5-6 months contract with a local authority

Job Purpose

The initial focus of this role is to lead on developing a proposal for the creation of a town centre hub to be located primarily on the ground floor of the Council’s main town centre office base, Wat Tyler House East and West. This will require working with a number of directors and heads of service to identify the right services to be delivered from the hub, with consideration on how we can work with partner agencies to integrate and expand the offer.

Key Duties/Accountabilities

Review the project deliverables with the initial focus on the town centre hub with relevant directors and heads of service to gain a thorough understanding of the required output, and work up a project delivery plan to identify services in scope and key timelines.
Work up the engagement strategy and create and maintain project tracker documentation to include stakeholder mapping, timelines and project milestones.
Check and test requirements and consider and create innovative opportunities to optimize the project outputs.
Identify key requirements for services in scope in terms of space needs and enabling technology recognizing the need to ensure service provision is as effective and efficient as possible.
Ensure the project management and governance arrangements are structured to successfully deliver against the project(s) outcomes.

Essential Experience Required

Substantial experience of working in a senior project management role within a large organization dealing with significant business transformation projects.
Substantial experience in project management using leading methodologies and processes.
A strong negotiator, committed to achieving/facilitating sustainable outcomes for projects.
Comprehensive knowledge and interpretation of project management to adapt processes as needed and influence stakeholders to achieve the desired project(s) outcomes.
Experience of successfully working within multi-disciplinary teams, including senior managers and Members and other key stakeholders, including external partners.
A good understanding and experience of providing customer service hubs to service resident inquiries is needed, with the Council's town centre campus providing the base for the main hub.

Essential Qualification Required

Prince 2 Foundation and Practitioner qualified and significant equivalent work related experience preferred, but if a candidate does not have Prince 2 exceptional work related experience only will be considered.

Additional information to note

The role closes on 15th July 2025,

Workplace Resident Access Strategy Project Lead