic aims. Maintaining integration between systems is paramount to the College's business requirements.

As Digital Project Manager, you will have have direct responsibility for executing multi-disciplinary projects, including liaising with external software suppliers and developers to ensure contracted work is undertaken to specified requirements, whilst carrying out negotiations on contract renewals.

Reporting to the Head of Digital Programmes, you will contribute to the Digital strategy, the Digital Operational Plan and Digital Programmes yearly budgeting as appropriate. You will also provide business analysis and requirements capture roles, documenting and tracking progress throughout the project lifecycle and preparing reports for the relevant programme boards.

Degree educated or with equivalent professional experience, you should have excellent project management skills, evidenced by a recent and successful track record in project management.

With a good understanding of formal methods and the ability to write up user requirements and software test plans, you should also have experience of Wordpress and be familiar with web, web services and DB technology.

Your excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with your outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, will ensure you are able to motivate, influence and gain the support of others and to maintain and enhance collaborative working relationships across the College.

Excellent stakeholder management and information management skills, along with the ability to develop and manage systems for recording and storing information and data are essential.

Experience of managing delivery from third party suppliers, including monitoring operational standards and a background in technical development, e.g., HTML, CSS, or PHP would be desirable.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health sets and maintains standards for the education and training of all doctors working in paediatrics and child health in the UK. We advocate on child health issues at home and internationally. Additionally, through a variety of activities, the College influences the quality of medical practice for children in hospital and in the community.

The RCPCH has more than 21,000 members and fellows and employs around 170 staff, most of whom work in our London office in Holborn.

The RCPCH wants to represent all the communities we serve. Appointment will be made solely on merit. However, the College is particularly keen to receive applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, and/or candidates with a disability who are currently under-represented at this level of the organisation.

The College operates a flexible and modern working policy, whereby our colleagues work in the office for a minimum of 40% over a 4 week cycle and the remainder from home.