Project Manager

Location

Remote | United Kingdom

Job description

Project Manager - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 3 months (possible extension)

Contracting Authority: DESNZ

Location: Hybrid working (2 days per month in London Office)

“Securing our long-term energy supply, bringing down bills and halving inflation”

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was created in February 2023 with the goal of securing a safe energy supply as well as ensuring the UK leads the way in achieving Net Zero.We are an innovative and exciting department, looking for the very best to lead the way.

The responsibilities for the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero for 2023 are as follows:

• Delivering security of energy supply
• Ensuring properly functioning energy markets
• Encouraging greater energy efficiency
• Seizing the opportunities of net zero to lead the world in new green industries

We encourage our colleagues to be bold, be collaborative, be inclusive and to be big on learning. If you want to take part in meaningful work that makes an impact in the UK as well as abroad, then look no further than the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.

Role purpose:

The department is looking to identify the requirements and best route to market for an improved digital data collection and reporting solution for home retrofit schemes, commonly referred to as the ‘Data Management System Version 2 (DMS V2)’. This is a requirement set out by the Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) for all new systems.

The DMS Discovery Work was led by the DENSZ Digital Team and completed in October 2023. The final report provides the department with recommendations to obtain DMS V2, the costings and requirements to provide the best value for money solution that meets the government’s needs.

The new tool, currently known as DRIP will be available to energy efficiency schemes, and aims to facilitate and encourage a large amount of join up between the schemes to:

• Enable cost savings
• Increase our ability to meaningfully compare schemes
• Increase our ability to leverage data from outside sources such as TrustMark and the Prior Measures Checker and
• Reduce the amount of resource needed to monitor the schemes

The tool:

• Key purpose is to help grant recipients (GRs) manage, monitor and assure their projects, and for DESNZ and its internal and external partners to do the same.
• Will allow our GRs (Local Authorities, Social Housing Landlords and retrofit installers and co-ordinators) to keep an accurate log of all homes they are currently validating, assessing, or treating (and the associated forecasts we hold them to). It will allow GRs to submit monthly reports on the progress of their scheme, as well as to lodge change requests. It will also allow them to check that work completed has been lodged in the TrustMark and MCS data warehouses, and that installers are TrustMark/MCS accredited, in order to reduce the likelihood of fraud.
• May also use the Cabinet Office Spotlight too to run national security checks on installers and delivery organisations.
• Will allow DESNZ, Salix Finance and any appointed external Delivery Partners to view the progress of each project or the schemes themselves in aggregate. Without it, DESNZ will not have visibility over or be able to effectively performance manage the schemes and ensure that they are VfM.
• Will also allow TrustMark sight of the pipeline of homes to be treated by our schemes, allowing them to forecast user numbers and to ensure that the number of homes lodged on their system matches DESNZ records.

The main duties and responsibilities of the Project Manager would be to:

• Manage the development of a new tool designed to allow energy efficiency grant scheme recipients to report on the progress of their scheme, working closely with the DESNZ Digital User Researcher and Data architect.
• Manage the procurement of an external partner to develop the tool, and to contract manage said partner.
• Ensure the tool successfully proceeds through alpha and beta stages, dealing with the relevant assurance and approvals along the way. (Following procurement or stand up of the development team)
• Oversee the user testing of the tool following development.
• Liaise with numerous teams across energy efficiency schemes to ensure various stakeholder needs are met. The teams include the policy teams, the delivery teams, the evaluation teams, the Department Digital team, the Net Zero Buildings Commercial team, the Net Zero Counter Fraud team, the Official Statistics team and the Consumer Advice and Information team.
• Ensure that lessons learned from previous schemes are implemented into the new tool, and that cross scheme efficiencies are realise

You’ll have:

• Experience with large scale digital projects
• Experience procuring digital products
• Experience of building strong and empathetic working relationships with a wide variety of teams, Whitehall departments and external stakeholders
• The ability to balance working priorities to achieve deadlines

It would be great if you also had:

• Experience working in energy policy area
• Experience working in public policy

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with [email protected]

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DESNZ 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.

Armed Forces Commitment

DESNZguarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, wewill interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on [email protected]

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.

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