Housing Management System Project Manager on a temporary basis. £29.17ph ref 16932 Full Time Temporary

Housing Management System Project Manager on a temporary basis. £29.17ph ref 16932

This is a hybrid role with the expectation to be in the office to meet business needs (minimum of 2 days per month).

The role

To main purpose of this role is to own the Housing Management System replacement project from inception, through procurement to delivery into live ensuring all rules are adhered to including change control, procurement and budget control.

Accountabilities

To be responsible for the successful delivery of the HMS project on time, budget and to quality standards. To monitor, report and review the management of the project.

To lead a medium sized procurement activity to ensure the correct product is purchased to meet the needs of the housing service.

To maintain a good working knowledge of housing services as applying to the project to ensure all relevant design questions are directly quickly to the relevant SME.

To carry out post implementation reviews, identifying further opportunities for benefits realisation.

Prepare detailed and realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and track activities, costs and resource usage against project schedules, providing regular reports to appropriate stakeholders and intervening to handle deviations from plan.

To liaise with service owners and senior management team to ensure that all elements of the project are understood and delivered in line with requirements and expectations and that they are communicated in an appropriate and timely manner.

To coordinate allocated resources (including Business Analysts and technical staff plus other services staff) to ensure clarity of expectations and tasks that need to be carried out.

To design and implement a rigorous training programme in conjunction with service subject matter experts and external contractors.

Ensure that this project is formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are recorded and socialised within the organisation.

Produce business cases for consideration by ICT related boards obtaining information from within the Council and external suppliers.

Identify, record and manage risks associated with the work, which are likely to be complex with significant impact, across more than one functional area and/or on partners

Represent the ICT service and Basildon Council at internal and external meetings as required.

Must be able to continue duties outside normal operating hours as required to support the Head of ICT, Resilience and Information Governance areas of responsibility.