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Project Manager

Employer
MTVH
Location
London (Greater)
Salary
£62,920 - £73,583
Closing date
29 Sep 2024
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Job Details

This Role: Project Manager - Full-Time Fixed Term Contract/ Internal Secondment (8 months minimum) - 37.5 hours per week

Location: Midlands NG9 1LA (Beeston) or London based with offices in EC1N 8JS (Hatton Garden) & TW1 3RP (Twickenham)

Salary Range: Midlands: £62,920 – £66,231 & London: £69,904 – £73,583

Overall Responsibility: As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing multiple project initiatives and delivery teams. Your role involves planning and managing the discovery and delivery of technical solutions within agreed timescales. You’ll collaborate with internal stakeholders to provide business improvement and project management support.

Key Responsibilities and Outcomes:

  • Oversee specific IT projects, monitoring progress, and reporting on progress to manage business expectations.
  • Provide expertise and leadership in project management methodologies (such as Prince2 or Agile PM) to ensure consistent delivery.
  • Guide third-party project managers engaged in delivering IT business projects.
  • Collaborate with our Suppliers, Applications Support Team, Infrastructure Team, Data Team and end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
  • Analyse and resolve issues that could impact performance or agreed-upon deliverables.
  • Provide change control for scope revisions.
  • Maintain interfaces and critical dependencies, regularly communicating project progress.
  • Deliver regular project status reports to the Portfolio, associated Project Boards and project teams, keeping the wider organisation informed via suitable internal communications.
  • Conduct post-implementation reviews, identifying follow-up actions and lessons learned.
  • Manage the project budget throughout the program lifecycle.
  • Lead and manage large teams, including developers, Business Analysts/Partners, external suppliers, contractors, and business resources.

Personal Competencies / Skills / Experience / Knowledge:

  • Experience of working in the social housing sector ideal but not essential
  • Demonstrable track record of successful implementation of medium to large scale Technology projects
  • Previous experience of managing project budgets of up to £1M
  • Experience of SCRUM, Agile
  • Qualified Prince 2 Practitioner
  • Experience of managing project teams through matrix management
  • Experience of liaising and communicating effectively with both key business stakeholders and IT Business partners.
  • Experience of working with complex business applications
  • As a minimum, a working knowledge of information security polices, processes and procedures
  • Delivered successful cross-functional information technology projects

Working knowledge or experience of: ICT Governance, assurance and audit, Risk Management, Portfolio Management, IT Systems Procurement, Business Relationship Management, Business Engagement, Demand Management, Programme and Project Management, Programme and Project Execution. 

Interview Diary Date: 3rd & 4th October 2024

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What’s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

  • 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
  • 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
  • An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
  • Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
  • Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
  • Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
  • Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
  • Cycle2work scheme
  • Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
  • Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
  • Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
  • Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
  • Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
  • Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
  • Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
  • LGBTQ+
  • Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Company

Welcome to MTVH!

Our organisation was built on a simple mission – to give people a safe, secure, and affordable home. That is as true today as it was in the 1950’s, when our founder Molly Huggins established on organisation to provide homes for Windrush migrants in London. Our core purpose I that “everyone should have a home and the chance to live well” To fulfil this vision, we work with partners to make our neighbourhoods – new and old - sustainable and vibrant places, where our customers want to live. We put people at the heart of everything we do and to guide is in every decision we make. Through managing more than 57,000 households we work at a scale that means our actions to achieve this have real impact.

We firmly believe that by serving people better every day, we will support a healthier, better cared for, and more prosperous society in the future. Like our founders before us, we will leave a lasting legacy for future generations. Our colleagues are crucial to our success in achieving this. Therefore, we are committed to investing in colleagues and creating the opportunity for them to develop. Our working environment has been designed to be one that brings out the very best in people.

We are a member of the National Housing Federation and the g15, which represents London’s 15 largest housing associations and houses one in 10 Londoners (www.g15london.org.uk).

We also offer a wide range of benefits:-

  • 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • In addition to annual leave a 'belief day' to be taken at a time of your choosing
  • 2 paid voluntary days to support your community
  • Smarter working is the MTVH approach to future working arrangements for colleagues registered as office-based to adapt to the needs of the customer.
  • Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
  • Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs
  • Enhanced pension with matched contributions up to a maximum of 9% contribution
  • Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • 'Nudge' financial wellbeing platform
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Access to extensive on-line training        
Company info
Website
Mini-site
MTVH
Telephone
0203 535 3611
Location
2nd Floor, The Grange
100 High Street
Southgate
London
London
N14 6PW
GB

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