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| Job Type | |
| Location | Corsham |
| Area | South West, UK |
| Sector | Programme & Project Management |
| Salary | £600 Outside IR35 |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | Leanne Howlett |
| Telephone | 07597378032 |
| Job Ref | LH-DOS-C4ISR |
- Description
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Closing date for applications Friday 21 September 2018
Latest start date Monday 15 October 2018
Expected contract length 12 Months + 6 Months (OPTION)
Location South West England, Corsham
Maximum day rate £600.00 outside IR35.
Specialist role Delivery manager
Summary of the work
Lead the team as the Microsoft Project SME within C4ISR and ALIS teams at MOD Corsham.
Impart knowledge, introduce processes and best practice into a reshaping team delivering capability into multiple areas.
An exciting opportunity to be part of an organisation working differently to the rest of the MOD.
Who the specialist will work with
ASDT are a dynamic and forward leaning organisation in the Ministry of Defence (MOD).
They are implementing and showcasing a change of approach in the MOD with organisational structure and are implementing AGILE into both project management and the technical space.
The C4ISR, ALIS and Legacy Med IS groups require a skilled specialist who is also willing to impart knowledge to a group that is able to listen and adjust to advice.
This team are about to undergo some significant challenges and introduce new capability to the MOD.
What the specialist will work on The Project Controls Manager will provide:
a. Production of reporting detail on status and quality of project plans on a monthly basis.
b. Providing evidence to support robust governance/reporting ensuring consistent regular submissions to ISS & SRO.
c. Ensuring Risk and Resource adjusted plans are produced and provide evidence for decision making. Identifying shortfalls in resources utilising technical and project management staff.
d. Effective planning and scheduling. Monitoring and development of delivery schedule.Maintaining quality of schedule to meet ISS policy standards.
e. Support to timely business/commitment case generation.
f. Effective stakeholder management and documentation as required.
Working arrangements The specialist will be expected to work full time (240 days per year).
The Corsham delivery team works in an Agile Scrum environment.
Security clearance
Current SC clearance is required
Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.
Essential skills and experience
1. Proven experience in working within a programme of similar size and complexity - 10 points
2. Expert level user of Microsoft Enterprise Project Management solution with experience of managing programme dependencies, baselining and tracking - 10 points
3. Evidence of producing EPM plans against AGILE projects and can circumvent or overcome the associated challenges - 10 points
4. Workshopping; ability to lead small to medium sized groups of stakeholders to extract relevant schedule information to feed into schedules - 5 points
5. The ability to work under pressure and adhere to challenging timescales - 5 points
6. Proven organisational skills - 10 points
7. Strong analytical skills - 5 points
8. Excellent communication skills - 5 points
9. Reporting; ability to gather, analyse and present accurate, consistent messages to senior management boards - 5 points
10. Experience in liaising with industry partners - 5 points
11. Experience of dealing with remote groups of stakeholders and managing expectations and communications between disparate groups - 10 points
12. Experience in working in a large scale change programme - 10 points
13. Demonstration of working on a large scale technical project / programme - 5 points
Nice-to-have skills and experience
1. Ability to understand programme objectives and proactively link these to scheduling and risk management functions - 5 points
2. IT literate, with experience of Microsoft Office 365 including SharePoint - 5 points
3. Working with the MOD - 5 points
Cultural fit criteria
· Works to agile methodology - 20 points
· Have experience in working within a team that covers multiple organisations - 20 points
· Be customer oriented - 15 points
· Shares knowledge, experience and expertise with other team members - 15 points
· Communicates clearly - 10 points
· Have strong stakeholder management skills - 10 points
· Be transparent and collaborative - 10 points
