School Project Manager - Children’s Services
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset | United Kingdom
Job description
What's involved with this role:
Interim School Project Manager - Children’s Services
Reference no: Bournemouth 5246022
Pay Rate: £250.00 per day PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: BOURNEMOUTH
Hybrid role with some working from Civic centre in Bournemouth and some homeworking
Support the Schools Programme Manager to deliver changes and improvements to schools’ premises, ensuring that project plans are executed as instructed.
Key Responsibilities
Be responsible for the performance, progress and timeliness of Children’s Services projects in line with good practice and statutory requirements ensuring buildings comply with current legislation.
Working with local school leaders and governors/trusts, represent the service in a client liaison role and act as champion for the delivery of projects, coordinating various elements and ensuring that the educational requirements of the project are well defined.
Working with project teams, ensure there is a clear delivery strategy and robust arrangements are in place for feasibility, design management, procurement, and execution of projects and facilitate and coordinate complex and specialist advice on a range of issues within set guidelines.
Ensure that the input of support services to projects including property, finance, legal is co-ordinated, that necessary documents are prepared and finalised including preparing project documentation.
Providing client-side project management support during all stages of the project delivery lifecycle for a range of schemes.
Ensuring that project briefs are developed, reviewed and updated and that all of the viable options have been properly evaluated and costed and the recommended option meets the user needs.
Attending site meetings and supporting regular project progress meetings, chairing as necessary, receiving reports on project and commercial progress as required and removing barriers by communicating openly.
Ensuring that pre-contract design development and post-contract scope changes and implications on quality, cost and time are managed and approved in line robust change control processes and satisfies the Council’s objectives.
Ensuring that users and other stakeholders are committed to the project and its outcomes and take a proactive approach to a complex case load, understanding different customer needs and contribute to the resolution of contentious issues.
Attending site meetings and support regular project progress meetings, chairing as necessary, receiving reports on project and commercial progress as required and remove barriers by communicating openly.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Degree qualified, preferably in the built environment and commensurate professional experience
PRINCE 2 / PMP / RICS or equivalent project management qualification or equivalent professional experience
Must be able to travel, using public or other forms of transport where they are viable, or by holding a valid UK driving licence with access to own or pool car.
Knowledge:
Specialised knowledge and skills across a range of sectors/service areas (including schools/education, legal and regulatory requirements and the risks of non-compliance) gained through extensive experience in several complex and demanding roles, including broader commercial awareness
Thorough knowledge of effective change and stakeholder management principles gained through extensive experience
Experience:
Experience of managing budgets, resources and funding within the context of Local Government and the future plans of the council
Experience of and ability to build lasting client relationships and lead strong, motivated teams.
Have a construction or project management background and thorough knowledge of project management gained through extensive experience
Skills & Abilities:
Ability to build sound working relationships quickly.
High level of resilience, attention to detail, emotional intelligence, calm under pressure.
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Job Ref: Bournemouth 5246022
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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